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Andrew Neisler

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ANDREW NEISLER is an Atlanta-raised, now Brooklyn-based theatre artist and director. Since graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he has worked in the development of many new plays and projects. He is the co-director and founder of Fresh Ground Pepper, a monthly new-work series devoted to providing emerging artists a space for experimentation, feedback, and growth. Under Fresh Ground Pepper he has curated and presented works-in-development from over two-hundred New York City writers, directors, actors, dancers, musicians, and more in just over one year. Andrew has a strong belief in collaborative development and a conviction that an impassioned community is at the core of art and the process of making it. As a director, inspired by well-known and classic source texts, he seeks to find the narrative thread that runs deepest in the human condition. He often works with a writer and ensemble of actors to develop new scripts from old stories. Heavily influenced by fairy tales, myths, fables, and classic literature, some of his most recently directed new plays were developed from such sources as Peter Pan, ghost towns of the old West, Animal Farm, and the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, with a Hansel and Gretel project in development.

His recent production of Our Farm at Underground Arts in Philadelphia was called “smart, off-beat, funny, and tense” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Other recent directing credits in New York include Our Farm at the Cherry Pit and the Tank, There Is No Isabelle with Fresh Ground Pepper, Chekhov’s Ivanough at The Tank, The Christmas Story at St. Bart’s Cathedral, Black Canyon City at breedingground’s Spring Fever Festival, Baby Anger as part of Naked from the Vault at The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, The Forgetting of Things at The Bushwick Starr, and Poe at the Brooklyn Lyceum. In addition, Andrew has directed numerous readings and showings of brand new one-act and full-length plays from developing writers, as well as children’s theatre, sketch comedy, and cabaret. He has assisted such directors as Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall, Off-Broadway), Anne Kauffman, Doug Hughes, Robert Moss, Stephen Belber, Mary Robinson, and Tim Harbaugh. He is also the director of the popular musical sketch-comedy group Political Subversities, a constantly evolving cabaret of darkly funny political songs and sketches, devised entirely by the company. Other than theatre: Andrew also reads a lot, spends time with the people he loves, works on his future plans for becoming a drag queen, and eats chocolate.

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