Andrea’s plays have been produced and developed at Chashama, HERE, The Lady Cavaliers, Lark Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, New Shoe, Raw Impressions, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks, Titans Theatre, Vital Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY, and at Bloody Unicorn, Hangar Theatre, Provincetown Theatre Company and Trustus Theatre, regionally. She is a member of America-in-Play, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop and New Perspective’s Women’s Work Lab and is an alumna of the Lark’s Playwrights’ Workshop and the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab. Beginning in the 2008-09 academic year, she is a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Drama. She is also the Program Director for the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program. Her screenplay, A September Spring, won the Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, her short plays and monologues have been published in Plays and Playwrights 2003, Estrogenius, lichen and by Smith & Kraus in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men and Best Ten Minute Plays with 3 or more characters of 2006. Her full-length plays include: Looking for the Pony, One Nation Under, Bottom of Nine, Eclipse, Hook & Eye and the musical, The Bronx Casket Co.

A second New York production of One Nation Under is being produced by Three Chicks Theatre in August and September of 2008. The play was originally produced by At Hand Theatre Company. Looking for the Pony was read at Vital Theatre in March of 2008 with Deirdre O’Connell and Michelle Hurd, directed by Stephan Golux. Also in March, a work in progress reading of The Ballad of Rom and Jules, a boi-meets-girl gender-bending love/death musical with lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis and music by Mary Feinsinger was presented by NewShoe. The Immediacy Project, an ensemble-created dance film with Zach Morris and Third Rail Projects is in post production. Also under development: Sad, Mad, Glad, Bad, a new play; Antigone’s Cycle, a timeless telling of Antigone’s story from beginning to end (Three Chicks commission); and an untitled screenplay.

The original one-act version of Looking for the Pony was presented by the Vital Theatre and appeared in numerous festivals. Manhattan Theatre Source presented a new production in Estrogenius 2002 with Michelle and Adrienne Hurd, directed by Barbara Gulan. Martin Denton published it in Plays and Playwrights 2003. A ten-minute version of the play was a finalist for the 2003 Heideman Award. In addition to the most recent reading, the full length was workshopped at Vital Theatre in 2007 with Deirdre O'Connell and Portia, directed by Stephan Golux. The full length version was developed with support from Vital Theatre, Women’s Project, Manhattan Theatre Source and the Dramatists Guild Fellows program.

“A Peddler’s Tale: Buttons, Guts & Bluetooth” was presented by Women’s Project and arts>World Financial Center directed by Kim Wield in 2007. One Nation Under was developed at the Lark Theatre in Arthur Kopit’s workshop and with director Stephanie Gilman. Bottom of Nine was developed at Rattlestick (2004-5) and read at Women's Project with Nate Corddry directed by Matt August (October 2003.) An early draft was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill conference in 2001; it was also read at Broadway Theater Institute with Nate Corddry (March 2003) and Carnegie Mellon Summer New Plays Project (July 2002.) Eclipse was presented as part of the Titans Theatre Spring 2003 season. It was developed through staged readings at Live Theatre (November 2001,) Shalimar Productions (January 2002,) and Carnegie Mellon (July 1999) and was short-listed for the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival PlayLab in 2001. Hook & Eye won the 2001 Trustus Playwrights Festival where it was produced and was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Conference and finalist for the Reva Shiner Contest at Bloomington Playwrights Project. She was a Playwright in Residence at the Hangar Theatre Lab in 1999. Andrea is a founder of the Mint Theatre Company where she produced the World Premiere of Austin Pendleton’s Uncle Bob.

With D.D. Verni, she conceived of the goth-rock musical The Bronx Casket Co. Her original book was presented at The Beckett and Chashama by Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory (songs by D.D. Verni, direction/choreography by Hinton Battle) in 2003. A 45-minute version was presented at The American Living Room at HERE in 2002 and selected for the Best of the American Living Room.

Andrea is a member of the Dramatist Guild, New Shoe, New York Theatre Experience Advisory Committee, International Centre for Women Playwrights, Three Chicks Theatre and Open Meadows Foundation Community Board. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. M.B.A. UC, Berkeley. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.