BIOGRAPHY (Updated 10/11)

Andy Bragen, a graduate of Brown University's MFA Program in Literary Arts, was a 2009-2010 Workspace Resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Other honors include the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from Sewanee: The University of the South, a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. The Hairy Dutchman, commissioned by the University of Rochester, was produced at the university in April 2009. Spuyten Duyvil, which Andy developed at the 2004 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, was produced by Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep. in July 2008. Greater Messapia was produced at Queens Theatre in the Park in March 2004. His newest piece, This Is My Office received workshop productions at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep in July 2010, and at Studio Roanoke in April 2011. Also a translator, Andy works directly from French and Spanish, and with a co-translator from the Japanese. Vengeance Can Wait, workshopped at the 2006 Playlabs Conferences in Minneapolis, was produced at PS122 in April 2008. Other plays and translations have been seen and heard at numerous theatres in New York and elsewhere, including The Guthrie Theatre, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, LAByrinth, EST, Repertorio Español, Soho Think Tank, Page 73 Productions, NYU's hotINK Festival, The Illusion Theatre, The Aurora Theatre and the Lark Theatre. He is a core member of the Playwrights Center and was a part of the 2010 - 2011 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Since 2007 Andy has been collaborating with the jazz saxophonist and composer John Ellis. Their first work, Dreamscapes, appeared at The Jazz Gallery in December 2007. Their second work, an hour long chamber piece entitled The Ice Siren, premiered in May 2009.

Andy holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins. Subsequently, he studied with the playwright Tina Howe at Hunter College where he was the recipient of the John Golden Award and the Zarkower award for playwriting.

Andy has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Rochester, Marymount College, The Ohio State University, and Sewanee: The University of the South.

A native New Yorker, Andy lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Mobro: My third collaboration with John Ellis. We'll be reprising this piece at the Jazz Gallery this December. For more info, please visit: www.mobromusic.com

Ranch Home: I'm working to adapt this play for the screen.

This Is My Office. I have written a new one man show inspired by my LMCC Office space. It is designed to be performed both in theatres and site-specifically. Check back for more details on future productions.

Loop Tape: I will be revising this play, written in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, in the coming months.

The Dowager: This is a new one woman show. It will be workshopped at the Playwrights Center in November 2011.