Willamette University

Theatre

Andrea Stolowitz

Andrea Stolowitz

Andrea Stolowitz is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of California San Diego. She has had her plays developed and presented at many venues including The Cherry Lane, The Old Globe, The Long Wharf, New York Stage and Film, and the Mill Mountain Theater.

Her play KNOWING CAIRO had its professional world premiere at The Old Globe Theater (San Diego) in April, 2003. KNOWING CAIRO was the winner of the Fremont Centre Theatre's New Play Prize, a finalist at the Mill Mountain Theater New Play Festival, a finalist for the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award, and the runner-up for the 2003 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists. KNOWING CAIRO was also produced by Rivendell Theater (Chicago) at Victory Gardens in Jan. 2004 and in Salt Lake City in Feb. 2005 by Pygmalion productions at the Rose Wagner Theater Center. KNOWING CAIRO was published by Playscripts Inc in the fall of 2006. The play will be part of the 2008 New York Stage and Film/Vassar summer season.

SEASCAPES was the winner of the Women at the Door New Play Competition (2003), a finalist for the O'Neill National New Plays Conference (2003), and a finalist for Play Labs at the Playwrights Center, Mnpls. It was produced by Mill Mountain Theater (VA) in January 2004 as a winner of their new play competition and by The Asylum Theater (NV) in April 2004.

Her play TALES OF DOOMED LOVE will be produced in Washington, DC as part of the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival. The play was developed at the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, Women At The Door/Famous Door Theater (Chicago), and the Artists of Tomorrow festival (NYC). It was named best new script in 2004 by the Triangle Independent.

Her other full-length plays including BERLIN CIRCLES, HOTEL TRAUMBAD, and GEOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES have been finalists for various awards and prizes including the Jerome Foundation Grant, PlayLabs, the JET theater New Play Prize, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and The Princess Grace Award. Her screenwriting work includes JONATHAN’S WAR, a feature-length action film represented by Axial Entertainment and the treatment for CODE NAME: PELICANO, which was sold to independent producers.

She served on the theater studies faculty at Duke University from 2003-2007 and at UC-San Diego from 2000-2002. She was a fellow at The Sewanee Writers Conference in 2005, completed a residency at Ledig House Writer’s Colony in the fall of 2006, and was awarded a North Carolina Playwrights Grant in 2007.

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.