Andrew Watring

Andrew Watring

Andrew Watring (Andrew) is a Black trans Object-theatre-creator, director, award-winning playwright, producer, performer, and Anarkata-in-training from sweet home Huntsville, Alabama. Andrew is the Community Programs Creative Director and Resident Associate Director at People's Light. Andrew's career has been dedicated to the creation and continued cultivation of Shakespeare is a White Supremacist, a...
Andrew Watring (Andrew) is a Black trans Object-theatre-creator, director, award-winning playwright, producer, performer, and Anarkata-in-training from sweet home Huntsville, Alabama. Andrew is the Community Programs Creative Director and Resident Associate Director at People's Light. Andrew's career has been dedicated to the creation and continued cultivation of Shakespeare is a White Supremacist, a theatrical ritual grounded in Shakespeare’s colonizing effect on the American theatre; most recently staged with Main Street Players (Miami-Dade, FL). Select directing credits include: The Henriad, Richard III, White Noise, Hamletmachine, Passing: A Stage Play, Coriolanus. Andrew was a member of the Directors Lab North (2021); graduate of the Theatre Lab Life Stories Institute (2019); an Honored Playwright at the New South Young Playwright’s Festival. Andrew founded and served as the Artistic Director of the Fractal Theatre Collective, an anti-capitalist arts organization that embraced community-led, direct action as an integral element of theatrical design. Andrew holds a BA in Theatre from American University, and an MFA from Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company.
https://www.andrewwatring.com/

Plays

  • Shakespeare is a White Supremacist by Andrew Watring
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 4 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, political, verse
    “All these thoughts crawling around in your head – things you just won’t say. I’ll say them for you.”

    A play exploring the psychological, emotional, and racial experiences of people of color as they undergo rehearsals for a community theatre production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a white director and a white actress.

    This script represents one piece and one...
    “All these thoughts crawling around in your head – things you just won’t say. I’ll say them for you.”

    A play exploring the psychological, emotional, and racial experiences of people of color as they undergo rehearsals for a community theatre production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a white director and a white actress.

    This script represents one piece and one iteration of a comprehensive, theatrical ritual grounded in analyzing and reversing Shakespeare’s colonizing effect on the American theatre.
  • The Taming of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: adaptation, commedia dell'arte + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, commedia dell'arte, dark comedy, horror, parody/spoof, satire, tragedy, verse
    A melding of the oft deleted Induction from Taming of the Shrew and the text of Hamlet as clowning, this adaptation focuses on exploding the hazy line between comedy and tragedy, between dreams and reality, and between “madness” and “sanity.” We find ourselves dropped into the story of Christopher Sly, a braggart and a drunk, and the Leading Player and his traveling troupe of trunk-based, mischievous actors. As...
    A melding of the oft deleted Induction from Taming of the Shrew and the text of Hamlet as clowning, this adaptation focuses on exploding the hazy line between comedy and tragedy, between dreams and reality, and between “madness” and “sanity.” We find ourselves dropped into the story of Christopher Sly, a braggart and a drunk, and the Leading Player and his traveling troupe of trunk-based, mischievous actors. As a bit of a game and a bit of a challenge, the troupe plots to prop Christopher Sly up as a Lord and perform for him “a kind of history.” What follows is a mind-melding psychological break-down of the playing space, the performances, and the Leading Player’s psyche. Drawing inspiration from dark comedies like "American Psycho" and "Funny Games," this Hamlet seeks to play, to unnerve, and to achieve a world shift for the ages.
  • The Henriad by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: adaptation, docudrama/historic + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, docudrama/historic, political
    Stretching from the death of King Henry V to the death of King Henry VI, this fast-paced adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part I, II, and III is focused tightly on political machinations, romantic intrigue, and bloody, bloody revenge.
  • Charles Town: A Black. Queer. Providence. Play (DRAFT) by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    10–14
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, musical
    Genre: docudrama/historic, musical
    Black. Queer. Providence. is a theatrical investigation into the cultural history of the Black, queer communities of Providence, Rhode Island, from the years 1776 to the present. Charles Town focuses on the earliest of those communities and the connection between two Black residents of Rhode Island across hundreds of years.
  • Flight Night: Dementophobia by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: horror
    Genre: horror
    "Dementophobia is the clinical term for an excessive or irrational fear of going insane. People with this condition are preoccupied by the upsetting idea that they are going crazy, forgetting things, or that they'll develop a severe mental illness in the future."
  • Flight Night: God Complex by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror
    After a particularly brutal break-up, talented scientist Victoria attempts to build her own comfort.
  • Flight Night: Lie To Me by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy + 1 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy, horror
    A night of Halloween shenanigans unearths a torrent of interpersonal conflict between an expecting couple and their designated third-wheel.
  • Match Game by Andrew Watring
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy
    Two estranged lovers reunite after death, and find themselves playing a game for the fate of their very souls.