Andrea Kleine is a writer, director, and performance artist. She grew up in Washington, DC and Richmond, VA, and moved to New York in 1987. While still a student, she became active in the Downtown performance scene, performing with numerous experimental theatre and dance companies, as well as creating her own work. The New York Times has described her work as "invigorating" and "impressive." The Village Voice has described Kleine as a "master of expression." Kleine is best known for her experimental and multidisciplinary plays and dance pieces which thematically focus on memory, identity, intimacy, and the failure of language. Her performance works include FLESH FOOD (1997), a macabre farce of art history and vintage horror films, MEMOIR NEVER WAS (1999), exploring Anne Frank and the psychology of confinement, THE PHOTO MORGUE (2000), inspired by tabloid magazines featuring youg women posing for erotic police-scene photos, AUTOPORTRAIT (2000), examining the issue of self-portraiture and persona in performance, CLAUDE (2002), about the life and work of the surrealist photographer Claude Cahun, and WAYWARD GIRLS ASSISTANCE (2002), a Dickensian tale of a girl gang of struggling actresses. Her works have been presented extensively in New York at venues such as Performance Space 122, Dance Theatre Workshop, Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Danspace Project at St Mark's Church, Mabou Mines, Women's Project Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Franklin Furnace/Future of the Present, and the Kitchen. She has also been presented at festivals and venues across the US, Canada, and Europe. From 2003-2006 she took a hiatus from performance to focus on film and writing projects. Her film adaptation of her play Claude was a finalist in the 2004 Slamdance Screenplay Competition and a featured script at the 2005 Independent Feature Project (IFP) Market. She has received numerous commissions, grants, and awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Fox/Samuels Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Music Fund, among others. She has received four MacDowell Colony fellowships, and a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship award in playwriting/screenwriting. In 2007 she collaborated with composer Bobby Previte on the music-theatre piece, THE SEPARATION, co-commissioned by The Walker Art Center and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Kleine and Previte are currently planning two future collaborations: KARAOKE REMIX - a duo performance, and DOOM JAZZ - a live graphic novel based on the imaginary film score by Bobby Previte and Jamie Saft. She recently finished her first novel and is at work on a second book. She lives in New York City. HOME  CONTACT  BIO  SHOP (c) Andrea Kleine, 2008. All rights reserved.