photo by Crystal Birns
ANDREA L. HART (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theatre-maker whose work ranges from creating large, sprawling devised pieces to writing opera librettos to directing classic musicals to designing and building masks and shadow puppets. Her work has been supported by grants from Puffin Foundation West, Theater Bay Area, and Venturous Theater Fund, and has been developed and performed at UTNT and Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, TX, Thompson Street Opera in Chicago, #AmericanAF Festival in NYC, Great Plains Theatre Conference, the MacDowell Colony, CounterPulse, 6NewPlays, and others. Recent credits include directing a reading of Novid Parsi's THE LIFE YOU GAVE ME at the BIPOC Playwrights Festival in Boise, ID; directing MARIE ANTOINETTE for Cabrillo College, writing and directing MURKY AS HELL at UTNT in Austin, devising a geo-triggered audio journey, and working with composers and dancers on an immersive, participatory theatrical event. This summer she will direct Santa Cruz Opera Project’s immersive DIE FLEDERMAUS. She holds an MFA in Directing from UT Austin and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Cabrillo Stage.
Artist Statement
I’m interested in transformation at every level and much of my work explores change through its opposite: repetition, cycles, rhythm, and ritual. My background is in physical theater and poor theater. I am excited by theater in unusual places playing to nontraditional audiences. I continue to explore roles as a performer, director, and writer, and a deep interest in the messy, scary, exhilarating act of collaboration is at the heart of all my work. Currently, my work is exploring how the actions and decisions of large, ruling bodies affect the individual bodies subject to that rule. By juxtaposing official or found language with ritual and poetry, I seek to understand extreme global events and daring personal decisions.