Photo: accepting the Ovation Award for Best Director for Small Engine Repair

Bio

ANDREW BLOCK received the Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Director & Production for the world premiere of John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair, starring Jon Bernthal. Selected credits include:  NYC premieres of Adam Szymkowicz's Fat Cat Killers and the NYC Fringe hit Clown Bar 2 (Audience Choice, Most Fringe awards); Kelley Nicole Girod’s This Stretch of Montpelier and Body of Water (The Fire This Time Festival, Le Petit); Mark Jason Williams’ Straight Faced Lies & The Other Day (Theatre at 14th St Y); John Pollono's Lost and Found (FringeNYC Encore, Lucille Lortel Theatre); David Caudle’s Downward Facing Debbie (ProjectY); Sondheim's Company (Gallery Players); Why Bother? (Best Director, Planet Connections Festivity); Adam Rapp’s Bingo With the Indians (GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Theatre, West-coast premiere); Bedroom Farce (FAPC); Reach (Ivy Theatre Company); Avenue Q (Manhattan College); Inherit the Wind (Manhattan College); Rumors (AADA); The Shape of Things (Adelphi University); Recovery (FringeNYC).

Andrew is a multi-hat-wearing Arts professional, with extensive years in production, advocacy, marketing, education, and community building. With over a decade of service as Manager of Partnerships and Off & Off-Off Broadway Services at Theatre Development Fund (TDF), he spearheaded programs enriching the relationship of audiences to NYC's adventurous Indie Theatre community and commercial arts landscape.

He lives and works in New York City with his wife, Katina, and their two cats, Ella & Louis, and is a proud native of New Orleans.