About the Artist

Andrew Watring (Andrew) is a Black, Trans theatre director, award-winning playwright, producer, and community advocate from sweet home Huntsville, Alabama. Andrew's career has been dedicated to the creation and continued cultivation of "Shakespeare is a White Supremacist", a theatrical ritual grounded in analyzing and working to reverse Shakespeare’s colonizing effect on the American theatre; most recently staged with Main Street Players (Miami-Dade, FL). Andrew's most recent directing credits include: "Twelfth Night" adapted by Andrew Watring at People's Light, "Draw The Circle" by Mashuq Mushtaq at Hedgerow Theatre, "Twelfth Night O Lo Que Quieras" by Tanaquil Márquez and Liz Filios at Delaware Shakespeare. Andrew was a Resident-Artist for the Yale Dramatic Association; a member of the Directors Lab North; graduate of the Theatre Lab Life Stories Institute; 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 is the Associate Artistic Director at People's Light. Andrew holds a BA in Theatre Arts from American University and an MFA in Directing from Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company. / www.andrewwatring.com

Founded in 2019 by Angela Bey, Upstream Performance Collaborative is a Barrymore Award–winning, Philly-born theatre company dedicated to boundary-breaking new works by emerging and underrepresented artists. Scrappy, experimental, and truth-seeking, Upstream creates vital theatre that goes against the current and to the source of embodied performance. Across original productions, immersive experiments, solo performance, and new play development, Upstream has produced works including "Comet", "The White Feather Project", "WHISPER", "Masc.", and last year’s Philly Fringe reading of "new heaven new earth" with Shakes

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