Our next employee focus is on Amanda Saufley. Amanda is the Performance Manager for Sipe Center.
Employee: Amanda Saufley
When citizens see you around town, what are you most likely to be doing? Walking my dog at Riverwalk.
Favorite part of your job? Seeing all the live performances at Sipe Center and working with so many talented performers!
Least favorite part of your job? Cleaning up popcorn crumbs!
Favorite food? Red Thai Curry.
Favorite movie book? The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
Favorite website? Food52.
Favorite sports team musical? Hadestown.
What do you like to do when you’re not working? Gardening, cycling, reading, seeing live theatre, going to cruise-ins with my husband in his hot rod.
If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? Japan.
If you could meet anyone from history, who would it be? Hallie Flanagan, director of the Federal Theatre Project under the Works Project Administration during the 1930s.
What is something nobody knows about you? As a teenager, my dad and I worked on restoring an orange 1973 Volkswagen Thing. I learned how to drive stick shift in the Thing with the top down and doors off. I miss that car and would buy it back if I ever find it!
If we could attract any business we wanted to Bridgewater, what would it be? An independent bookstore!