Andrea is an actor and director who branched out into arts administration. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph and has studied under Harry Lane, Alan Filewod, Judith Thompson, Sky Gilbert, Catherine Marrion and Lorraine Behnan.
Selected Credits:
For Hart House Theatre > As Director – We the Family (2015 World Premiere), Criminals in Love (2008) and Hamlet (2006). As performer – Jerry Springer-The Opera, Regan in King Lear, Rhonda and Scarlett in Lion in the Streets (Hart House Theatre).
Directing – Escape from Happiness (Alumnae Theatre), Lysistrata-the sex strike, Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus Rex and The Trojan Women (while Artistic Director of Canopy Theatre Company); Closing (WriteNOW Festival); Four Ways ‘Til Rain (Pencilneck – Toronto Fringe); The Dishwashers (AD for Red Barn Theatre); Macbeth (AD for Classical Theatre Project); Wild Abandon (Tacklebox); Zastrozzi (For the Love of Louis). Performing – Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Clytemnestra in Electra, Volumnia in Coriolanus (Canopy Theatre Company); Spin Kitchen (Shipbrecht), Maria in Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre Project); Sally in A Lie of the Mind (Alumnae Theatre); Agnes in Marion Bridge (Glen Morris Studio); Shirley in Criminal Genius, Gail in Criminals in Love, the Queen in Rumours of Our Death, Lilliane in Theatre of the Film Noir (For the Love of Louis); Bob in See Bob Run (Tacklebox).