Formerly a professor of American History, ANDREW R. HEINZE is the award-winning author of JEWS AND THE AMERICAN SOUL (Publishers’ Weekly choice: “Best Books of 2004”).

In 2006 Andrew left a tenured position in academia and moved to New York City, where he began a new career in playwriting. His first full-length play, TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, a political farce set in the Oval Office in the year 2028 was praised by the Soho Theatre in London as "an accomplished first effort . . . sharp and highly enjoyable repartee . . . very theatrical: fast moving with lots of humour."

Among Andrew's full-length plays, DELETING DAD won the Texas NonProfit Theatres' 2016 New Play Project competition; THE INVENTION OF THE LIVING ROOM won the Texas Nonprofit Theatres' 2014 New Play Project competition; previously it was a Finalist (First Runner-Up) for the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Award given by the American Blues Theater (Chicago), and chosen for the Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Playfest! The Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays; HAMILTON, a tragedy about Alexander Hamilton and his son, was a semi-finalist for the 2012 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and a Finalist for the T. Schreiber Studio's 2012 New Works project; PLEASE LOCK ME AWAY -- a dark comedy about an older woman’s unusual revenge on two adolescent boys who had publicly humiliated her -- was a Finalist for the Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas) 2014 New Works competition; MOSES, THE AUTHOR, a comedy, was produced at the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival, chosen for the Fringe Encore Series and also for the Orlando Shakespeare Theater's 2014 Playfest! His newest work, DELETING DAD, is about a middle-aged man's ordeal coping with the death of his father. And he has completed a new version of his Hamilton tragedy, which is titled THE HEARTBREAKING EXIT OF PHILIP HAMILTON.

Andrew's one-act plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Albuquerque and elsewhere; they include the award-winning comedy THE FQ (about obscenity and cable TV), published in Smith & Kraus's THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2011; the award-winning comedy THE BAR MITZVAH OF JESUS GOLDFARB (“Judges’ Choice" and “Audience Choice” for Best Play at the 2011 New York City 15-Minute Play Festival); and the award-winning drama MASHA: CONDITIONS IN THE HOLY LAND, the Jury Prize Winner for Best Script (748 scripts submitted) at the Fusion Theatre Company's 2012 Short Play Festival and a Finalist (30 finalists of 900 scripts submitted) for the Samuel French 2013 Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.

Andrew Heinze belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and PEN America. He holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A. Magna Cum Laude) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.).

For a complete resume, please visit: www.andrewheinze.com