Andrew Case

Andrew Case

Andrew Case writes books and plays about police, crime, and injustice. He investigated police abuse for a decade in New York and served as the judicial clerk in the racial profiling trial of Joe Arpaio. His critically-acclaimed books and award-winning plays reflect a post-Ferguson perspective on criminal justice and policing.

His play THE RANT, based on his ten years of experience investigating...
Andrew Case writes books and plays about police, crime, and injustice. He investigated police abuse for a decade in New York and served as the judicial clerk in the racial profiling trial of Joe Arpaio. His critically-acclaimed books and award-winning plays reflect a post-Ferguson perspective on criminal justice and policing.

His play THE RANT, based on his ten years of experience investigating police misconduct for the City of New York, was produced at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, New Theatre in Miami, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, and Mary-Arrchie Theatre in Chicago. THE RANT is published by DPS.

Other plays have been produced at numerous venues in New York and at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. His plays have been developed at the O'Neill Theatre Center, the Atlantic Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Primary Stages, where he was a member of the New American Writers Group. He has received a Samuel Goldwyn award for screenwriting and is a member of PEN America Center.

Plays

  • The Rant by Andrew Case
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: police, Race + 2 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: police, Race, police brutality, government
    A taut drama exploring racial bias and the slippery path to justice. One summer night in Brooklyn, a sixteen year-old boy is gunned down by the police. When the department closes ranks around the accused officer, an investigator assigned to the shooting takes what she knows to a tabloid reporter. But she quickly learns that the story she fed to the press is still only part of the truth. Alone, she must wade...
    A taut drama exploring racial bias and the slippery path to justice. One summer night in Brooklyn, a sixteen year-old boy is gunned down by the police. When the department closes ranks around the accused officer, an investigator assigned to the shooting takes what she knows to a tabloid reporter. But she quickly learns that the story she fed to the press is still only part of the truth. Alone, she must wade through prejudice, deceit, and a volley of anonymous threats to find where culpability and truth really lies.

    Reviews:

    “The moral dilemmas in The Rant are awesome in their current relevance.” Broad Street Review, Philadelphia
    “In Case's story there are no absolute truths. The characters' fears and life experiences influence their perceptions of what occurred. . . . In his sharp new play, Case challenges us to examine how our own prejudices affect our most firmly held beliefs.” Philadelphia Weekly

    “Case wants to make us wonder, wants us to assemble the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle without a proscribed final form.” Miami Herald
    “The script and the performances are undeniably moving and thought-provoking. Patrice DeGraff-Arenas' opening monologue of the anguished mother describing the killing in her statement to the investigator is electrifying. Reiss Gaspard delivers an equally anguished closing aria, a police officer's mea culpa that gets us as close to the truth as we're going to get.” South Florida Sun-Sentinal
    (Nominee, Best New Play, South Florida)

    Published by Dramatists Play Service, available at:
    http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=4109
  • The Electric Century by Andrew Case
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: biography, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: History, Gilded Age + 3 more
    Genre: biography, drama, melodrama, period, political
    Keyword: History, Gilded Age, Race, Edison, murder
    THE ELECTRIC CENTURY is an historical fantasy imagining an affair between the Thomas Edison and Belle da Costa Greene, the curator of the JP Morgan library, who curated one of the greatest art collections of the Gilded Age aristocracy while concealing her black identity.

    The play is set in the manic world of late nineteenth century New York, a world of Bowery Boys, decadent tycoons, the Draft...
    THE ELECTRIC CENTURY is an historical fantasy imagining an affair between the Thomas Edison and Belle da Costa Greene, the curator of the JP Morgan library, who curated one of the greatest art collections of the Gilded Age aristocracy while concealing her black identity.

    The play is set in the manic world of late nineteenth century New York, a world of Bowery Boys, decadent tycoons, the Draft Riots, and a mysterious regimental interloper.

    THE ELECTRIC CENTURY romps through history while asking what it means to create--to create science, to create culture, or to create a self--in the endlessly destructive world of the original one-percenters.
  • Historic Times by Andrew Case
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, period
    Genre: dark comedy, period
    An imagined alternate history in Los Angeles, where critical theorist Theodor Adorno navigates a world of symbols run by shallow powerful people and finds himself aligned with another brilliant distraught exile, Dorothy Parker.

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  • Recent Unsettling Events by Andrea Stolowitz
    19 Apr. 2019
    “ Recent Unsettling Events takes a deep hard look at questions of campus speech, re-examination of the Western Canon, and every facet of privilege. And it does so in a brisk, entertaining way that offers no answers, engages audiences, and promotes meaningful conversation. A standout. ”