Amanda Parris is a Canadian broadcaster and writer. An arts reporter and producer for the

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, she hosts the

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series ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' From the Vaults'', and the

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radio series '' Marvin's Room''.Chaka V. Grier
"Local hero: Amanda Parris returns with Marvin's Room and Exhibitionists"
'' Now'', November 2, 2016. She was cohost with

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of the

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. ''Other Side of the Game'', her debut as a theatrical playwright, was staged by Toronto's

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and Cahoots Theatre in 2017. After it was published in book form, it won the

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at the

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, is a short, filmed, stage monodrama set in the near-future where premature Black death is an inevitability. Commissioned by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu,

s’s artistic director, for '' 21 Black Futures'', an anthology series featuring 21 Black playwrights which began streaming on CBC Gem in February 2021. ''The Death News'' responds to the question “What is the future of Blackness?” Parris was inspired by TV and radio broadcasts in Grenada, where hosts provide information on who has died and funeral details. Parris imagined her work as a tool of resistance to mainstream media and its failure to tell nuanced stories of Black people. Prior to joining the CBC, Parris co-founded Lost Lyrics with Natasha Daniels, an arts education program that used theatre, dance, poetry, film and music to reach youth at risk of dropping out of school. In 2022, she was named alongside Kathleen Newman-Bremang and

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as one of the recipients of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's inaugural Changemaker Award at the

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. She also received a nomination for Best Host, Talk Show or Entertainment News as the host of ''Exhibitionists'', and won the award for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series for "The Death News".Brent Furdyk
"Canadian Screen Awards: Winners Announced In Sports Programming, Digital & Immersive Categories"
''

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'', April 5, 2022. In 2022 she created the comedy web series ''Revenge of the Black Best Friend''.Radheyan Simonpillai
"Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Amanda Parris"
'' Now'', April 3, 2022.

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