ABOUT ANDREA CIANNAVEI

Andrea Ciannavei is a writer, actor, teacher, producer, and political activist.

TV: Co-Executive Producer on The Corps (Netflix/Sony), Mayans MC (FX Networks), The Path (Hulu), Last Men Out (National Geographic); American Odyssey (NBC Universal), Copper (BBC America), Borgia (Canal Plus). She has optioned her pilot Life Support with Universal TV with Jessica Goldberg as showrunner in summer 2021.

Plays: The Winstons, one-act play commissioned by Hangar Theater, Deep Trees, The Hard Sell, 7 Captiva Road, and Pretty Chin Up which received a development production at LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Directors: Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz) at The Public Theater. 

Publications: Pretty Chin Up (Playscripts, Inc.) She has also been published in DAME Magazine.

For a decade, Andrea produced the Helen Deutsch Writing Workshops (aka Veterans Writing Project): free writing workshops for wounded warriors returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as their family caregivers) in Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, New York, Los Angeles, and the American Military Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Sponsored by the Writers’ Guild Initiative and in partnership with Wounded Warrior Project. This workshop has expanded to include Witness to Innocence which advocates for death row exonerees. 

In addition to teaching privately since 2005, Andrea has taught master classes and been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, Chapman University, Snow College and UC San Diego. She has been teaching writers how to work with beats and outlines exclusively to prepare them for working in writers’ rooms professionally since 2015.

Education: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing Program and went on to Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellowship 2008-2010. 

Proud member of WGA. Proud board member of Writers Guild Initiative and Empower Survivors Now.

Representation: Tim Phillips and Allan Haldeman, UTA | Management: Adam Riback | Echo Lake

FREE PLAYS

Where’s my roy cohn?

Download and perform this short play adaptation of the Mueller Report. 20 characters. Pole dancing. Line stepping. Cross dressing. Characters include The Pee Tape, James Comey’s Twitter Account, Hillary’s 30,000 Emails, Putin in a Judo Gi on a bear, and a murder of pussies that grab back Gangnam Style.

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