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”). He left a tenured position in academia in 2006 to take up a new career as a novelist but found himself instead drawn to playwriting.

Among Andrew's full-length plays, THE RIMSKY-FOGELMAN was the opening night selection for The Road Theatre Company's 2023 New Play reading series (Los Angeles), and the play also had a public reading in New York City, produced by the American Renaissance Theater Company for its Fall 2023 public reading series. THE RIMSKY-FOGELMAN was a Finalist for the 2023 Todd McNerney Playwriting Award and a Semi-Finalist for the 2023 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. LEONARDO'S VIRGIN was a Final Round Nominee for the 2023 American Association of Community Theatre New Play competition, and will be excerpted in The Best Men's Stage Monologues, 2023 (Smith & Kraus); SHYLOCK THE FIRST was a “Top 6” Finalist for the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest 2021 and is excerpted in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2020; The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022 and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2022 (Smith & Kraus); LEONARDO'S VIRGIN was a Final Round Nominee for the American Association of Community Theatre 2023 New Play Competition; GREAT ROLES FOR OLD ACTRESSES is excerpted in Best Women's Monologues of 2019 (Smith & Kraus) and The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays, 2019 (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books); 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, was a Finalist (First Runner-Up) for the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Award (American Blues Theater), is excerpted in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues, 2015 (Smith & Kraus), 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 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, the Orlando Shakespeare Theater's 2014 Playfest! and Theatre Harrisburg's 2016 New Works Festival, and a Finalist, the Hive Collaborative's Inaugural Play Festival, 2018.

Andrew's one-act plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Miami, Denver, Tucson, 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; Finalist, 2018 National Award for Short Playwriting – 30 Finalists of 800+ scripts submitted; Finalist, 2019 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival – 30 finalists of 900+ scripts submitted); and the award-winning drama MASHA: CONDITIONS IN THE HOLY LAND, 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 2013 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.

Andrew Heinze belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and PEN, and he is Resident Dramaturg of the American Renaissance Theater Company (NYC). 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: andrewheinze.com