Resume & Bio

RESUME

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Women’s Project Lab 2010-2012
Kreativni cena (Creative Award), Prague Fringe Festival 2011 (Human Fruit Bowl)
Princess Grace Award 2009 (Finalist, Complete)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2008 (Finalist, Complete)
Water, Water, Everywhere: A Ten-minute Play Competition 2006 (First Place, Now)
Tournesol Residency for Emerging Playwrights 2004
Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2004 (Bay Area Shorts, I Got It)
Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant 2003

PLAYS
Human Fruit Bowl
Hong Kong Microfest, October 2011
Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September 2011
Prague Fringe Festival, May – June 2011
dir. Liam Billingham

The Envelope
(Ten-minute)
The Barrow Group, NYC
February 2011
dir. Alice Jankell

Why
(Ten-minute)
The Barrow Group, NYC
June 2010
dir. Lori Kee

Complete
(Full-length)
FringeNYC & FringeNYC Encore Series
August – September 2009
dir. Birgitta Victorson

Penultimate
(Ten-minute)
Safe Mode Productions, NYC
April 2010
dir. Kit Bihun

Complete
Jeune Theatre National & Compagnie Transborder, Paris
Staged reading, January 2010
dir. Mathilde Leclère

And So We Became American
(Full-length)
FURY Factory Festival, foolsFURY Theater Co., San Francisco
Workshop, June 2009
dir. Zac Jaffee

Complete
San Francisco State University
Staged reading, March 2008
dir. Tracy Ward

Found Language
(Ten-minute)
One4All Theater, San Francisco
Staged reading, June 2007
dir. Zac Jaffee

Now (with Zac Jaffee)
(Ten-minute)
Water, Water, Everywhere: A Ten-minute Play Competition, San Francisco
Fundraiser for 826 Valencia
October 2006
dir. Zac Jaffee &
Andrea Kuchlewska

First Seal
(Ten-minute)
Woman’s Will’s 24 Hour Play Fest
March 2006
dir. Velina Brown

Happy
(Ten-minute)
Woman’s Will’s 24 Hour Play Fest
March 2005
dir. Bernadette Quattrone

Complete (under former title, I Got It)
(Full-length)
Z Magic Monday, a program of Magic Theatre and The Z Space Studio, San Francisco
Staged reading, February 2005
dir. Kent Nicholson

Complete (under former title, I Got It)
(Full-length)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Bay Area Shorts), San Francisco
Staged reading (excerpt), July 2004
dir. Molly Noble

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
Dramatists Guild
League of Professional Theatre Women

EDUCATION
MFA, Playwriting, San Francisco State University (with honors)
BA, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (graduation speaker; College Commendations)

BIO
Andrea Kuchlewska’s plays include Complete (FringeNYC & FringeNYC Encore Series; Bay Area Playwrights Festival; finalist, Princess Grace Award), Human Fruit Bowl (Prague Fringe Festival, winner Kreativni cena (Creative Award); Amsterdam Fringe Festival; Hong Kong Microfest), And So We Became American (FURY Factory Festival, San Francisco), Penultimate (Safe Mode Productions, NYC), Why (The Barrow Group, NYC), The Envelope (The Barrow Group, NYC), among others. Her work has also been developed or produced in San Francisco at The Z Space Studio, The Marsh, Venue 9, and Climate Theatre. Andrea is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant and the Tournesol Residency for Emerging Playwrights. She is a member of the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Lab and is a former artist in residence at The Z Space Studio (San Francisco). She holds a BA in linguistics from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University.