July 2008: Mother Earth to be workshopped at Minneapolis' Playlabs Conference.
July 2008: In Spite of the Devil (Formerly Spuyten Duyvil) to be produced at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep.
April 2008: Awarded commission to write new play for the University of Rochester's International Theatre Program
April 2008: Vengeance Can Wait to be produced at PS122 by Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Best of the Boroughs Festival. For more info:
http://www.ps122.org/performances/vengeance_can_wait.html
April 2008: Mother Earth semifinalist for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference.
March 2008: Awarded 2008-2009 Tennessee Williams Fellowship at Sewanee: The University of The South.
February 2008: Events with Life's Leftovers, a translation, receives reading as part of the Global Age Project at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, California. Director: Tom Bentley.
February 2008: Mother Earth selected as semifinalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
February 2008: Reading of Mother Earth with P73 Productions. Cast: Michael Chernus, Zabryna Guevara, Dick Latessa, Marsha Mason, Paul O'Brien and Brenda Wehle. Director: Jackson Gay.
February 2008: Reading of Vengeance Can Wait with Theatre Mu in Minneapolis.
February 2008: Reprise of the Dreamscapes project at the Jazz Gallery.
December 2007: Dreamscapes, a collaboration with jazz saxophonist John Ellis, premieres at the Jazz Gallery, New York City, December 21st and 22nd, 2007. For video from the project, click here.
December 2007: Events with Life's Leftovers, a translation, selected for Global Age Project at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, California.
December 2007: Mother Earth selected as semifinalist for Playlabs.
November 2007: Reading/workshop of Veronica Bujeiro's The Sadness of The Limes, translated by Andy Bragen. Director: Alex Correia.
November 2007: Reading/workshop of Andy's American Adaptation of Ai Nagai's Women in a Holy Mess at the Playwrights Center, directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon.
October 2007: Winner of Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission.
October 2007: Reading of Japanese co-translation, Vengeance can Wait, at the Guthrie Theatre.
September 2007: Commission to co-translate Japanese play by Ai Nagai for the Playwrights Center.
September 2007: Commission to translate Veronica Bujeiro's La Tristeza de los Citricos for the 2007 Lark US - Mexico Playwrights Exchange.
September 2007: Participant in the Outlet, with Electric Pear Productions, to work on a new play, Visiting Day. Cast: Robin Galloway and Paul Coffey.
September 2007: Spuyten Duyvil reading with Id Theatre. Directed by Jackson Gay. Cast: Denis Butkus, Susannah Flood, Ed Hyland and Alfredo Narciso.
August 2007: Heirloom, a monologue, to be published in Applause Books' The Best Men’s Monologues of the Millennium, due out in Spring 2008.
August 2007: Semifinalist for P73 Fellowship.
August 2007: Reading of Sweet Dreams of Paris with the Woodshed Collective.
July 2007: Co-translator with Kyoko Yoshida of Like a Butterfly, My Nostalgia by Masataka Matsuda, workshopped at .the Playlabs Conference. Director: Lisa Peterson. Cast: Jim Lichtschteidl and Annie Enneking.
May 2007: Invited to join P73 Writers' Group.
April 2007: Reading of Mother Earth at Illusion Theater.April 2007: Semifinalist for New Dramatists Admission.
April 2007: Production of Water, a short play for a child, as part of the Chicago Avenue Project, at the Pillsbury House Theater.
March 2007: Reading of Lazy at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Director: Louis Moreno. Cast: Quincy Bernstine, Frank Liotti, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Andres Munar, Grant Neil, and Tommy Schrider.
March 2007: Round-table reading of Mother Earth at Lark Theatre.
March 2007: Semifinalist for 2007 Playlabs Conference with Food Porn.
February 2007: Reading of Food Porn at Emigrant Theater. Director: Jef Hall-Flavin. Cast: Maren Bush, Phil Callen, Maggie Chestovich, Andrew Hovelson and Ann Kim.January 2007: Reading of Food Porn at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Director: Louis Moreno. Cast: Michael Chernus, Crystal Finn, Suli Holum, Greg Keller and Nurit Monacelli.
December 2006: Rehearsal workshop/reading of Lazy at the Playwrights Center. Director: Noel Raymond. Dramaturg: Polly Carl. Cast: John Catron, Nathan Christopher, Jeany Park, Emily Gunyou, Terry Hempleman, and Steve Hendrickson.
November 2006: Semifinalist for Cherry Lane Alternative with Food Porn.
October 2006: Translator of Events with Life's Leftovers by Alberto Villarreal Diaz, being workshopped at the Lark Theatre as part of their US - Mexico Playwrights Exchange.
September 2006: In residence at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis for a 2006-2007 Jerome Fellowship.
August 2006: In residence at the Millay Colony.
July 2006: Co-translator and dramaturg for Vengeance can Wait, a Japanese play by Yukiko Motoya, at the Playlabs Conference.June 2006: Participation as resident playwright in 2006 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
May 2006: Presentation of Game, Set, Match, a short play, in Take Five with Clubbed Thumb. Performed by Tom Lipinski. Director: Mallory Catlett
April 2006: Workshop production of Food Porn in the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival. Cast: Morgan Dover-Pearl, Crystal Finn, Alexander Platt, Tom Schwans, and Emily Young. Director: Geordie Broadwater.March 2006: Andy awarded a 2006-2007 Jerome Fellowship by the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.
February 2006: Andy awarded summer residency at the Millay Colony.
January 2006: Lazy reading in NYU's hotINK festival. Cast: Robert Devaney, Carla Harting, Courtney Hoffman, Ed Jewett, Brandon Miller, and Garrett Neergaard. Director: Jonathan Silverstein.October 2005: Blood and Flowers, a play-in-progress, selected as a finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission.
October 2005: Workshop of Unfinished Business with the A.R.T. MFA actors. Reading at Brown University's McCormack Family Theatre. Director: Dmitry Troyanovsky. Dramaturg: John Herndon. Cast: Mariko Barajas, Teniqua Crawford, Christian Roulleau and Sean Simbro.August 2005: Lazy reading at the Vortex Theater in Chelsea. Director: Louis Moreno. Cast: Raymond Bokhour, Corinne Colon, Jan Leslie Harding, Andres Munar, Alfredo Narciso, and Tommy Schrider.
February 2005: Sweet Dreams of Paris received a workshop production as part of the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival. The director was Birgitta Victorson. Cast: Charlie Hudson III, Tom Lipinski, Jordan Reeves, Josh Shulruff, Heather Wood, Emily Young.December 2004: Lazy, selected for Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series, received a three day workshop in the Ohio Theatre's upstairs space, culminating in a reading. The director was Cat Cooper. Cast: Quincy Bernstine, Drew Bonadio, Jack Ferver, Laura Kindred, Tommy Schrider and Daniel Zippi.
December 2004: Reading of Spuyten Duvyil at Ars Nova, as part of Underwood Theatre's "Out Loud" series. Director: James Abar. Cast: Guy Boyd, Denis Butkus, Corinne Colon and Tommy Schrider .
October 2004: Reading of 243 at Repertorio Español. Director: James Abar. Cast: Elisa Bocanegra, Aysan Celik, Corinne Colon, Michael Lopez, Jack Marks, Nurit Monacelli, Gerardo Rodriguez and Tommy Schrider.
September 2004: 243 designated a finalist in Repertorio Español's Nuestras Voces Playwriting Competition. There will be a reading in October 2004.
July 2004: Reading of Spuyten Duyvil at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Cast: Robert Ari, Denis Butkus, Sharon Freedman, and Gian-Murray Gianino.
June 2004: Spuyten Duyvil workshopped at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, in McCall, Idaho, in June 2004. James Abar directed, and Louis Geddes was the dramaturg. Cast: Denis Butkus, Sharon Freedman, Cody Hyslop and Sam McMurray.
March 2004: Awarded Lucille Lortel Fellowship to attend Brown University MFA playwriting program, class of 2006. The program starts in September 2004.
March 2004: Reading of Spuyten Duyvil with LAByrinth Theater Company, directed by Paula Pizzi. Cast: Carlo Alban, Renee Brown, Scott Hudson, and Richard Petrocelli.
March 2004: Greater Messapia produced at Queens Theatre in the Park. The show opened on March 18, and ran for ten performances over two weekends. Jonathan Silverstein was the director. Visit the production page for more details.January 2004: Andy awarded 2004 EST/Sloan Commission for Beach's Vision, a play which will explore the life of inventor and publisher Alfred Ely Beach, best known for his construction of a pneumatic subway line in downtown Manhattan in 1870.
January 2004: Reading of Mosesville in the 2004 hotINK festival. Director: Davis McCallum. Cast: Robert Ari, Kathryn Foster, Tom Ligon, Ruth Maleczech, John-Andrew Morrison, Jim Parsons, and Tommy Schrider.
December 2003: Formaldehyde designated a finalist in the Clayton State Theater International Playwriting Competition.
November 2003: Concert reading of 243, at Ensemble Studio Theatre as part of their New Voices Fellowship Reading Series. Director: Jamie Richards. Cast: Victoria Cartagena, Veronica Cruz, Melissa Delaney-Del Valle, Dawn Evans, Richmond Hoxie, Michael Lopez, Tommy Schrider, and Felix Solis.
September 2003: Table Reading of Spuyten Duyvil, with Robert Ari, Aysan Celik, John-Andrew Morrison and Tommy Schrider.
July 2003: Residency at Ensemble Studio Theatre's Lexington Center to work on 243.
June 2003: Awarded New Voices Fellowship for 243, by Ensemble Studio Theatre.
May 2003: Reading at the Ohio Theatre of translations of Bernard-Marie Koltes' Back to The Desert, and Tabataba. The cast included Leslie Lyles and Daniel Zippi.
May 2003: Reading of Mosesville, at the Nagelberg Theatre at Baruch College, directed by Ron Orbach, with Josh Alexander, Robert Ari, Tessa Auberjonois, Shawn Elliott, Derek Manson, Jim Parsons, and Barbara Spiegel.
February 2003: Table Reading of 243, with Raymond Bokhour, Aysan Celik, Veronica Cruz, Jennifer Morris, John-Andrew Morrison, Tommy Schrider, and Andrea Thome.
February 2003: Reading of Greater Messapia at Queens Theatre in the Park, as part of their Immigrant Voices Reading Series. Directed by Davis McCallum, with Roger Babb, Raymond Bokhour, Aysan Celik, Veronica Cruz, Jennifer Morris, Paula Pizzi, Tommy Schrider, and Patrick Turner.
November 2002: Table Reading of Mosesville, with Joanna P. Adler, Aysan Celik, Robert Devaney, Maria Dizzia, Tom Ligon, John-Andrew Morrison, and Trevor Oswalt.
October 2002: Artist Residency at Blue Mountain Center.
August 2002: Table Reading of Mosesville, at the Lark Playwrights Workshop with Gregory Bratman, Venida Evans, Jack Ferver, Tom Ligon, Jordin Ruderman, and Jeremy Webb.
July/August 2002: Lazy included in Theatre of NOTE late-night series, Los Angeles, California.
June 2002: Three day rehearsal workshop of Mosesville, scenes from Act 1, at the Lark Playwrights Workshop, directed by Davis McCallum, with Gregory Bratman, Kathryn Foster, and Leslie Lyles.
June 2002: Reading at the Dramatists Guild, of translations of Bernard-Marie Koltes' Back to The Desert, and Tabataba, with Vanessa Aspillaga, Quincy Bernstine, Michael Chernus, Robert Devaney, Ahmed El-Motassem, Jack Ferver, Ty Jones, Mohamed Maftahi, Jennifer Morris, John-Andrew Morrison, Andy Powers, Alicia Roper, Afaf Shawwa, and Daniel Zippi.
May 2002: Invited by Arthur Kopit to join the second cycle of the Lark Playwrights Workshop.
May 2002: Reading of Lazy at the Dramatists Guild, as part of the Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Directed by Davis McCallum, with Joanna P. Adler, Jack Ferver, Hollis Witherspoon, and Daniel Zippi.
April 2002: Staged Reading of Lazy at Tonic. Directed by Davis McCallum, with Frank Deal, Jack Ferver, Alicia Roper, and Hollis Witherspoon.