Amanda L. Andrei is a playwright, literary translator, and theater critic/journalist residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington DC. She writes epic, irreverent plays that center the concealed, wounded places of history and societies from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women, and she co-translates from Romanian to English with her father, Codin Andrei. Her plays have been produced by Relative Theatrics and developed with Boston Court, NY Classical Theater, La MaMa, Echo Theatre, Circle X, The Vagrancy, Pasadena Playhouse, Artists at Play, and more. Her play MAMA, I WISH I WERE SILVER won the 2022 Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting and was a Finalist for the 2023 Blue Ink Award. Her other work has received finalist status with the Princess Grace Award, Eugene O’Neill Conference, Playwrights Realm, and Ashland Festival. Excerpts of her translations from the plays of Tatiana Niculescu and Oana Hodade have appeared in Asymptote Journal and Another Chicago Magazine. Her theatre critique has been published in American Theatre Magazine, Rappler, Howl Round, and Stage Raw, and reviews of translated literature and poetry have appeared in Hopscotch Translation, Barrelhouse Magazine, and more. She was named one of three 2023 Rising Leaders of Color by Theatre Communications Group and is an alum of the National Critics Institute, the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference (Katharine Bakeless Nason scholar), Ragdale (Sylvia Clare Brown Fellow), Hedgebrook, Peter Bullough Foundation, Sewanee, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and VONA. MA: Georgetown University, MFA: University of Southern California. 

Get in touch @ www.amandalandrei.com