Andy Mitton (Co-Founder, Artistic Director, Locations Head)

Andy was born in Boston, MA and raised in the coastal suburb of Marshfield.  Before graduating high school, he wrote and directed three productions, won the National Council of Teachers of English Award, and was invited to attend the New England Young Writers Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont.   One year later, Andy returned to Middlebury as a student.

At Middlebury, Andy immersed himself in the Theatre Department as a writer, director, and actor.  He wrote and directed full-length plays Mercy and The Graves of San Andreas along with five one-acts.  His thesis was a faculty-directed production of his play Love Lies Burning which also won a regional award in the 2001 Clauder Competition.  His one-act plays Enough, What They Cast Down, and Eggs Over Albuquerque were produced in Boston at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre as part of the first through third annual Boston Theatre Marathons and played alongside works by Israel Horowitz, Neal Bell, and David Mamet.   Andy’s early career received a boost when Eggs Over Albuquerque was published by Bakers Plays.

Upon graduating with honors from Middlebury, Andy decided to follow the lead of his favorite college collaborator, close friend Clark Freeman, and move out to Los Angeles and here he has stayed for four years.  In that time, he has written and directed Coming Out Clean, a new version of The Graves of San Andreas, and Missing Persons as well as contributing four short scripts for The Cellar Door.   More recently, his world premiere musical Lucid Sound was mounted under Sam Roberts' direction, a production of Jess Lacher's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, in which he also played a mute with a banjo, and last season's A Year Without Spring which he wrote and directed.  Outside productions have included a short film version of Eggs Over Alburqueque, The Range at Project Y in Washington, D.C., staged readings of Love Lies Burning at the Rorschach Theatre and of Coming Out Clean at the Kennedy Center, and several segments for Mega Machines on The Learning Channel.   He has composed music for theatrical productions including One Flea Spare, and Monster for Sight Unseen, Binky’s Place in Hollywood,  Night Sky in Boston, and Lydia in Bed for Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood.   He also performs as a singer/songwriter and has played keys and guitars in various bands. 

Andy's personal website can be found here.

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