Biography
Andrea Lepcio is a Maine-based playwright. Her play The Last Jew is a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chamber Playwriting Award. She won the Maine Literary Award for Drama for her solo play Human. She was a playwright in residence at Acadia National Park in 2018. Her climate change play, World Avoided, was commissioned by Sloan/EST and presented in a reading by EST as part of the First Lights Festival in 2017 and 2019. Strait of Gibraltar had a second production at American Stage in May of 2018 and premiered at Synchronicity Theatre in March 2017. The play was developed at Naked Angels, Lark Play Development Center, Geva Theatre Center, and Forward Flux Productions. Venus Theatre produced a second production of Tunnel Vision in May 2017, and Off the Wall in Pittsburgh produced the first production in October of 2015. The play was workshopped at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, New Georges, and New Perspectives. The World Premiere of Dinner at Home between Deaths was produced by Indi Chi Productions at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles in April 2016. It was developed and read at Naked Angels and Lark Play Development Center. Looking for the Pony was a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and for the NEA Outstanding New American Play Award. It was presented in a "Rolling World Premiere" Off-Broadway at Vital Theatre Company in New York City and Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta in 2009. The play has received one international and four additional regional productions. Me You Us Them was developed with TerraNova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group and at the Lark Play Development Center. Central Avenue Breakdown (book by Kevin Ray and Andrea Lepcio with additional story by Suellen Vance and music/lyrics by Kevin Ray) was performed at the Daegu International Musical Festival, New York Music Theatre Festival, and Fwd Theatre in Chicago. The Ballad of Rom and Julz (book by Andrea Lepcio, lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis, and music by Brooke Fox) was presented in a concert reading at Bard Summerscape in July 2010.
Andrea’s plays and musicals have also been produced and developed at HERE, Manhattan Theatre Source, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks, Titans Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY; Bloody Unicorn, Goodspeed Opera House, Hangar Theatre, Miller Theatre, Provincetown Theatre Company, and Trustus Theatre, regionally and The Little Theatre Group of Costa Rica, internationally.
Andrea is a member of the Dramatists Guild, was a Dramatists Guild Fellow, served as the Fellows Program Director for ten years, and is a Dramatists Guild Institute teacher. She is an adjunct at the College of the Atlantic. Andrea is also a personal trainer and yoga teacher. M.F.A. Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.
