Andrea Thome

Resident Playwright

2009 -- 2016

Andrea Thome, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is a Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt who grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that inhabit her plays. Her dramas, absurd comedies, play translations and video satires have been presented at theaters, galleries and universities around the U.S. and Latin America. She became a playwright by necessity in San Francisco, where her tiny Red Rocket Theater company avoided eviction by writing and producing a new play every six weeks. Andrea currently co-directs FULANA, a New York-based satire collective (and 2009 Ford Foundation grantee) that creates cutting political/cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). Andrea has received fellowships from the Lark Play Development Center (where she is currently a New Voices/New York fellow and was in the initial Playwrights Workshop), NYFA, the City of Oakland, INTAR, New York University (MFA Fellow), and the Women’s Project. Past collaborators include Culture Clash, Latina Theater Lab, Campo Santo and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Andrea has taught at various universities, schools and cultural centers nationwide, and directs The Lark Play Development Center’s U.S.-México Playwright Exchange.

ND Activity

Creativity Fund
Creativity Fund
The Creativity Fund blends the flexibility of a one-day play reading with the intensive focus of a two-week workshop, providing ten to fifteen playwrights per year the opportunity to program three to five day workshops on an ad hoc basis. Creativity Fund workshops are structured according to each writer's needs at any stage of development and are funded through a lead grant from the Andew W. Mellon Foundation.
PlayTime
PlayTime
Launched in 2002, the PlayTime Developmental Studio provides five New Dramatists writers with a two-week writers' retreat, right in the heart of New York City. PlayTime is a laboratory designed to give playwrights the opportunity to explore, workshop, rethink, and revise ambitious new works of theatre by drawing from a supportive resident company of actors, directors, stage managers, staff, and fellow playwrights.
Whitfield Cook Award
Whitfield Cook Award
The Whitfield Cook Award goes to one New Dramatists playwright each year for an unproduced, unpublished play deemed worthiest by an outside panel of judges. The purpose of the award is to provide financial assistance to New Dramatists resident playwrights to encourage and reward their talents in the art of playwriting.
Writers' Executive Committee
Writers' Executive Committee
The Writers' Executive Committee is a voluntary grouping of resident playwrights who meet throughout the year to discuss and make decisions concerning the work of New Dramatists and to help guide the organization.