Andrea Fiest Stein

Andrea Fiest Stein

2021 Fellowship in Playwriting Recipient, New Jersey Council on the Arts

Ms. Fiest's play, SPEAK FREELY, is a Semi-finalist at The Premiere Stages Play Festival, The Ashland New Plays Festival and the Jewish Playwriting Contest. It is a 2021 Semi-finalist at The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The Jewish Playwriting Contest.

Ms. Fiest's short play, EQUAL...SOMETIMES,...
2021 Fellowship in Playwriting Recipient, New Jersey Council on the Arts

Ms. Fiest's play, SPEAK FREELY, is a Semi-finalist at The Premiere Stages Play Festival, The Ashland New Plays Festival and the Jewish Playwriting Contest. It is a 2021 Semi-finalist at The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The Jewish Playwriting Contest.

Ms. Fiest's short play, EQUAL...SOMETIMES, was read at the Luna Stage 7th Annual New Moon Short Play Festival, West Orange, NJ on May 21, 2019. Her play, THE WEST END BEACH CLUB, was read at The Dramatist Guild Foundation Room in New York City on July 18, 2019.

Playwriting is the third chapter of Ms. Fiest's professional life. After working as a Wall Street tax attorney and investment banker, she is now fully committed to playwriting. She is a member of Arlene Hutton's Playwriting Master Class at The Barrow Group, New York City and routinely has private dramaturgy sessions.

Plays

  • Ventnor by Andrea Fiest Stein
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 2 more
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    Keyword: Complex female leads, Period 1967 + 7 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, period, political
    Keyword: Complex female leads, Period 1967, homophobia, racial inequality, American Assimilation, first generation Jewish Americans, family drama, stepmothers, Motown sound.
    2023 Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

    Anna, a soon-to-be grandmother, visits the summer rental of her youth to recall long repressed memories of a tragedy that altered the rest of her life. Against the backdrop of the 1967 Newark, New Jersey riots, Anna faces her greatest challenge, to truthfully confront the events that caused her family's...
    2023 Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

    Anna, a soon-to-be grandmother, visits the summer rental of her youth to recall long repressed memories of a tragedy that altered the rest of her life. Against the backdrop of the 1967 Newark, New Jersey riots, Anna faces her greatest challenge, to truthfully confront the events that caused her family's implosion. After a lifetime of remorse, can Anna find the strength to forgive herself?
  • Speak Freely by Andrea Fiest Stein
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 2 more
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    Keyword: complex female lead, American Assimilation + 7 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, period, political
    Keyword: complex female lead, American Assimilation, McCarthy era, McCarthyism, American Dream, first generation American, first generation immigrants, American Jews, Russian pogroms
    2021 Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Playwriting, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

    2022 Semi-Finalist Premiere Stages Play Festival
    2022, 2021 Semi-Finalist, Jewish Playwriting Contest, Jewish Plays Project
    2021 Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation

    During the summer of 1951, Shirley, a young wife, allows the FBI into her...
    2021 Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Playwriting, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

    2022 Semi-Finalist Premiere Stages Play Festival
    2022, 2021 Semi-Finalist, Jewish Playwriting Contest, Jewish Plays Project
    2021 Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation

    During the summer of 1951, Shirley, a young wife, allows the FBI into her basement to wiretap the neighbors next door only to discover a deadly secret within her own four walls. Confronted with her husband's harrowing past, she must choose between the social mobility her marriage offers and her own sense of common decency.






  • The West End Beach Club by Andrea Fiest Stein
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9–10
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    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte
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    Keyword: ensemble, Mah Jongg + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte
    Keyword: ensemble, Mah Jongg, Jersey Shore
    Liza teaches in the winter, manages a beach club in the summer and dreams of fulltime freedom year round. But what can she do when her ex, her pseudo-psychic mother, her mooching son and a lost passport block her one chance to break away?

    Jump into her beach club's Mah Jongg Tournament and throw down her bams, craks and dots to win that freedom. All or nothing! Let the games begin!
  • Equal...Sometimes by Andrea Fiest Stein
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Sisters, Beauty and Aging + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Sisters, Beauty and Aging, Face-lift
    Ginger and Josie, two sisters, meet for coffee so that Ginger can convince Josie to have a face-lift, just like her.