Andrea Assaf

Theatrical Artist-in-Residence
Artistic Director of Art2Action, Inc.
Phone: (813) 974-2701
Email: assaf@usf.edu

Andrea Assaf is guest faculty in the USF School of Theatre & Dance, where she teaches the "Building Bridges" Devised Theatre course, open to all majors (Fall 2014). She is the Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc., and the lead artist/curator of the "THIS Bridge: Arab, Middle Eastern & Muslim Artists" series at USF. Andrea is a writer, performer, director and cultural organizer. As Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc., she creates and tours original theatre, and serves as the National Coordinator of the Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation (Art2Action/Pangea World Theater). She’s also a consultant with the Arts & Democracy Project, former Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and former Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04). She has a master’s degree in performance studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting, both from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Andrea’s performance work ranges from interdisciplinary solo and collaborative productions, to spoken word. Original full-length touring productions include: Eleven Reflections on September (2011-15), Outside the Circle (2012), Fronteras Desviadas/Deviant Borders with Mujeres en Ritual (2005-06), and Globalicities (2003). Recent directing credits include: Speed Killed My Cousin by Carpetbag Theatre (2012-15); breaking letter(s) by Suheir Hammad (2008); Parang Sabil by Kinding Sindaw (2007).

Publications include numerous poems, articles and Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture co-authored with Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon (Americans for the Arts, 2005). Service: Board of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists, Alternate ROOTS, and International Management Committee of Women Playwrights International. Membership: Radius of Arab American Writers.