biography

Andrea Ferran is a director of new plays, film and music theatre.

In the UK, Andrea has staged work at National Theatre Studio, Barbican, Young Vic, Southbank Centre, Lilian Baylis Studio, Gate Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Finborough Theatre, HighTide Festival and Hackney House. Her work has been seen internationally at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Carnegie Hall, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, 59E59 and LaMama ETC. She has developed new plays at the National Theatre, Royal Court International Department and Old Vic: New Voices, and new music at Royal Opera House, Britten Pears Arts and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. 

In 2012, Andrea was awarded the National Theatre Leverhulme Emerging Directors Bursary. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Goethe Institut, Kennedy Center and British Council. She has been associate artist at Arcola Theatre, resident director at National Theatre Studio, guest artist at Moscow Art Theatre and Ivano-Frankivsk National Theatre, associate director at London Coliseum and studio artist at Northern Ireland Opera. She is an alumni of the Clore Leadership workshop, the International Forum at Theatertreffen and Lincoln Center Directors Lab.  She received her MFA in Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts.