Andrea Thome

Andrea Thome's plays, theatrical translations and multimedia satires have been presented both nationally and abroad. Her play PINKOLANDIA will be produced by several theaters in the 2013-2014 season (New York's INTAR Theatre, Austin's Salvage Vanguard Theater, Two River Theatre in NJ, and Chicago's 16th Street Theater) through the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays program. Andrea's English translation of NEVA, by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón, premiered at New York's Public Theater in March 2013 and opens in a June co-production by Center Theater Group/South Coast Rep/La Jolla Playhouse. Other produced full-length plays include UNDONE (Victory Gardens Theater Ignition Festival; Queens College Theater) and WORM GIRL (Washington DC's Cherry Red Productions). She is currently working on her mutlidisciplinary piece THE NECKLACE OF THE DOVE, developed through Mabou Mines' Resident Artist Program and the Lark.

A Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt, Andrea grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that inhabit her plays. She became a playwright by necessity in San Francisco, where her Red Rocket Theater Company paid their theater's rent by creating and producing a new play each month. Andrea also co-directs FULANA, a New York-based satire collective that creates cutting-edge political & cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). She has received fellowships from NYFA, New Voices/New York (Lark), the City of Oakland, INTAR, New York University (MFA Fellow), and the Women’s Project. Andrea has taught at various universities, schools and cultural centers nationwide. She helped create the Lark’s U.S.-México Playwright Exchange, which she has directed since 2006. Andrea has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009.

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