andrew bio

Andrew Joffe has worked in many media. As a director, he has worked extensively for may companies, including the American Chamber Opera Company (premieres of Alice Shield's Mass for the Dead and Larry Lipkis' Peroneile, Bruce Adolphe's The Tell Tale Heart, and the 45th Anniversary production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium), the Classic Stage Company (Mac Wellman’s Dracula), NADA (Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, in his own translation), The Other Opera Company (experimental production of The Threepenny Opera), as well as plays by Tennessee Williams, John Guare, and N.F. Simpson.

On radio, his work as a producer, writer, and director has been heard across the country and in Australia, England and Japan. He is co-creator, co-producer, co-head and principal director for two seasons of Visit New Grimston, Anyway, a comedy series distributed by National Public Radio, and has written and directed scripts for Little Chills, another NPR series, including The Surveillance of Benjamin Dogg, which was adapted as an original video work for Manhattan Cable Television.

His adaptations and original work have been heard on the Sci Fi Channel’s Seeing Ear Theater, most recently his adaptation of Poul Anderson's classic sci-fi story The Martian Crown Jewels, starring Bronson Pinchot. He wrote and directed The Horn of Gabriel, a pilot episode for the drama series Jazzplay (distributed by NPR) for which he received the Silver Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters in 1992. He has contributed to WBGH-Boston’s series Radio Movies.

Andrew was a winner of the 1990 Midwest Radio Theater Workshop’s Scriptwriting Contest. He is the recipient of honors from the National Association of College Broadcasters, and the National Broadcasting Society, and his work has been endowed by The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Kathleen Daiglish Foundation.