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, 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...

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.

Scripts

Ventnor

by Andrea Fiest Stein

Synopsis

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...

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

Synopsis

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...

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

Synopsis

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!

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

Synopsis

Ginger and Josie, two sisters, meet for coffee so that Ginger can convince Josie to have a face-lift, just like her.

Ginger and Josie, two sisters, meet for coffee so that Ginger can convince Josie to have a face-lift, just like her.