For Bad Hats: New Bad Ideas 2021 (Dramaturg)

Andy is a Toronto based dramaturg, actor, and educator.   He currently serves as dramaturg for Bad Hat’s New Bad Ideas Festival, and associate dramaturg for fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company.  Recently, he served as dramaturg for A Man Walks into a Bar by Rachel Blair, and for Yellow Rabbit by the Silk Bath Collective.  He is a panelist on CBC Radio’s Because News with Gavin Crawford.   In television, he has appeared in LetterKenny (CraveTV), the first and second seasons of comedy series Popporn and Drawn This Way for OUTtv.   He was nominated for the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for the CBC comedy special Gavin Crawford's Wild West (2013).  He holds a MFA in Theatre from York University, where he has taught playwriting and new-play dramaturgy.