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  Christopher Abbott and
J'Nelle Bobb-Semple
One Nation Under
Directed by Tye Blue
 
 
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  K.K. Moggie, Khris Lewin in
A Peddler's Tale
Directed by Kim Weild
Women's Project, WFC
photo by Bruce Cohen
 
 
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  Adrienne Hurd and Peter Reznikoff
One Nation Under
Directed by Tye Blue
 
 
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  Mark Richard Ford and Ensemble
The Bronx Casket Co.
Directed by Hinton Battle
 
 


Biography


Andrea Lepcio’s Looking for the Pony is a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award along with Ruined, The Orphan Home Cycle, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Brother/Sister plays.The play was also a finalist for the NEA Outstanding New American Play Award. It will be produced at the Venus Theatre in October 2010 and Detoit Repertory Theatre in July 2011. She worte the libretto for The Ballad of Rom and Julz, with lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis and music by Brooke Fox, presented in a concert teading at Bard Summerscape in July 2010. Her plays have been produced and developed at Chashama, HERE, The Lady Cavaliers, Lark Play Development Center, 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, Synchronicity Performance Group and Trustus Theatre, regionally. She is a member of America-in-Play, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop, New Perspective’s Women’s Work Lab, and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She is an alumna of the Lark’s Playwrights’ Workshop and the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab. 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.

Looking for the Pony was presented in a "Rolling World Premiere" Off-Broadway at Vital Theatre Company in New York City and at Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta in 2009. The orignal one-act version of Looking for the Pony was presented by Vital Theatre and appeared at Manhattan Theatre Souce. Martin Denton published it in Plays and Playwrights 2003.

Also in 2010, Sad Mad Glad Bad was workshopped by New Georges directed by Melissa Maxwell. In 2009, The Gold, with book by Andrea Lepcio and Philip Yosowitz, and music/lyrics by Philip Yosowitz, was presented by the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at the Miller Outdoor Theater in Houston. Me You Us Them was read as part of the undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122 directed by Zach Morris. Andrea was also a contributing writer to Crossing Over: a Medicine Show Entertainment in 2010 and Stealing Glances by America-in-Play. The Immediacy Project, an ensemble-created dance film with Zach Morris and Third Rail Projects, is in post-production.

One Nation Under was originally produced by At Hand Theatre Company. A second production was presented by Three Chicks Theatre. One Nation Under was developed at the Lark Play Development Center in Arthur Kopit’s workshop and with director Stephanie Gilman. “A Peddler’s Tale: Buttons, Guts & Bluetooth” was presented by Women’s Project and arts>World Financial Center directed by Kim Wield. With D.D. Verni, she conceived of the goth-rock musical The Bronx Casket Co. presented at The Beckett and Chashama with Cote de Pablo by Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory(songs by D.D. Verni, direction/choreography by Hinton Battle). A 45-minute version was presented at The American Living Room at HERE and selected for the Best of the American Living Room. Eclipse was presented by the Titans Theatre and was short-listed for the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival PlayLab. Hook & Eye won the 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. Bottom of Nine, semi-finalist for the O'Neill, was developed at Rattlestick and read at Women's Project with Nate Corddry, directed by Matt August. She was a Playwright in Residence at the Hangar Theatre Lab in 1999. Andrea was a founder of the Mint Theatre Company where she produced the World Premiere of Austin Pendleton’s Uncle Bob.

Andrea is the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program Director. She was a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Drama. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, League of Professional Theater Women and New York Theatre Experience Advisory Committee. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. M.B.A. UC, Berkeley. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.