Andre Lancaster

Andre Lancaster (Artistic Director/Resident Playwright) has written four full-length plays: Hope Courage, The Trumpet Man, Descendants of Freedom: a futuristic queer hip hop odyssey, and I Am Not a Hero. His work has been developed and staged at HERE Arts Center (NYC), BRIC Studio (Brooklyn), Freedom Train Productions (Brooklyn), Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (San Antonio), Hyde Park Theatre (Austin), UT Theatre and Dance Reading Series (Austin), and New Works Festival (Austin). Descendants of Freedom was selected into HERE Art Center's Queer@HERE Festival in 2004. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Freedom Train Productions, a development focused theatre company that promotes new work written by up-and-coming playwrights.

In 2006 his stage direction of Andrea E. Davis's A Love Like Damiens's at WOW Cafe Theatre received an extended run at HERE.

He is a NYU Wagner Social Justice Fellow and studied Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. Andre is also a proud Texan living in Brooklyn and vinyl DJ and promoter for Restless Produxns (NYC).

AUGUST 8-9, 2007
I Am Not A Hero (formerly Super)
by Andre Lancaster
Director: Christopher Burris
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Fort Greene, BK
Featuring: Sean David, James DeLeon*, Shydel James, Sherman Jones Jr., and Penni Danielle Tinsley. (*Appears courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association.)

A queer hate crime witnessed. A documentary film completed. A slave ship rebellion. Can any of this change the future?

Christopher Burris is a stage director, actor, singer, and writer. He has directed productions throughout the country, including: Love's Fire, Hilly Hicks Jr.'s The Home Life of Polar Bears, and George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum at the Old Playmakers Theater in North Carolina. He is currently a member of the First Look Theatre's directing company at NYU's Tisch School, where he has worked with some of the most exciting new playwrights in the theater world. He holds a BA from UNC Chapel Hill, and an MFA from UC San Diego. www.christopherburris.com

2007 Resident Playwrights

Jesse Cameron Alick
Andrea E. Davis
yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Andre Lancaster
Nick Mwaluko