Andre Lancaster, Artistic & Managing Director

Andre is an activist, playwright, director and a proud runaway Texan. He 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. In 2006, he directed the premiere production of Andrea E. Davis's A Love Like Damien's at WOW Cafe Theatre.

Past honors include: HERE Arts Center Supported Artist Award, Our Word Playwright (Columbia University, Writing Division), and NYU Wagner's Social Justice Fellowship which he used to found Freedom Train. He studied Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin.He has taught I Am A Writer, a playwriting curriculum for new writers, at Booklyn Artists Alliance and Sadie Nash Leadership Project.

He has been featured in New York Amsterdam News, The Loop, and WBAI 99.5 Pacifica Radio’s Wake Up Call.

In his spare time, Andre throws vinyl (downtempo + chicago house) down on his 1s and 2s at home. He is also an avid Houston Rockets fan.

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[Read Andre's Director Q&A about A Love Like Damien's]

On the Radio: Andre talks James Baldwin and Freedom Train on WBAI's Wake Up Call
[WBAI, New York - 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio]
Right click to download and scroll to 39:00 mark.

Feature: Brooklyn Playwright uses theater to push social commentary.
[The New York Amsterdam News]