Andrew is a globe-trotting playwright, screenwriter, poet, translator, and budding novelist whose many experiences living far off the beaten path shape his writing for TV, theatre, film, and beyond. His plays, screenplays, and teleplays feature multi-racial casts and examine social, political, and historical upheavals.
His plays have been produced and developed in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Mexico, and Peru. Andrew wrote the first-known English translations of plays by Nineteenth-Century Brazilian absurdist playwright Qorpo-Santo. In Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Inca, he collaborated with Centro Cultural Kusiwasi to create the play ‘Unu Riti Unu Mayu.’ His most recent play, ‘Harlem Canary/Tokyo Crow,’ has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Performance Network, and the MAP Fund, and was recently developed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor program and PlayPenn. Andrew staffed on the television series ‘Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol,’ which streamed on Peacock.
He holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, which he received an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and has a BA in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. He co-coordinates the WGA’s Asian American Writers Salon, and served as a WGA Strike Captain. Andrew was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Papua New Guinea, This year, he was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA playwriting fellowship. A polyglot, Andrew is fluent in Spanish and Tok Pisin, has an advanced level of Portuguese, and is currently learning Japanese.