ABOUT
Interdisciplinary artist. Director. Writer. Dramaturg.
Working across theatre, installation, and collaborative performance.
Supporting artists and organisations through coaching and consultancy.
Andrea’s practice creates collaborative, experiential work that brings people together to reflect, challenge, and reimagine social, political, and environmental futures.
A recipient of the Jerwood Live Work Award and Genesis Future Directors Award, she is currently a Director Fellow at the National Theatre of Scotland and works internationally as a theatre director and dramaturg.
Andrea’s Bolivian and Chinese heritage informs her approach to storytelling and her work with artists and communities from underrepresented backgrounds.
She is the founder of Pacha People, an interdisciplinary company creating community-driven art for social change.
Alongside her artistic work, she supports artists and organisations as a coach, consultant, and educator.
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Andrea is a UK-based theatre director working in contemporary theatre and new writing, with a practice spanning experimental forms and radical reimaginings of classics. Her practice spans devised and text-based projects, with a focus on work that opens new perspectives and takes audiences to unfamiliar or uncharted places.
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Andrea works as a dramaturg across script development, R&D, rehearsal processes, and performance. She also works in visual performance and cross-disciplinary arts. Her approach is collaborative, rigorous, and responsive to the needs of each project.
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Andrea supports artists, freelancers, and organisations through creative coaching, consultancy, and dramaturgy — supporting the development of ideas, creative practice, and projects from early conception through to delivery.
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Andrea has worked as an educator and facilitator from early education to university level. She designed and leads the Playwriting and New Work programme at East 15 Acting School (BA Acting International), and has guest lectured at Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the University of Glasgow.
Her teaching spans devising, playwriting, acting, dramaturgy, and directing, with experience supporting neurodiverse, d/Deaf, and disabled learners
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Andrea is a writer whose work has been published and performed internationally.
Her short play Beginnings (Arts & Climate, 2024) featured in a published anthology All Good Things Must Begin and was performed in Canada, Italy, and the UK. Her play Landforms appears in Ten Short Plays on the Climate Crisis (2025).
She has received commissions from Good Chance Theatre (PACHA, 2022), New Earth Theatre (God & Monster, 2020), and the Young Vic Theatre (Endings, 2023), currently in development as a full-length work.
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Jerwood Live Work Award
Genesis Future Directors Award
Young Vic Theatre for ‘The Earthworks’ by Tom Morton-SmithCurrently Director Fellow at the National Theatre of Scotland
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