Andrea Stolowitz joined The New Harmony Project as a writer-in-residence at the 2015 conference with her play Schlüterstraße 27. Andrea was a writer in full development in 2011 with her play Antarktikos. She sat down with Mead Hunter at the Poet House in historic New Harmony to discuss her process and the creation and development of new work.

Andrea Stolowitz’s plays have been presented and developed at The Cherry Lane (NYC), The Old Globe (SD), The Long Wharf (CT), New York Stage and Film (NY), and Portland Center Stage (OR).  The LA Times calls her work “heartbreaking” and the Orange County Register characterizes her approach as a “brave refusal to sugarcoat…issues and tough decisions.”

A recipient of Artists Repertory Theater’s $25,000 New Play Commission, Andrea play Ithaka premiered at the theater in 2013 to critical acclaim. It had its mid-west premiere in 2014 at Chicago’s InFusion Theater. It will be produced in 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.

Her play Antarktikos was awarded the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Drama and was published in July in TheatreForum magazine. The play world-premiered at The Pittsburgh Playhouse in March 2013 and was workshopped nationwide at The New Harmony Project (IN), Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, and at Seattle Repertory Theater.

Knowing Cairo world-premiered at the Old Globe Theatre, which earned San Diego’s “Billie” Best New Play Award and an LA Times’ Critic’s Pick. It is published by Playscripts Inc. and continues to be produced nationally and internationally. It was most recently presented at Profile Theater (OR) in 2013.

Tales of Doomed Love premiered in Washington, DC at The Studio Theater. As part of the 2008 Fringe Festival, DC Theater Scene called it “one of the finest entries in the Capital Fringe” and the Triangle Independent named its production at StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance (Chapel Hill, NC) “best new play.”

Andrea’s screenwriting work includes Jonathan’s War, a feature-length action film, the treatment for Code Name: Pelicano which was sold to independent producers, and the upcoming web series Crackerjacks.

Andrea is a founding member of the playwrights collective Playwrights West and works as a collaborating writer with the award-winning devised theater company hand2mouth theater. She is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theater.

A Walter E. Dakin Fellow at The Sewanee Writers Conference, Andrea has also been awarded residencies at Ledig House, Soapstone, and Hedgebrook, and Arts Grants from North Carolina, Oregon, and private foundations. She is a 2013 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship winner. She was the recipient of a 2014 DAAD grant to support her residency with English Theatre Berlin/International Performing Arts Center. Her new play Schlüterstraße 27 will world-premiere there in October 2016.

An MFA playwriting alumna of UC-San Diego, Andrea has served on the faculties at Willamette University, The University of Portland, Duke University and UC-San Diego.