Andrea Thome

Andrea Thome is a Chilean and Costa Rican playwright born in Madison, Wisconsin. Her plays have been performed at venues all over the United States, and she is founder and co-director of the Fulana media project.

Biography Andrea Thome's mother is from Chile and her father is from Costa Rica and the United States. She considers herself Pan-American and believes that this permeates into her writing. The play touches on themes of leaving home and having to reconcile leaving things behind. Thome discussed in an interview with Two River Theater how it has touched people of different backgrounds, including those who are not children of immigrants but have been politically involved. Thome began writing Pinkolandia as part of the Hispanic Playwrights and Residence Lab at INTAR Theatre in New York. It was chosen for the 2012 Crossing Borders Festival at the Two River Theater and will premiere at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin and 16th Street Theater in Chicago. Fulana is a media collective project that explores issues relevant to Latinos in the United States "using parody and satire as a critical tool."

Thome has received fellowships from New York Film Academy, New York City, the City of Oakland, Lark Play Development Center, INTAR, New York University and the Women’s Project. to develop her latest work, The Necklace of a Dove, which is a multidisciplinary musical work. She still serves as Co-director of Fulana.

Plays Worm Girl - First presented by the Source Theater in Washington DC in 2004 Menomonee Falls to St. Cloud - First presented by the INTAR Theater in New York, NY in May 2008 Global Cooling: The Women Chill - First presented by the Women’s Project Theater in New York, NY in 2008 Undone - First presented at Queens College in New York, NY in Spring 2012 Dream Acts - First presented by the HERE Arts Center Dorothy B Williams Theater New York, NY in 2012 Pinkolandia - First presented by the INTAR Theater in New York, NY in May 2013 Neva - First presented by the Public Theater in New York, NY in March 2013