Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Amia Korman is a junior in the Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Heidi Grant Murphy pursuing a BS in Voice Performance with an Outside Field in Musical Theatre and a minor in Arts Management. IU acting credits include Into the Woods (Rapunzel, u/s Jack’s Mother), The Well of Horniness (The Conspirator), Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman, u/s Lovett), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Schwartzy). Other favorite credits include Les Misérables (Éponine), The Little Mermaid (Ariel), Peter and the Starcatcher (Molly), and an early Lincoln Center workshop of Mary & Max: The Musical (Young Mary).

Directing credits include The Vagina Monologues and Fishbowl, as well as two of Amia's authored plays, I Love My Friends and Nice Jewish Boy, both of which premiered as Independent Projects in 2022. Amia has served as a director for the 2022 and 2023 Undergrad Shorts (At First Sight Festival of New Plays), as well as the executive producer of the latter. Their work as a playwright and lyricist has been featured in both years. This fall, Amia's newest work, Lolita Play, will premiere as part of the University Players 2023-2024 season.

Outside of the theatrical world, Amia writes, records and releases music under their continuous artist project as Amia K. Their work has received national recognition in competitions such as the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and the Unsigned Only Songwriting Competition.

Above all, Amia strives to create works of multi-disciplinary art defined by precision, empathy and color. They believe in the act of creating as a means of communal healing and revelation, utilizing music, text, and rehearsal spaces as playgrounds of comfort and terror from which to cultivate beauty and truth.