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Artist Bio

Born and bred in the farming community of Porterville, CA, I received four grants for my creative work from the Flora and William Hewlett and Zellerbach Foundations. As playwright-in-residence from 1996 to 2002 at the Speakeasy Theater, I wrote and had five plays produced: SURVIVAL OF THE WEIRDEST, FIRST TIME, BRAIN_IN_A_BOX, JANE AUSTEN IN BERKELEY, and AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. In 2015, funded by a grant from ODC SF, I crafted choreography using script-writing techniques. The resulting pieces won ODC San Francisco’s “Take 5” choreography competition. One piece, Call Me Ishwhale,” became the finale of a fifth play, THE MOBY DICK DIARIES shown at the Marsh, Exit Theater, and The Garage. Just before Covid struck, I produced a solo show series, “Two by Two,” to workshop my next play, THE RIVER RAT CLUB. Last summer I attended the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and workshoped some of my current work, THE AGED OF AQUARIUS, directed by the incomparable Leonard Pitt, which will be at the Monkey House as a work-in-progress and in August at the SF Fringe Festival.

Other  Writing, Performing, Choreography                               

Frustrated with not being able to perform during the pandemic I turned my hand, briefly, to video receiving two commissions from LunaSeas for two five-minute silent films in 2019 and 2020 shown at an outdoor festival in Fort Collins, Co. In Berkeley, I’ve been a regular guest artist for Terrain Dance and Theater Collective at Dance-a-rama performances at Eighth Street Studios and performed excerpts from THE MOBY DICK DIARIES for the Jump! Series (2013) ATLAS showcase (2013) San Francisco Theater Festival (2009), the Society for Children’s Writers and Illustrators conference in Virginia City, Nevada (2009), Works in the Works at Eighth Street Studio (2012), and Berkeley Community Media Public Television Station (aired November 2012). From 1987 to 2023, I’ve been an in-house and freelance technical writer. See info at andiemock.com.