Andrew Schneider

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 & 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); TIDAL (2013 - River to River); and WOW+FLUTTER (2010 - The Chocolate Factory Theater), 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 University. 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.