Andrea is a member of the acclaimed BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Writers Workshop in both the advanced songwriting workshop and the book-writing workshop. Her final musical projects from first and second year are now on Youtube!
Current Projects: Andrea’s show The Parts I Keep Inside (written with composer Jeffrey Schmelkin) just underwent a developmental reading in NYC and is slated for further development. Lilith: A New Musical co-written with Akaina Ghosh is also in development after having been named a semi-finalist in NAMT’s 2020 15-Minute Musical Contest. Her children’s musical Good Earth, which received a grant and development workshop from The University of Surrey in 2021, is on tour in northern California with Bike City Theatre Company.
Acting: Since she graduated with her MFA in Acting from the University of Alabama, Andrea has worked at various theatres around the country, including Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre (Austen’s Pride – A New Musical), Capital Stage Company, Berkeley Playhouse (where she won a Theatre Bay Area Award for her portrayal of Hope in Urinetown), Davis Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (where she worked with The Kilbanes), The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Maples Repertory Theatre. At TEXAS! Musical Drama she was also just crazy enough to volunteer to do fire stunts (yep, lighting yourself on fire-she volunteered to do that) under the coaching of professional stunt superstars Bill Boggs (Boggs FX) and Sherril Johnson. Unlike most of her other special skills, she cannot do this on command.