Andy Paris

Andy Paris has made a career of developing new works for the stage and screen, including The Laramie Project (Emmy nomination), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman, Lucie Tiberghien’s The Quiet Room, and Innocents by Rachel Dickstein. As a writer/director Andy created The Fanmaker’s Inquisition, adapted from the novel by Rikki Ducornet. He also developed Goldstar Ohio by Michael Tisdale, directing the stage version at Cleveland Public Theatre, and the short film starring Bill Irwin, Alison Pill, Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Emerson. He is also the writer of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an Epilogue to The Laramie Project. For The Women’s Project, he wrote The Corporate Carnival, which was presented in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center. Andy was invited to participate in The Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2008. As an actor he has performed in countless plays in New York, regionally and in Europe. Regionally, he has been seen at Playmaker’s Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Theatre Virginia, Berkeley Rep and La Jolla Playhouse. He performed in OR, by Liz Duffy Adams at The Women’s Project in 2009. He has also been the recipient of two AUDIE Awards for his audiobook narrations. As an original member of Tectonic Theatre Project, Andy has worked under the mentorship of Mr. Kaufman, and now teaches the techniques which he and Tectonic developed over the past couple decades. He has taught workshops at New York University, DePaul University, Naropa Institute, and in Osaka, Japan, among others. Andy grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a graduate of NYU.