Andrea Aptecker
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York
Tom Wright Joins the Cast Of THERE ARE MONSTERS At 7th Annual Durango PlayFest (Jun 16, 2025)
Jodi Long Joins the Cast Of BECKY AND HER LUNG TRANSPLANT At 7th Annual Durango PlayFest (Jun 16, 2025)
Ian August's D.Q.M. OR DRAG QUEEN MAGIC Will Premiere at 7th Annual Durango PlayFest (Jun 13, 2025)
BIO
Andrea Aptecker is a writer and teacher in Boston, Massachusetts. Her screenplay (There are Monsters) won Best Thriller at the 2026 Melbourne International Screenplay Awards, in addition to being named a Finalist in the 2026 Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, Finalist in the Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2026, Semi-Finalist Chicago Script Awards, Quarter-Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2026, and Quarter-Finalist in the Pitch Now Screenplay Competition 2026. In 2025 her play (There are Monsters) was workshopped at the Durango, Colorado PlayFest, and she attended the Rocaberti Writers’ Retreat in Spain on scholarship. She’s a 2025 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Semi-Finalist, a Semi-Finalist in the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Program, a Finalist in the Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-minute plays, and Semi-Finalist in the Garry Marshall Theater New Works Festival. Andrea received the Audience Favorite Prize in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition. Her full-length ghost mystery play (Unrequited) which one reviewer called, “lyrical, witty, seductive and dark, and always spellbinding,” is available with Next Stage Press. Andrea attended the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2021. She’s a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Andrea Aptecker | New Play Exchange
News
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 16, 2025
Actor Tom Wright, a veteran of stage, television and film, will star in the psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest. Learn more!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 16, 2025
Los Angeles-based actor Jodi Long has joined the cast of Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 13, 2025
Now in its seventh season, PlayFest has fast become a renowned incubator for well-known and emerging playwrights, actors, and directors to develop new works and test them before audiences.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 13, 2025
Denver-based husband-and-wife writing team Lucy Wright and William Missouri Downs will premiere their dramedy, Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 11, 2025
Playwright Andrea Aptecker will premiere her psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest this month. Learn more about the show here!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 4, 2025
New York-based actor, director and producer Erik Liberman will headline one of four plays featured at the 7th annual Durango PlayFest. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 8, 2025
Durango PlayFest has revealed the four new works that will headline its 7th annual play development festival in June. Learn more about the festival and the lineup and see how to attend.
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 8, 2022
Boston Playwrights' Theatre announces the in-person return of its annual celebration of new short plays. Boston Theater Marathon XXIV will feature 50 ten-minute plays written by New England playwrights and presented by New England theatre companies. The event will take place in BPT's home theatre on Boston University's West Campus.
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2021
Each of the finalists were given the prompt 'Borders' for their submission. Each entry is evaluated for its Character Development, Ear for Authentic Speech, Camouflage of Exposition, Thrilling Story, Dramatic Structure, and Clever Use of Festival Theme.
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 26, 2021
With over 400 submissions from around the world, this year's Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition's founder Roland Tec has announced this year's 13 finalists.
by Jillian Gaier - Jul 30, 2014
Theatre@First's Henry the 4th combines two of Shakespeare's greatest history plays-and a feisty female Falstaff--into one thrilling night of theatre at Unity Somerville on August 21-30.
by Kelsey Denette - Mar 7, 2013
Theatre@First presents Aristophanes' classic anti-war comedy, Lysistrata at Unity, Somerville on March 14th-16th and 21st-23rd with a Pay What You Want performance on opening night.
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