Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider is mostly interested in how humans telling stories about ourselves to each other can make us better at being humans. And how much the second law of thermodynamics and grief have in common.

He is an OBIE award-winning, Drama Desk-nominated performer, writer, and interactive-electronics artist creating original works for theater, dance, sound, video, installation and public art since 2003.

Andrew’s work uses new and old, high and low tech - from Wave Field Synthesis arrays and Volumetric Lighting displays - to literal smoke and mirrors. He is interested in the edges of human perception, using science as a blueprint for staging, and above all, the question of - how does it make you feel?

Original works include HERE (upcoming Jacob’s Pillow commission) NOWISWHENWEARE (2023 - BAM and ongoing tour); »remains« (2020 - Radialsystem, Berlin) commissioned by the Sasha Waltz and Guests Dance company; NERVOUS/SYSTEM (2018 - BAM Next Wave); AFTER (2018 - Under the Radar, The Public Theater); YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award, 2016 Drama Desk nom); DANCE/FIELD (2014 - Roulette); among others.

He was a 2019 Professor of the Practice and Visiting Fellow in Theater Arts and Performance Studies through the Brown Arts Initiative at Brown University. BFA: Theater Arts - Illinois Wesleyan Univ. MPS: Interactive Telecommunications - NYU.

Andrew is a member of the Digital Future’s cohort at Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center’s Collider cohort, the Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Arts Technologies Lab inaugural cohort, the arts incubator ONX, was a Sundance “Art of the Practice” fellow, and has received a fellowship from the Junge Akademie / Akademie Der Künste in Berlin. He teaches a recurring class on original-flavor reality at the Interactive Telecommunications Program and mentors for Theater Mitu’s Hybrid Arts Lab. Wooster Group company member 2007-14. More at www.andrewjs.com.