you can call me alec

by andrea lepcio

We have to name what we want, what we need. Specifically. To survive.

About the Author:

Andrea Lepcio is a Maine-based playwright who writes fast and often. Most recently, she won the Maine Literary Award for Drama for her solo play Human. She is best known for Looking for the Pony, a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and for the NEA Outstanding New American Play Award. Most recently, she was an Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. Her climate change play, World Avoided, was commissioned by Sloan/EST and presented in a reading by EST as part of the First Lights Festival in 2017 and 2019. She has been produced regionally, in New York City, and internationally; three new plays have been produced since 2015. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, was a Dramatists Guild Fellow, served as the Fellows Program Director for ten years, and is a Dramatists Guild Institute teacher. She is adjunct at College of the Atlantic. Andrea is also a personal trainer and yoga teacher. M.F.A. Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.