Andrew Shea
Associate Professor & Production Area Head
E-mail: ashea@mail.utexas.edu
Office: UA9 2.112D
Phone: 512-471-5303
M.F.A., University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, 1994.
Andrew Shea’s most recent feature film, Forfeit, a heist flick starring Billy Burke, Sherry Stringfield, Gregory Itzin and Wayne Knight, premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival and went on to play in more than thirty domestic and international festivals, including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Filmfest Hamburg, the Edmonton International Film Festival, the Starz Denver Film Festival, the Memphis International Film Festival, USA Film Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival and the Palm Beach International Film Festival. The film premiered on Showtime and has been picked up for international distribution by Curb Entertainment.
Andrew's second feature, The Corndog Man premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It also screened at the St. Louis International Film Festival, where Andrew won the Emerging Filmmaker Award; the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; the New Haven Film Festival; the USA Film Festival; the Florida Film Festival; Method Fest; the Santa Fe International Film Festival; the Philadelphia International Film Festival (Leigh Whipper Gold Award for Best Feature); the Denver Film Festival; the Austin Film Festival; the Communication Arts Society of San Antonio Film Showcase; the Northampton Film Festival (best feature film); the Virginia Film Festival; the Raindance Film Festival; Rio de Janeiro Film Festival; and the Hamburg Film Festival. The Corndog Man was picked up by the Sundance Channel and Blockbuster following its Sundance premiere. Andrew’s first feature, Santa Fe, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at the Taos Talking Picture Festival, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Munich Film Festival. The film was distributed worldwide by Nu Image. It screened on HBO and was released on video by Blockbuster following its Sundance premiere.
Andrew directs Sherry Stringfield in Forfeit
Andrew's short film, Take My Breath Away, made while he was a film student at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television, was one of two American shorts invited to screen in the International Critics Week of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It also received a special screening in the 1999 Critics Week at Cannes. In addition to Cannes, it screened at the Deauville Film Festival, the Australian Film Institute, the British Film Institute, the Ismalia International Film Festival, the International Flanders Film Festival, Noir in Festival, Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Cinequest Film Festival and the Utah Short Film and Video Festival.
In the 1980s Andrew founded and for seven seasons served as artistic director of the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, a regional professional theatre based in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. While in New Mexico, Andrew directed Children of a Lesser God, Cloud 9, Talley’s Folly, The Rainmaker, Twelfth Night, Man and Superman, The Rocky Horror Show, A Flea In Her Ear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Road to Mecca, A Christmas Carol, Holiday, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Master Harold…and the Boys, The Great Divide, and the world premiere of Mark Medoff’s Stumps.
Andrew co-wrote the television movie, Beat of a Different Drum, for ABC, Fox Television Studios and Edmonds Entertainment. Andrew also co-wrote a drama pilot for ABC and Fox Television, The Crew, set in the world of college rowing.
Current projects in development include Portrait of Wally, a documentary about a Nazi-looted painting that was discovered on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art; and a feature adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, which Andrew optioned, co-wrote and will direct.
Andrew is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, California Institute of the Arts, Northeastern University School of Law, and Hampshire College. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
