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Andrea Ciannavei is a writer, actor, teacher, producer, and political activist. TV: Pink Marine (Netflix), Mayans MC (FX Networks), The Path (Hulu), Last Men Out (National Geographic); American Odyssey (NBC Universal), Copper (BBC America), Borgia (Canal Plus). She has optioned her pilot Late Bloomers with Universal TV with Jessica Goldberg as showrunner in summer 2021. Plays: The Winstons, one-act play commissioned by Hangar Theater, Deep Trees, The Hard Sell, 7 Captiva Road, and Pretty Chin Up which received a development production at LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Directors: Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz) at The Public Theater.
Publications: Pretty Chin Up (Playscripts, Inc.) She has also been published in DAME Magazine, Alternet and Flurt Magazine. For a decade, Andrea produced the Helen Deutsch Writing Workshops: free writing workshops for wounded warriors returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as their family caregivers) in Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, New York, Los Angeles, and the American Military Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Sponsored by the Writers’ Guild Initiative and in partnership with Wounded Warrior Project. This workshop has expanded to include Witness to Innocence who advocate for death row exonerees. In addition to teaching privately, Andrea has taught master classes and been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, Chapman University, Snow College and UC San Diego.
Education: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing Program and went on to Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellowship 2008-2010. Proud member of WGA.
Bullpen Sessions Episode 40: Melissa Friedman
Bullpen Sessions Episode 39: France-Luce Benson
Bullpen Sessions Episode 38: Juan Villa
Bullpen Sessions Episode 37: Purva Bedi
Bullpen Sessions Episode 36: Florencia Lozano
Bullpen Sessions Episode 35: Felix Solis
Bullpen Sessions Episode 34: Andrea Dymond
Bullpen Sessions Episode 33: Lisa Ramirez
Bullpen Sessions Episode 32: Victor Malana Maog
Bullpen Sessions Episode 31: Elyzabeth Wilder
Bullpen Sessions Episode 30: Jessica Asch
Bullpen Sessions Episode 28: Celeste Lagrotteria
Bullpen Sessions Episode 27: Jenni Werner
Bullpen Sessions Episode 25: Kerry O'Malley
Bullpen Sessions Episode 24: Stephanie Klapper
Bullpen Sessions Episode 26: Michael Stuhlbarg
Bullpen Sessions Episode 22: Christine Bruno
Bullpen Sessions Episode 21: Estefanía Fadul
Bullpen Sessions Episode Six: Matthew Hallock
Bullpen Sessions Episode 15: Laura Jellinek
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