ANDREA THOME
Andrea Thome is a playwright, translator and teacher whose works have been produced in NYC (the Lark, INTAR, Immigrants’ Theatre Project, NYU) as well as in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Latin America. She is Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center’s U.S.-Mexico Playwright Exchange (now in its 4th year), which brings Mexican and U.S. playwrights and other theater artists together to create translations of new works from both countries. She also co-founded FULANA, a satirical video and performance collective whose work screens at festivals worldwide and online at www.fulana.org. Andrea has collaborated with artists including Anna Deavere Smith, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Campo Santo, and Culture Clash. In the Bay Area, she co-founded the Red Rocket Theater and was an original member of the Latina Theatre Lab (Yerba Buena Center Artists in Residence 1999). She received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she recently created and taught an original class (Parodic Correctness: Satire and Social Dialogue) for the department of Art and Public Policy (Spring 2008). She has worked with young people as a teaching artist New York city since 2002. Andrea has received fellowships from the City of Oakland, the Barondess Foundation, a Blue Mountain Center Residency, INTAR’s Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab (current member) and is a 2008 NYFA Fellow in Playwriting/ Screenwriting and a member of the Womens Project Playwriting Lab 2008-2010. She is a member of New Dramatists.