Amanda Lipitz

Amanda Lipitz is an award winning producer, writer and director. Her directorial debut and first feature-length documentary, STEP, premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking. Lipitz’s second documentary, FOUND, which she directed and produced with Impact Partners and Kindred Spirit Productions, was released on Netflix in October of 2021. Amanda co-created and directed MOTHERHACKER, a scripted podcast with Gimlet Media and Spotify starring Carrie Coon, and which has recently dropped its second season.

Her Broadway producing credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde the Musical, The Performers, A View From the Bridge (Tony Award, Best Revival) and The Humans (Tony Award, Best Play). Off Broadway, Amanda developed and produced Brooklynite at The Vineyard Theatre. On television, Amanda served as executive producer and creator of MTV's groundbreaking series "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods."

Lipitz graduated with a BFA in theater from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and currently lives in New York City with her husband and three children.