Andrew Rincon

Discipline: Playwriting

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 2023

Awards/Honors: Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre (2018), New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019), Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (2019-2020), MacDowell Fellow (2020). Visiting Playwright in Residence at Skidmore College (2021-2022)

Website: https://www.andrewrinconwrites.com/

Andrew is a Queer Colombian-American playwright and screenwriter. His work blends fantasy, modern mythologies and Queer fabulation. His plays have been developed with Latinx Playwrights Circle, INTAR, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta). He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) , 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). His play I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet was recently published in Yale Theatre Magazine (Vol 52.1) and had it’s world premiere in Oct 2022 in NYC (produced by New Light Theater Project). B.A Florida State University. Plays include, That Rhythm in the Blood, The Lonely (A Fictionally Non-Accurate Historical Kiki), and El Mito or The Myth of my Pain. Currently in Development; a multi media comedy inspired by mixed martial arts, healing, and research into Queer religion and spirituality, Maracuyá.