Andrew received his B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, his M.F.A. in acting from Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre School, and his Ph.D. from SEC rival Louisiana State. He worked for ten years in Los Angeles as a lighting technician on feature films, commercials, and music videos, and he won regional film festival awards for his two shorts, To Each His Own and Gun Nuts, which he produced and directed. Andrew has some screen credits, is an inactive member of SAG and AFTRA, and he was a member of several L.A. theatre companies.

Here at U.K. Andrew has directed Summertime and The Tempest for the main stage, and he directed The Belle of Amherst which toured area high schools. Andrew teaches undergraduate courses in acting and voice, and graduate courses in dramatic literature and Asian theatre. His research interests include voice pedagogy, western classical acting, Chinese theatre and performance, and dramatic literature. Andrew regularly presents papers at theatre conferences and is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for Theatre Research, and the Association of Asian Performance. His articles and reviews may be found in The Drama Review, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Journal, Text and Presentation, Voice and Speech Review, and Postmodern Culture.

Recently Andrew was dramaturge for Swine Palace Productions’China tour of The Heidi Chronicles.