ANDREA L. HART
ANDREA L. HART (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theatre-maker whose work includes devising large, site-specific performances, writing opera librettos and off-beat plays, directing classic musicals and new plays, and designing and building masks and shadow puppets. Recent credits include directing SWEENEY TODD for Cabrillo Stage; METAMORPHOSES, SPONGEBOB THE MUSICAL and MARIE ANTOINETTE for Cabrillo College, directing Santa Cruz Opera Project’s immersive DIE FLEDERMAUS, and several musicals at York School in Monterey. 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.