CASEY JAY ANDREWS
Writer + Designer

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).

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Casey Jay has worked with PUNCHDRUNK and PUNCHDRUNK ENRICHMENT since 2020, she is the Designer of PUNCHDRUNK's VIOLA'S ROOM, and previous roles include Senior Designer at PUNCHDRUNK ENRICHMENT and Assistant Head of Design on PUNCHDRUNK's THE BURNT CITY.

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As a Writer Her newest work THE QUIET EARTH BENEATH is playing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe throughout August 2025. Other plays include A PLACE THAT BELONGS TO MONSTERS (winner of the 2023 Adelaide Fringe overall Best Theatre Award), THE WILD UNFEELING WORLD and

OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME. 

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As a Designer

Casey has an eclectic design background ranging from large scale immersive theatre design, to mural painting and carved wooden puppets. Casey has a particular interest in intimate narrative led installations; these have provided a home for many of her writing and storytelling projects. She has previously designed for FRANCESCA MOODY PRODUCTIONS, IMOGEN HEAP, BT SPORT, SHOTGUN CAROUSEL, RABBLE THEATRE and THE IMMERSIVE GREAT GATSBY in London and Seoul.

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Casey is an Associate Artist of Streatham Space Project and The Arts Centre Hounslow.

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Casey's play THE WILD UNFEELING WORLD (a one-woman reimagining of Moby Dick), won a Best Theatre Award at the 2020 Adelaide Fringe, and was recommended in The Guardian as a top pick of both The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and VAULT Festival. It had a total sell-out run in Edinburgh at The Pleasance, and was nominated for a VAULT Festival Origins Award. 

 

As well as a Fringe First THE ARCHIVE OF EDUCATED HEARTS 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.

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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 Edinburgh and beyond.

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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.​