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- ↑ Glenn Sumi, "Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Amanda Cordner". Now , April 5, 2022.
- ↑ Ann Marie Collymore, "Inside The World Of Sort Of With Actress Amanda Cordner". ByBlacks, November 27, 2022.
- ↑ Andrea Warner, "Body So Fluorescent takes a poetic, heartbreaking, but funny look at the two sides of a "We're done" text message". The Georgia Straight , June 3, 2019.
- ↑ Glenn Sumi, "RISER Project review: Wring The Roses". Now , May 10, 2019.
- ↑ Liz Braun, "Slo Pitch a hit right off the bat". Toronto Sun , July 19, 2020.
- ↑ Karen Fricker and Carly Maga, "Putting Black futures on centre stage: Black theatre students offer their responses to theatre project". Toronto Star , February 28, 2021.
- ↑ Noel Ransome, "2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: TV drama ‘The Porter’ leads with 19 nods". Global News, February 22, 2023.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Memoir, short story collection, and play named 2023 Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists". Quill & Quire , September 13, 2023.
