Andrea Frierson

,.ANDREA FRIERSON

Bio
Broadway: Once on This Island (Erzulie, original cast); Marie Christine, Juan Darien (both at Lincoln Center Theater); Bring in ‘Da Noise/Funk ('Da Singer); The Lion King (Rafiki); For Colored Girls...(original Broadway production).
Off- Broadway: Me & Ella (writer, star) at the York's Theatre New 2 NY Developmental series; Dr. Charity in Above Hell's Kitchen (2010 NYMF Festival); The Moon in Hit the Lights, and the Mother in You Don't Miss Your Water (both at the Vineyard Theatre), Beehive! (The Village Gate)
Regional Theatre: Rattlesnake Kate (Katherine) at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Aretha Franklin/ Tina Turner in Beehive! (Helen Hayes Award); Dr. Charlotte in Falsettoland (Hartford Stage Company); The Mother in Julie Taymor's Juan Darien (Edinburgh Festival); The Midwife in The Duchess of Malfi and Audrey in As you Like It (both at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); Armelia in Ain't Misbehavin' (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Dionne in Hair (Starlight Ampitheatre, KC), Suzanna in Tintypes (South Coast Reperatory), among others.
International: Dorothy in The Wiz (Australia). Television: Ms. Melody on Allegra's Window (Series Regular, Nickelodeon); Star Search (5- time winner/semi-finalist); POSE (FX); Harlem- Season 1 (Prime); Quantico (ABC); Elementary (CBS); Red Oaks (Prime); Louie (FX); Rosie O'Donnell Show (guest); The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (guest).
Andrea is a graduate of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's MFA program in Classical Acting. She is also a playwright, lyricist, and bookwriter. She is a former Dramatists Guild Fellow, a member of the BMI Musical Theater Songwriters Workshop, and a recipient of a Library of Congress Fellowship award in Ethnographic Research. Her musical, Soon of a Mornin', was a 2005 NYMF invited show, and was also featured as part of the Kennedy Center's Page to the Stage Festival. Andrea's first musical, Lady be Good, was presented in Workshop at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1999. Her ten-minute play, Houston, was featured recently in 2023 The Fire This Time Theatre Festival
Andrea is currently writing a memoir.