Andrew Shea, Director
Andrew Shea recently completed his third feature film, Forfeit, a heist flick starring Billy Burke, Sherry Stringfield, Gregory Itzin and Wayne Knight. It premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival and went on to play in thirty domestic and international festivals. The film has been picked up for international distribution by Curb Entertainment. MTI Home Video will release the DVD in the United States. Pay television rights have been acquired by Showtime. Andrew’s other features, The Corndog Man and Santa Fe, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His short film, “Take My Breath Away,” premiered in the Critics’ Week section at the Cannes Film Festival. In the 1980s, Andrew founded and for seven seasons served as artistic director of the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, a regional professional theatre based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Andrew’s Current projects include Portrait of Wally, a documentary about a Nazi-looted painting that was discovered on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art; and a feature adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, which Andrew optioned, co-wrote and will direct.
Andrew teaches directing and also serves as Production Area Head in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, California Institute of the Arts, Northeastern University School of Law, and Hampshire College. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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