DRAMATURG
A collaborative, artist-centered, and practice-based approach — creating space for ideas to be tested, refined, and strengthened over time.
Andrea is a dramaturg working across theatre, live performance, and cross-platform work, supporting projects from early development through to production.
A collaborative, artist-centered, and practice-based approach — creating space for ideas to be tested, refined, and strengthened over time.
Andrea works across script development, R&D, and production, supporting artists and teams to clarify structure, deepen intention, and develop the dramaturgical language of a piece.
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Over six years’ experience working with British and international playwrights across development and production. Collaborations include work with writers on attachment at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre Studio, and New Earth Theatre, and as a reader for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
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Director Fellow at the National Theatre of Scotland, contributing dramaturgical feedback on work in development and supporting pitch and play assessment.
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Alongside her practice, she teaches and lectures at top universities in dramaturgy and new writing, including designing and leading the Playwriting and New Work programme at East 15 Acting School.
Specialisms
Dramaturgical specialisms across different forms, contexts, and approaches — see below.
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Andrea works with international material and through a decolonial lens, supporting the development of work that engages with diverse cultural perspectives. Her lived experience — Bolivian and Chinese, raised in the UK — informs an understanding of storytelling across cultures.
Andrea supports artists to explore Global South structures and forms, with a focus on creating work that is authentic, culturally aware, and resonant.
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Andrea specialises in dramaturgy and performance that engages with the climate crisis. She also develops an ecological approach to dramaturgy, drawing on natural systems to inform form, structure, and creative development.
Her approach combines ecological thinking and reciprocity with practical dramaturgical tools, supporting projects to evolve in responsive and interconnected ways.
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Andrea supports artists working across theatre and interdisciplinary performance, including devised work, playscripts, installations, and immersive projects.
She works with artists to identify the form and medium that best expresses their ideas, including work in non-traditional performance spaces.
For focused script feedback and development, see Script Development →