Amanda Freyer, a native of Berlin, began her career in theater after studying politics and history at the Freie Universität Berlin and costume design at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. She has designed costumes for Also sprach Zarathustra at the Theater Oblomov in Berlin, for the ballet The Green Knight at the Staatstheater Saarbrucken, and for the dance piece Distance of the Moon in Vienna and for the 2005 short film Stella. She designed both scenery and costumes for the musical Zwei Frauen und sechs Männer and for Konrad aus der Konservenbüchse at the Landestheater Esslingen. She has designed costumes for several productions staged by her father, Achim Freyer, including Schumann's opera Genoveva, seen at the Staatsoper Leipzig and at the Vienna Festwochen; Haydn's L'Anima del Filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice and Salvatore Sciarrino's Macbeth at the Schwetzinger Festival; Handel's Ariodante at the Städtischen Bühnen of Frankfurt am Main and also seen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; La Traviata at the National Theater, Mannheim; and Eugene Onegin at the Staatsoper Berlin.