Andrew W. Smith
Producing Artistic Director
Andrew W. Smith is a co-founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, with whom he has been primary producer for the productions of FUBAR, Terra Nova, Italian American Reconciliation, Savage/Love, In the Boom Boom Room, Zastrozzi, One Flea Spare, Either/Or (NY Fringe 2000), Lion in the Streets, and the world premiere of Sinking Up. With Project Y, he has also been seen as Joe in The Crackwalker, directed the World Premiere of Scapism, produced and led the “Word Series”, an experimental improvisation-based series of performances that used audience feedback to develop a full-length script.
As the Treasurer and Director, Mr. Smith manages the day to day operations and funds of the Corporation.
Acting experience includes regional work: A MidSummer Night’s Dream (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Three Musketeers and Imaginary Invalid (Seattle Repertory Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Arena Stage), Fuddy Meers (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Our Town (Roundhouse Theatre), Arcadia, Stanley, and Mad Forest (Potomac Theatre Project), Wikipedia Plays (Ars Nova), Beau Jest (What Exit?), Corpus Christi (Source Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Washington Shakespeare Company), Crack Between the Worlds (Studio Theatre), Miss Nelson is Missing! (BAPA Stage), and The Real Thing (Olney Center for the Arts). He has toured with The National Players on their 50th anniversary as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac. Film: Shooting Script, Death of a Nation, Under-Ground. TV: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Guiding Light. He received his BA from Middlebury College, Vermont, and his MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.