Andrew Gall

Andrew Gall (he/him) is a multidisciplinary theatre-maker, director, and playwright based in Richmond, VA. His work has been seen at Firehouse Theatre, Richmond Shakespeare, and Cadence Theatre, where he was a Pipeline New Works Fellow. For over three decades, Andrew has built a reputation for creating bold, genre-defying theatre that fuses literature, punk rock, and regional history into unforgettable live experiences.

Before relocating to Virginia, he co-founded Chicago’s Wing-and-Groove Theatres and led Highland Rep in Western North Carolina. As Producing Artistic Director of North Carolina’s historic Parkway Playhouse for twelve years, he spearheaded major expansions in programming, launched capital campaigns, and guided transformative renovations that revitalized the institution...

Andrew Gall (he/him) is a multidisciplinary theatre-maker, director, and playwright based in Richmond, VA. His work has been seen at Firehouse Theatre, Richmond Shakespeare, and Cadence Theatre, where he was a Pipeline New Works Fellow. For over three decades, Andrew has built a reputation for creating bold, genre-defying theatre that fuses literature, punk rock, and regional history into unforgettable live experiences.

Before relocating to Virginia, he co-founded Chicago’s Wing-and-Groove Theatres and led Highland Rep in Western North Carolina. As Producing Artistic Director of North Carolina’s historic Parkway Playhouse for twelve years, he spearheaded major expansions in programming, launched capital campaigns, and guided transformative renovations that revitalized the institution. Under his leadership, companies have garnered national recognition and significant grant funding from public and private foundations.

A passionate educator and advocate, Andrew has taught theatre at the undergraduate and graduate levels, worked in high schools, and brought performing arts programs into correctional facilities. He has served on boards and grant panels for the North Carolina Arts Council, League of Chicago Theatres, and Southeastern Theatre Conference, and is a past president of the North Carolina Theatre Conference.

Andrew holds degrees from Northern Michigan University and Louisiana Tech University’s School of the Performing Arts, and Augsburg University.

He is the proud father of three remarkable kids, two scrappy dogs, and a newly adopted cat. He lives and works with deep gratitude for the unwavering support and inspiration of his partner, Amanda.

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Scripts

Burial Tax

by Andrew Gall

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy

SEEKING SECOND PRODUCTION
RTCC Award for Best Original Work 2025

Burial Tax is a blistering dark comedy about family, debt, and the toxic gravity of going home. When estranged siblings collide at their crumbling Lake Michigan cottage to scatter their father’s ashes, old scores resurface with a vengeance. Secrets—like a stash of morphine, and a 'lost' gun, spill out as fast as the boxed wine. Over one brutal...

SEEKING SECOND PRODUCTION
RTCC Award for Best Original Work 2025

Burial Tax is a blistering dark comedy about family, debt, and the toxic gravity of going home. When estranged siblings collide at their crumbling Lake Michigan cottage to scatter their father’s ashes, old scores resurface with a vengeance. Secrets—like a stash of morphine, and a 'lost' gun, spill out as fast as the boxed wine. Over one brutal Labor Day weekend, loyalties fracture, marriages buckle, and nostalgia curdles into something more savage. Acidly funny and unexpectedly intimate, Burial Tax is a play about the mess you inherit—and the wreckage you choose to leave behind.

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Manistique

by Andrew Gall

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

Manistique, Michigan. Midnight. A blizzard that won't quit.
A woman walks through it to confront the man who just sat in her bar and lied to her face. They haven't spoken in thirty years and she's not here to catch up.
What starts as an ambush becomes something harder to control. Old debts surface. Things get said that can't get unsaid. And the storm keeps both of them exactly where neither wants to be.

Manistique, Michigan. Midnight. A blizzard that won't quit.
A woman walks through it to confront the man who just sat in her bar and lied to her face. They haven't spoken in thirty years and she's not here to catch up.
What starts as an ambush becomes something harder to control. Old debts surface. Things get said that can't get unsaid. And the storm keeps both of them exactly where neither wants to be.

Walled In

by Andrew Gall

2
Cast Size
1—3
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
satire

Lester has played the game well all his life. At 68 years old he's amassed the rewards of privilege and power that befit his station as a high powered lobbyist, political consultant, and corporate lawyer. In an unexpected turn of the wheel of fortune and with insinuations from people at the top of the food chain of a quick trial, no jail time, and a pardon, Lester agrees to take the fall for his team and keep...

Lester has played the game well all his life. At 68 years old he's amassed the rewards of privilege and power that befit his station as a high powered lobbyist, political consultant, and corporate lawyer. In an unexpected turn of the wheel of fortune and with insinuations from people at the top of the food chain of a quick trial, no jail time, and a pardon, Lester agrees to take the fall for his team and keep his mouth shut about some dubious activities. When Lester ends up behind bars with a mop and bucket cleaning the prison bathrooms at the beginning of a very punitive sentence that will keep him locked up for the rest of his life, he starts demanding some action from his powerful friends. Before he can say "MAGA" and by order of the DOJ, he's reassigned to be a student in the prison education program. As his life outside falls apart and he discovers how fleeting loyalty and promises are, he has to complete reading and writing assignments from Walden; or, Life in the Woods and is drawn kicking and screaming into the transcendental vision of Henry David Thoreau's contemplation of solitude and spirituality.

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