Andrea Stolowitz is an internationally produced playwright and librettist working across traditional and experimental theater, documentary and devised performance, and opera. Her work ranges from intimate dramas to formally adventurous theatrical experiences, exploring the ways history, politics, and memory enter our private lives.A three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award in Drama, Andrea recently completed her nine-year playwright residency at New Dramatists (NYC). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the artistic director of Andrea Stolowitz Theatre Projects, the producing home for her creative work.

Andrea is also very, very funny.

I joined Brian James Polak on his podcast, The Subtext for a wide-ranging conversation about making theater, home, investigation, and the stories that shape my work. Have a listen.

The Berlin Diaries is now available for world-wide licensing from Concord Theatricals! The Washington Post calls the play “a twisting and resonant search for lost family” and the Oregon Arts Watch writes, “engrossing and surprisingly funny… a play about memory and loss and the force of history, and about the limitations and possibilities of the theatre itself.”

These are the projects keeping me up at night.

Andrea Stolowitz Gets Yelled at by Jews in Lobbies (in development): A playwright sets out to make a documentary play about the Jewish community in Cork, Ireland. Then the war in Gaza begins, and the playwright is forced into her own story. Developed in the US with Solas Nua Theatre, Wax Factory, New Dramatists, and under the title Numbered be Our Days in Ireland with The Cork Theatre Collective, Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Abbey Theatre Literary and New Work Department, and the Cork Midsummer Festival.

Earthnauts (in development): The last two members of an intentional community face the limits of their fifty-year experiment. A play with music created at the Stillwrights silent writing residency and developed at New Dramatists.

The Next Tomorrow (in development): It’s 1979. A scientist, an activist, and a politician begin a ten-year quest to create an actionable response to climate change. They almost succeed. A commission from the Lucille Lortel Alcove Project.