Andres Santiago Piña

Andres is a performer, writer, and filmmaker from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with roots in Washington Heights and Harlem. Some credits include The Sun Always Shines for the Cool, Comedy of Errors at The Shakespeare Theater of NJ, La Puta Vida at La Tea, The Seagull at Circle in the Square Theater, Anon’s Gone at National Black Theatre, The Road to Damascus at Strindberg Theatre, Tracks at Davenport Theater, and Othello and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at St. Katherine Theater, Medea, Hamlet, In the Red and Brown Water, Ms. Julie, and Romeo and Juliet. Solo plays performed and written by Andres: On the Shoulders of Monsters (workshop presentation at NYTW), Perfect People, Ordinary, Fuck’ed, and By Chance. In film, he has featured in Crabs in a Barrel, SPIC, and Momento Mori. Andres is authored of short stories–146 Street and Amsterdam, authored collections such as Poems and Misdemeanors, Miss Me with You, and the play The Last Place to Eat Arroz con Pollo. Governors Island Artist Fellowship, memberships at the American Theatre Lab and The Actors Center, founding member of Dominican Artists Collective. Currently, Dominican Writers Association Teaching Artist in Residence. Andres holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University.