Andy Bragen, a graduate of Brown University's MFA Program in Literary Arts, is the winner of the 2008 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. Other honors include a Tennessee Williams Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Commission, a New Voices Fellowship from EST, and a Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Andy attended the 2004 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference where he worked on Spuyten Duyvil. Greater Messapia was produced at Queens Theatre in the Park in March 2004 as part of the theatre's Immigrant Voices Project. Sweet Dreams of Paris received a workshop production in February 2005 as part of the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival. Food Porn received a workshop production at Brown in April 2006. Andy's other plays and translations have been seen and heard at numerous theatres in New York and elsewhere, including Ars Nova, The Guthrie Theatre, Theatre Mu, Rattlestick, LAByrinth, EST, PS122, The Lark, NYU's hotINK Festival, Repertorio Espanol, Soho Think Tank, The Playwrights Center, Page Seventy three Productions and the Flea Theater. As a translator, Andy works directly from French and Spanish, and with co-translators from the Japanese.
Andy holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins. Subsequently, he studied with the playwright Tina Howe at Hunter College where he was the recipient of the John Golden Award and the Zarkower award for playwriting.
Andy has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Rochester, and Marymount College. He will teach playwriting this autumn at the University of the South in Sewanee Tennessee.
A native New Yorker, Andy lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.