About Andrea Lepcio

Playwright Librettist Screenwriter

I create plays, musicals, and screenplays on my own and collaboratively.

I write out of a need to make sense of the world. I find myself worrying about our planet, our choices, our inability to unite. I muck through the damage I witness in hopes reparation is possible. My subjects include climate change, gender, baseball, justice, insurgency, friendship, love, hate, race, and the human experience. Intrigued by form, my plays are structurally inventive. I write seeking an intimate connection with my fellow theatre makers and my audience. I write to be less alone.

My play The Last Jew was a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chamber Playwriting Award. I won the Maine Literary Award for Drama for my solo play Human in 2022 and was a finalist with The Last Jew in 2024. New Surry Theatre produced Human starring - me! - in 2021. My climate change play, World Avoided, was commissioned by Sloan/EST and presented in a reading by EST as part of the First Lights Festival in 2017 and 2019. I was a playwright in residence at Acadia National Park in 2018. Strait of Gibraltar had a second production at American Stage in May of 2018 and premiered at Synchronicity Theatre in March 2017. The play was developed at Naked Angels, Lark Play Development Center, Geva Theatre Center and Forward Flux Productions. Venus Theatre produced a second production of Tunnel Vision in May 2017, and Off the Wall in Pittsburgh produced the first production in October of 2015. The play was workshopped at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, New Georges, and New Perspectives. The World Premiere of Dinner at Home between Deaths was produced by Indi Chi Productions at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles in April 2016. It was developed and read at Naked Angels and Lark Play Development Center. Looking for the Pony was a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and for the NEA Outstanding New American Play Award. It was presented in a "Rolling World Premiere" Off-Broadway at Vital Theatre Company in New York City and Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta in 2009. The play has received one international and four additional regional productions. Me You Us Them was developed with TerraNova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group and at the Lark Play Development Center. Central Avenue Breakdown (book by Kevin Ray and Andrea Lepcio with additional story by Suellen Vance and music/lyrics by Kevin Ray) was performed at the Daegu International Musical Festival, New York Music Theatre Festival and Fwd Theatre in Chicago. The Ballad of Rom and Julz (book by Andrea Lepcio, lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis, and music by Brooke Fox) was presented in a concert reading at Bard Summerscape in July 2010.

My plays and musicals have been produced and developed at HERE, Manhattan Theatre Source, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks, Titans Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY; Bloody Unicorn, Goodspeed Opera House, Hangar Theatre, Miller Theatre, Provincetown Theatre Company, and Trustus Theatre, regionally and The Little Theatre Group of Costa Rica, internationally. I am an alumna of the Lark’s Playwrights’ Workshop, the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab, and BMI Librettist Program. My screenplay, A September Spring, won the Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, my short plays and monologues have been published in Plays and Playwrights 2003, Estrogenius, lichen and by Smith & Kraus. I was a founder of the Mint Theatre Company where I produced the World Premiere of Austin Pendleton’s Uncle Bob.

I was a Dramatists Guild Fellow and for ten-years loved being the Fellows Program Director. I currently teach for the Dramatists Guild Institute/Play Penn and College of the Atlantic. I earned my M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic. I live in Bar Harbor, Maine, the traditional and unceded land of the Wabanaki people.

I bring my deep love of craft into my coaching practice, working with memoirists, novelists, playwrights, and nonfiction writers to move their projects from 'idea' to 'finished.' I am especially proud of the sheer volume of words and pages my writers are currently generating. I know what it takes to be a successful, working writer, and I am here to help you navigate the path to your own completion.

Representation
Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.
1115 Broadway, 12th floor
New York, NY 10010
212-842-9030
elaine@edevlinlit.com

A Note on My Process: I am a writer who moves. When I’m not at my desk, I’m deeply involved in the strength training world (which tends to dominate my social media!). I bring that same athletic discipline to my coaching. I typically work with one writer at a time via Zoom, phone, or in person.

My goal isn't just to "critique"—it’s to inspire, cajole, provoke, tease, coax, incite, and otherwise encourage you to do your best writing...and a lot of it. If you want someone to help you generate a lot of pages and give you honest, deep feedback, let's see if we're a fit.