Andy Colpitts is a theatre artist and scholar from the hills of northern New Hampshire. First cutting his teeth in local community theatre, he got a BA from Brown University in Theatre & Performance Studies and trained at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has toured nationally with the Bread & Puppet Theatre and regionally with the Vermont PuppeTree. His musical The Family Copoli: a post-apocalyptic burlesque and repopulation play, written with British composer Michael Wookey, recently played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. He is currently a PhD candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. His dissertation Backcountry Onstage: Rural Theatricality and the Performance of Nostalgia interrogates the creation and dissemination of idyllic imaginaries of rural New England through everyday and theatrical performance from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Whether as a playwright, puppeteer, director, or professional ponderer, he is fascinated by cultural memory, popular entertainment, and political performance.
