About
Andrew is a theatre producer, performing arts manager and new media evangelist.
He graduated from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with a First Class honours degree in Music, Theatre and Entertainment Management and was awarded the Young Presidents Prize for outstanding contribution to the Institute by a Management student.
Having grown up in Edinburgh Andrew was drawn to the city’s annual Fringe Festival and has taken on a number of roles both for companies and venues. Working in a number of technical roles, Andrew has stage managed and operated lighting and sound for productions in a number of the Fringe’s most popular venues including The Underbelly’s Iron Belly, Paradise Green Promotions’ Greyfriar’s Kirk House, Diverse Attractions and The Underbelly Caves.
In his sixth year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Andrew continued his relationship with C venues and led the venues’ Box Office operations. As Box Office Manager Andrew oversaw a department handling in excess of half a million pounds turnover in an 8 week period, selling tickets on behalf of C venues’ 160 shows.
Having gained his Associates Diploma in Musical Theatre from the London College of Music in 2005 Andrew continues to build on his passion for musical theatre and undertook a three month academic placement as Production Assistant for Perfect Pitch Musicals and Andy Barnes Productions, helping develop and stage the next generation of British musicals.
Productions worked on whilst working for Perfect Pitch Musicals include the a showcase of four new British musicals in the annual Perfect Pitch Showcase in Trafalgar Studio 2 and a one night concert performance of Through The Door in Trafalgar Studio 1. Additional Production Assistant work undertaken whilst on placement included supporting productions of Over the Threshold during its transfer from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to Jermyn Street Theatre and The Great Pretender at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Andrew has experience in a number of aspects of new media production and content creation. He was one of the first podcaters at the Edinburgh Fringe hosting the Whispered Prompt Podcast in 2006. The podcast featured reviews and interviews with not only Fringe participants but producers, writers and those working towards making the Fringe possible.
As the Station Manager of Re:place Radio, the reincarnation of LIPA’s radio station, Andrew developed the station from a platform for live-to-air streaming into a network of 15 podcasts. Responsible for building the station and its content production and distribution workflows from the ground up, Andrew also played prominent role in rebranding the station and developing a new listenership for the redeveloped product offering. Andrew continues to consult to Re:place Radio, offering advice on the development of the Drupal CMS on which it was developed.
Andrew is currently the Acting Deputy Editor and Off-West End Editor for Whatsonstage.com, the UK’s leading theatre website. As well as leading social media development within the organisation, Andrew regularly contributes to news and features, co-ordinates the Off-West End review schedule and manages text, audio and video content. Whatsonstage.com receives over 520,000 unique visitors per month, generating in excess of 4.8 million page impressions (three month average). With an incredibly loyal theatre club membership and an annual ‘people’s choice’ theatre awards, Whatsonstage.com is the UK theatre bible.
Incase it has not yet become clear; the views expressed on this blog, and all associated content including Twitter, are entirely my own and not my employer or any organisation I may be seen to represent.
