FILM & WRITING AWARDS
2020 - Undeveloped Script | Winner | Cabin Fever
Screenwriters and Actors of Hollywood Script Contest
2020 - Undeveloped Script | Quarter Finalist | Clowns in the Kitchen
TSL Free Screenplay Contest
2020 - Undeveloped Script | Winner | Cabin Fever
Hollywood Screenwriters & Actors Script Contest
2019 - Diversity Scholarship Recipient
Upright Citizens Brigade
2019 - Undeveloped Script | Quarter Finalist | Ethereality
Screencraft Film Fund
2018 - Best Technique | Nominated | Ethereality
Monkey Bread Tree Film Festival
2015 - Best Student Film | Winner | Sumtin' Like 'Dat
Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
2015 - Official Selection | Sumtin' Like 'Dat
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival
THEATER AWARDS
2012 - Ovation Award - Los Angeles Stage Alliance
Best Fight Choreography
Hearts Like Fists
Theater of Note
2012 - LA Weekly Theater Award
Best Fight Choreography
Hearts Like Fists
Theater of Note
Best Production Design (Fight and Stunt Choreography)
Stoneface
Sacred Fools Theatre
Production of the Year (Fight and Stunt Choreography)
Stoneface
Sacred Fools Theatre
2012 - Scenie Award - Stage Scene Los Angeles
Best Fight Choreography
Hearts Like Fists
Theater of Note
Best Fight Choreography
Stoneface
Sacred Fools Theatre
2001 - Founder's Award
Society of American Fight Directors
Best Unarmed Fight
2001 - Examiner's Award for Excellence
Society of American Fight Directors
Hand-to-Hand Combat
Rapier & Dagger
Broadsword
ATHLETIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1999 - 2-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Chicago Sport & Social Club
1998 - 2-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Whale of Spike
1997 4-Man Beach Volleyball Tournament Champion | Professional Division
Chicago Sport & Social Club
1986 - Gold Medal | Ice Hockey | Team USA
Asian Games
CRITICAL REVIEWS
Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini @ Sacred Fools Theatre
“Andrew Amani, once again, proves himself a stunt/fight choreographer par excellence …"
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
“Andrew Amani’s choreography was beautiful and sets the bar for a good fight in Los Angeles.”
Kat Michaels, Culver City News
Dead Man’s Cell Phone @ International City Theater
“One of the highlights of the production is a superbly choreographed fight.”
Arts in LA
“A salute must go to Andrew Amani, the no-holds-barred fight coordinator.”
Ingrid Wilmot, Will Call
“...fight choreographer extraordinaire Andrew Amani has designed a knock-down drag-out confrontation between Jean and character known only as The Stranger that is one of the his best - and funniest”
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
Neverwhere @ Sacred Fools Theatre
“The fight choreography: Wow- Was this unexpected! I’ve been to many plays featuring fighting, but when the Hunter appeared on the stage, the battles became amazing! Major kudos to Andrew Amani! Overall grade: A+”
Sci-Fi Pulse
Hearts Like Fists @ Theater of Note
“...feet and lethal weapons fly, thanks to Andrew Amani’s witty fight choreography.”
Charlotte Stoudt, LA Times
“No small part of the comedy springs from fight choreographer Andrew Amani’s smartly calibrated staging.”
Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly
“As for those fight sequences, expertly choreographed by Andrew Amani, they are as high-energy and precision as they come.”
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton @ Sacred Fools Theatre
“The physical inventiveness is always top-notch … for the movement and staging it seems I have my choice of which artist to complement, from director Jamie Robledo … to stunt/fight choreographer Andrew Amani.”
Brian Sonia-Wallace, LA Theatre Review
“It would be difficult to care about Keaton’s decline without Andrew Amani’s stunt choreography … nearly continuous pratfalls and hilarious choreographed bits keep the play alive ...”
Travis Michael Holder, Backstage Review
“Physically, the production owes much to it’s talented team of designers.”
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA