Andrea Lepcio

212-727-7423  lepcio@gmail.com  www.andrealepcio.com

 

Plays 

 

Full Length

Tunnel. Vision. (formerly Sad Mad Glad Bad)

Mini-Workshop New Georges, Mar 10. Workshop New Perspectives Theatre, directed by Melissa Maxwell, Jul 09.  Roundtable at Lark Play Development Center, Mar 08. Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, 06-08.

Me You Us Them        Reading, directed by Zach Morris, at playgroundzero part of undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122, Jul 09.  Roundtable at Lark Play Development Center, Jun 08.

Looking for the Pony  Rolling World Premiere Vital Theatre in New York City, Jan 09 directed by Stephan Golux and Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta, Feb 09, directed by Lisa Rothe.  Upcoming productions:  Venus Theatre, Oct 10 and Detroit Repertory Theatre, Jul 11.

One Nation Under  Productions Three Chicks Theatre, Aug-Sep 08 and At Hand Theatre Company, Aug 07.  Staged reading at Carnegie Summer New Play Festival, Jul 07. Lark Playwrights’ Workshop, Jan 06 and Mar 05, directed by Stephanie Gilman.  Reading at Carnegie Collaborative, Oct 05.

Bottom of Nine  Reading at Women’s Project and Production, directed by Matt August with Nathan Corddry, Nov 03. Readings at Broadway Theater Institute, Mar 03.  Carnegie Mellon New Play Reading Series, Jul 02.

Eclipse             Production at Titans Theatre, Apr-May 03.  Staged reading Shalimar Productions, Jan 02 and as part of Creative Response Team, Live Theatre, Nov 01.  Staged reading at Carnegie Mellon University Summer New Play Project, Jul 99.

Hook & Eye    Production at Trustus Theatre, 01 - Best-selling show of season.

Reading at Trustus Theatre, Aug 00. WCDAC, Los Angeles, Sep 00. Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, Winter New Plays Project, Mar 00.

 

Musicals

The Ballad of Rom & Jules     Lyrics by Cheryl Davis and music by Brooke Fox concert reading at Bard Summerscape Jul 10. 

The Gold         co-bookwriter with lyrics and music by Philip Yosowitz.  Production presented by  Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at the Miller Outdoor Theater in Houston in May 09.

The Bronx       Music by D.D. Verni, direction/choreography by Hinton Battle.  Beckett Theatre, Casket Co.       Jun 03, Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory, Jan 03. The American Living Room, HERE,

Aug 02.  Best of American Living Room, Sep 02. 

 

One Acts

Tumble Jumble   Estrogenius, Oct 08.

Dyke Patrol        New Perspectives Theatre, Women’s Work Lab, Aug 08.

A Peddler’s Tale: Buttons, Guts & Bluetooth

Commissioned and presented by Women’s Project and arts>World Financial Center, directed by Kim Weild, May 07.

How I Won the War    Vital Theatre, Directed by Jim Duff Dec 06.

The Macalfardongregintosh Twins     The Lady Cavaliers, Jun 06.

 


Andrea Lepcio

 

One Acts (cont)

Second Kiss        Bloody Unicorn, Az, Sep 06.  Vital Theatre, Dec 05 and Sam French, Jun 06, directed by Stephanie Gilman.  Reading at ArtsPass, Mar 05.

Out There           Lyrics and music by Charlie Bloom., Raw Impressions Mar 06.

Get in the Car    Provincetown Theatre Company, May 05.  Estrogenius, Oct 04.  Reading at Dramatists Guild as part of Final Presentation of DG Fellows, Jun 04. 

Do Over             Tandem Acts, Women’s Project and Productions, Apr 04.

Can You Get My Cat Off My Ass?       Part of Inside Out, Women’s Project and Productions, Mar 04.

Crossing Town    Part of This is Your Brain On… Vital Theatre,  Jan 04.

Why Do Good Boobs Go Bad?           Estrogenius, Oct 03.

Peace on Earth Goodwill to…            Women’s Project /THAW, Feb 03.  Butte College, Apr 03.

Parched              Dance-theater created with Zach Morris and Nikki Berger, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Nov 02.

Night, Night        Vital Theatre, Oct 02. Tandem Acts, Women's Project, Apr 02. Culture Project, Jul 02.


Looking for the Pony

Manhattan Theatre Source, Sep 02. Samuel French Festival, Aug 02. Strawberry Festival, Jul 02. Vital Theatre, directed by Brooke O’Harra, May 02.

Whodunit            Vital Theatre Company, Oct, 01. Reading Teacher's Theatre of NJ, Apr 02.

Benny and the Cow   Titans Pantheistic Vaudeville, New York International Fringe Festival, Aug 01.

The Wife Seller     Workshop, Hangar Theater, Lab Company Playwright Residency, Jun 99.

Average Family Business   Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, ‘98. Workshop, Hangar

Theater, Lab Company Playwright Residency, Jun 99. 

Love’s Lost and Found       Women Playwrights Collective, Aug 98.

 

Screenplays & Television

 and Jill, under development with Jim Duff

The Immediacy Project, experimental dance, spoken, sung film with choreographer/director Zach Morris and Third Rail Projects, in post production

A September Spring, two-hour screenplay, unproduced, 99

“Crimes and Misdemeanors”, short broadcast by PBS, Sloan Film and Television Summit, ‘99.

 

Awards

Finalist Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award along with along with Ruined, The Orphan Home Cycle, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Brother/Sister Plays. 

Finalist NEA Outstanding New American Play,  Looking for the Pony, 08

Alternate, Sam French Festival, “Second Kiss,” ‘06

Finalist Heideman Award, “Get in the Car,” 04; 10-minute version “Looking for the Pony,” ‘03

Dramatists Guild Fellow, 03-04; Assistant to Terrence McNally on premiere of The Stendhal Syndrome  at Primary Stages, ‘04; invited back to coordinate Fellows program

Finalist The Playwrights’ Center/Guthrie Theater “Two-Headed Challenge” ‘04

Winner ‘01 Trustus Playwrights’ Festival, Hook & Eye

Finalist Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Contest, Bloomington Playwrights Project, ‘01, Hook & Eye

Semi-Finalist O'Neill National Playwrights Conference ‘02 Bottom of Nine;  ‘00 Hook & Eye

Short-listed PlayLab, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, ‘01, Eclipse

Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award for the screenplay, A September Spring, ‘99

Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Scholarship, ‘99-’00; Shubert Playwriting Scholarship, ‘98-’99

 


Andrea Lepcio

 

Publications

“Second Kiss” – Best Ten Minute Play with Three or More Characters of ‘06, Smith & Kraus

“Eclipse – Excerpt” 60 Seconds to Shine:  221 One-Minute Monologues for Men, Smith & Kraus ‘05

“Get in the Car” Estrogenius ‘04, Manhattan Theatre Source

“Why Do Good Boobs Go Bad?”  Estrogenius ‘03, Manhattan Theatre Source

“Looking for the Pony” Plays and Playwrights 2003, Ed. Martin Denton, The New York Theatre Experience, February ‘03; Estrogenius ‘02, Manhattan Theatre Source.

“Whodunit”, lichen, vol. 4, no. 2, “letters”, fall ‘02

StageCenter,  Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, ‘99:  “Cherry Jones: A Working Actress and Her Career”; “Profile:  Milan Stitt”; “Stuart Wutzell: Alum Extraordinare”

 

Professional Memberships


America-in-Play

BMI-Lehman Engel Librettist Workshop

Dramatists Guild

International Centre for Women Playwrights

League of Professional Theatre Women

Lark Play Development Center

New Georges

New Perspectives

NewShoe

NY Theatre Experience Advisory Committee

Three Chicks Theatre

Women’s Project


 

Teaching

Dramatists Guild, 2004-Present,

Program Director Fellows Program for emerging playwrights, lyricists and composers.

Stony Brook University, Guest Faculty, 2010

Marymount Manhattan College, Guest Faculty, 2009

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, Visiting Faculty, 2008-2010

College of the Atlantic, Visiting Playwright, occasional seminars

Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Instructor, Acting for Nonmajors, 1999-00; Pre-College Summer Program ’99, Visiting Playwright

 

Principal Business and Institutional Affiliations

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, Visiting Faculty, 2008-Present

Dramatists Guild Fellows Program Director, ‘04-Present

Community Board, Open Meadows Foundation (Benefiting women and girls), ‘90-Present

Principal, Rosen Consulting Group, ‘97-Present (Flexible part-time)

Vice President, Chase Manhattan Bank, ‘88-’97

Analyst, Salomon Brothers, ‘86-‘88

Analyst, Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California at Berkeley, ‘85-‘86

Land Use Coordinator/Strategic Planner, Hanover Co-op, ‘80-‘83

Intern, U.S. House of Representatives, George E. Brown (D-CA), ‘78

 

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, M.F.A, 2000

University of California, Berkeley, M.B.A., 1985

College of the Atlantic, B.A. in Human Ecology, 1979

 

Teachers: Milan Stitt, Tina Howe, Maria Irene Fornes, Lanie Robertson, Tony Howarth (Playwriting);

Jeff Monahan (Screenwriting); Sarah Charno, Oliver Goldstick, Mary Sue Price (Television); Peter Frisch (Directing); Mladan Kiselov, William Hickey, Myra Carter, Kelly Morgan, Ellie Renfield, Linda Key (Acting); Judy Conte, Debra Floyd, Martha Yoshida (Dance); Karen Oster, Diane Barclay, Gloria Biegler (Voice)