ABOUT
Casey Jay Andrews is a multi-award winning writer, designer and theatre-maker based in the South East of England (though her heart is planted firmly in Edinburgh's Old Town). She is currently working as Assistant Head of Design at Punchdrunk International, and her previous design work includes The Immersive Great Gatsby.
As a writer Casey won a Fringe First Award for THE ARCHIVE OF EDUCATED HEARTS at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It had its North American debut in December 2019 at The Soho Playhouse New York, the same theatre where "Fleabag" and "Hannah Gadsby's "Nanette" debuted in NYC. The Archive also won a Best Theatre Award (Adelaide Fringe), Critic's Choice (The National Scot), and was listed in the Scotsman's "TOP TEN returning Theatre shows" and "TOP FOUR shows to see in under an hour"at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. During early stages of development it was long-listed for the Old Vic 12 in the writing category (2017). It is a cross art-form piece of storytelling exploring the impact of breast cancer through verbatim interviews and an honest autobiographical narrative of grief, strength, compassion and kindness.
Casey's most recent piece of new writing THE WILD UNFEELING WORLD (a one-woman reimagining of Moby Dick) won a Best Theatre Award at the 2020 Adelaide Fringe, had a total sell-out run at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was nominated for a VAULT Festival Origins Award.
Her previous work has been shortlisted and nominated for The Charlie Hartill Special Reserve Fund, The MTN Awards, The Underbelly IdeasTap Award, The Infallible Awards, The Sit-Up Awards and The DramaUK Scottish Daily Mail Award. Casey is also an alumnus of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society's Emerging Producers Development Programme and has ten years of experience producing work for the festival and beyond.
Casey began writing, directing and designing as one of the Artistic Directors behind HookHitch Theatre, from there she has gone on to work with many collaborators and companies where she has developed projects through from conception to production. She currently produces her new writing as Artistic Director of Lion House Theatre.