Playwright in Residence 2026/27 Final Presentation
February 2026
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2026/27 Playwright in Residence
Andrea Ambam
Andrea Ambamis an award-winning storyteller and truthteller whose roots sprout from Cameroon. Currently, Andrea is the Director of Programming at Level Forward – where she stewards and hosts the Anthem Award-winning audience engagement platform More To Talk About (previously seen at Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and monthly in NYC at Soho House). She is a 2026 JACK Resident Artist, the 2026-2027 Playwright-in-Residence at Working Theater, and under commission by the Perelman Performing Arts Center and Civis Foundation for her experimental new play Twelve Angry Black Women. Pulsating at the intersection of art and social change as a playwright, performance artist, and creative producer – Andrea has developed her unruly imagination and multi-hyphenated practice through residencies and fellowships with New York Theatre Workshop, PEN America, Hi-ARTS, Anna Deavere Smith, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, The Playwrights Realm, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Signature Theatre, EmergeNYC; collaborations with BAM Fisher, Rattlestick Theatre, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, NYU Verbatim Performance Lab, The Apollo, National Black Theatre, Harlem9, and more.
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Her plays include: Twelve Angry Black Women (PAC-NYC Democracy Cycle), Date of Release (Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Stage Left Festival), Fragile State (Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Theatre503 International Playwriting Award Longlist), R(estoration) I(n) P(rogress) (NYU Educational Theatre/Provincetown Playhouse, 2023), Rehearsing Justice: A One-Woman Show (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), Angelina Weld Grimke (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Playbill, Broadway Podcast Network), and more. She’s been a finalist or semi-finalist for the Rattlestick Van Lier Fellowship, Portland Center Stage’s JAW New Play Festival, Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in The Fire, NewVictory Labworks, and Ars Nova Play Group. At a collegiate level, Andrea was a competitive public speaker/performer where she was awarded 10 national championships including "Top Speaker in the Nation'' three times, and went on to debate conservative pundits on live TV. Andrea lives in Brooklyn where the rent is too damn high and holds a Masters degree in Art & Public Policy from NYU Tisch. www.andreaambam.com