Andrea Stolowitz

Andrea Stolowitz

Andrea Stolowitz is a playwright working in traditional and experimental theater and opera. Andrea’s work embraces bold theatricality ranging from intimate portrayals of the human condition to the intersection of national history on private lives. Andrea is a member of New Dramatists class of 2026, The Lacroute Playwright at Artists Repertory Theatre, and an international teaching artist and collaborating...
Andrea Stolowitz is a playwright working in traditional and experimental theater and opera. Andrea’s work embraces bold theatricality ranging from intimate portrayals of the human condition to the intersection of national history on private lives. Andrea is a member of New Dramatists class of 2026, The Lacroute Playwright at Artists Repertory Theatre, and an international teaching artist and collaborating writer with Hand2Mouth. Andrea splits her time between Cork, Ireland; Berlin, Germany; and Portland, OR. Andrea is also very, very funny.

Plays

  • Recent Unsettling Events by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 11
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: college, American politics + 6 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: college, American politics, cultural identity, sexual politics, identity politics, socio-economic status, intergenerational conflicts, American culture
    When a small New England liberal arts college erupts in student protests over its required Western Civilization class, identity politics, free speech, and what it means to change the status quo are called into question. This play draws its inspiration from real-life events.
    https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/PEN_campus_report_06.15.2017.pdf

  • The Berlin Diaries by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 9
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: intergenerational trauma, humor + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: intergenerational trauma, humor, Jewish, History, Germany, Children of Holocaust Survivors
    The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost,...
    The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books?

    In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters and locations at the border of reality and memory and the intersection of national history and private lives.
  • Successful Strategies by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: wine, oregon + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, farce, romantic comedy
    Keyword: wine, oregon, love, Farce, wine making, agriculture
    In this raucous free-wheeling comedy inspired by the Marivaux farce by the same name, three-time Oregon Book Award winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz creates a hilarious new play about love and winemaking in the Pinot Noir laden land of the Willamette Valley. Successful Strategies is set on a vineyard just before the grape harvest and follows three couples falling in and out of love, into the arms of others,...
    In this raucous free-wheeling comedy inspired by the Marivaux farce by the same name, three-time Oregon Book Award winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz creates a hilarious new play about love and winemaking in the Pinot Noir laden land of the Willamette Valley. Successful Strategies is set on a vineyard just before the grape harvest and follows three couples falling in and out of love, into the arms of others, and then eventually back to the the one they truly love. The play asks pointed questions about the nature of love, its staying power over time and why it hurts so much all while creating a delightful parallel to the specificity of the world of wine making. An extremely funny comedy, Successful Strategies delights the heart and mind.
  • Ithaka by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: women, war + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: women, war, veterans, odyssey, Greek mythology
    Marine Captain Elaine Edwards has just returned from her latest tour in Afghanistan but this time things are different; home doesn’t feel right and nothing makes sense. After a blow up fight with her husband propels her to skip town, she undertakes an Odyssean journey through the American landscape battling her monsters, trying to find her way home.
  • ANTARKTIKOS by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Exploration, Antarctica + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Exploration, Antarctica, mother and daughter, death, writing
    Somewhere between Oregon and Antarctica lie several points on a continuum: Susan, a writer at an artists residency at the South Pole; Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British Antarctic expedition of 1912; and Hilary, Susan’s 21-year-old daughter. When an insomniac EMT named Alex becomes the hapless link among them, time collapses, geographies blend and destinies emerge.
  • Knowing Cairo by Andrea Stolowitz
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Jewish, elderly + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Jewish, elderly, caregiving, mother and daughter, African American, race relations
    Rose, an elderly German-Jewish New Yorker, is a screamer. Approaching the big 8-0, she has managed to scare away an array of caretakers with her overwhelming antics. That is until her busy psychoanalyst daughter hires Winsome, an African American woman, who proves to be Rose’s match. When Lydia realizes how close the two have become, she suspects Winsome of being a clever grifter, but are her suspicions based...
    Rose, an elderly German-Jewish New Yorker, is a screamer. Approaching the big 8-0, she has managed to scare away an array of caretakers with her overwhelming antics. That is until her busy psychoanalyst daughter hires Winsome, an African American woman, who proves to be Rose’s match. When Lydia realizes how close the two have become, she suspects Winsome of being a clever grifter, but are her suspicions based on truth, or merely produced by jealousy? Alternately funny, moving and disturbing, this play raises questions of trust, race, and family obligation.