Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Andrea Hart

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006, 2009

Andrea Hart, Berkeley, CA, worked on a series of plays written with and about Bay Area teenagers called the "BayTeen Theater Project." The first play in the series, best.worst.best, premiered in 2008 and was listed as one of the Most Memorable Moments in Art and Entertainment for 2008 by the Marin Independent Journal. Her play dark is a different beast premiered to sold-out houses in San Francisco in 2016. She adapted it into a short film, which was an official selection at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.

Studios

Schelling

Andrea Hart worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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