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Andrew Satio was the Playwright-in-Residence at FaultLine Theater through the National Playwright Residency Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Find out more about his residency experience here and learn about the impact of the program at large here.

Why Andrew Saito, Why Cutting Ball Theater?

15 March 2016

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Andrew

Saito

April 9, 2013

Rob Melrose speaks on what drew him to Andrew and his work and Andrew responds to why The Cutting Ball Theater is a perfect home for him.

"We advertise that we like poetic plays so we get a lot of plays that are just poetry that don't have much of a sense of theatre. Andrew has a great sense of language and a great sense of action and character…he has a great imagination and a loving spirit behind his also very risky, edgy sense of humor."

"I wrote in my proposal that Cutting Ball is the perfect home for me and that's very true for me because essentially their mission is risk."

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