Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider is mostly interested in how humans telling stories about ourselves to each other can make us better at being humans. And how much the second law of thermodynamics and grief have in common.

He is an OBIE Award-winning, Drama Desk-nominated performer, writer, director, and interactive-electronics artist creating original works for theater, dance, sound, video, installation, and public art since 2003.

Andrew’s work uses new and old, high and low tech—from Wave Field Synthesis arrays and Volumetric Lighting displays to literal smoke and mirrors. He is interested in the edges of human perception, using science as a blueprint for staging, and above all, the question of—how does it make you feel?

Original works include: NOWISWHENWEARE (2023 - BAM and ongoing tour); »REMAINS« (2020 - Radialsystem, Berlin) commissioned by the Sasha Waltz & Guests Dance company; NERVOUS/SYSTEM (2018 - BAM Next Wave); AFTER (2018 - Under the Radar, The Public Theater); YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award, 2016 Drama Desk nom); DANCE/FIELD (2014 - Roulette); TIDAL (2013 - River to River); and WOW+FLUTTER (2010 - The Chocolate Factory Theater), among others.

Andrew is a member of the arts incubator ONX, the Digital Future’s cohort at Jacob’s Pillow, was a Sundance “Art of the Practice” fellow, and has received a fellowship from the Junge Akademie / Akademie Der Künste in Berlin (2022). He teaches a recurring class on original-flavor reality at the Interactive Telecommunications Program and mentors for Theater Mitu’s Hybrid Arts Lab. Wooster Group company member 2007-14.