The SoHo Playhouse
Presents
Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2014
The Playwright
Andrew R Heinze
Andrew Heinze made a dramatic choice seven years ago: a highly regarded historian, he left a tenured professorship in San Francisco to embark on a new career as a playwright in New York City. Since then his plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Albuquerque and other regional venues and have won numerous playwriting competitions.
Among Andrew's full-length plays, THE INVENTION OF THE LIVING ROOM won the Texas NonProfit Theatres' 2014 New Play Project competition (World Premiere to be held at the Tyler Civic Theatre); previously it was a Finalist for the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Award given by the American Blues Theater (Chicago), and chosen for the Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Playfest! The Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays; HAMILTON, a tragedy about Alexander Hamilton, was a semi-finalist for the 2012 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and a Finalist for the T. Schreiber Studio's 2012 New Works Festival; PLEASE LOCK ME
AWAY -- a dark comedy about an older woman’s unusual revenge on two adolescent boys who had publicly humiliated her -- was a Finalist in the Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas) 2014 New Works competition. Andrew's one-act plays include the award-winning comedy THE FQ (about obscenity and cable TV), published in Smith & Kraus's THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2011; the award-winning comedy THE BAR MITZVAH OF JESUS GOLDFARB (“Judges’ Choice" and “Audience Choice” for Best Play at the 2011 New York City 15-Minute Play Festival); and the award-winning drama MASHA: CONDITIONS IN THE HOLY LAND, the Jury Prize Winner for Best Script (748 scripts submitted) at the Fusion Theatre Company's 2012 Short Play Festival and a Finalist (30 finalists of 900 scripts submitted) for the Samuel French 2013 Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
Andrew Heinze belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A. Magna Cum Laude) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.).
Visit Andrew R. Heinze at his personal website: andrewheinze.com