Andrea has performed leading roles in plays, musicals, operas and concerts across Canada and internationally.
In 2022, Andrea played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Stratford Festival in the season opener on the Festival Stage for her fourth season with the company. Other memorable roles at Stratford include originating the characters of Jane Grey in Mother’s Daughter by Kate Hennig; Anne Brontë in Brontë: The World Without by Jordi Mand and Astoreth and Urania in Paradise Lost by Erin Shields. Andrea also appeared as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing adapted by Erin Shields (2020, cancelled due to Covid-19); Dromio Understudy in The Comedy of Errors; Queen Elizabeth in Death and the King’s Horseman, and roles in The Crucible and Wolf Hall. Film audiences may know Andrea from Welcome to Zama, Algorithms, The True Meaning of Girls, Walking the Line and Snowflake, while video game enthusiasts may know her from her work on Mass Effect 3 (EA Games).
On stage elsewhere, Andrea has appeared as Cordelia in King Lear and Sarah in Shakespeare’s Rebel (Theatre Calgary & Bard on the Beach); Luciana in The Comedy of Errors and Cordelia in King Lear (Theatre Calgary); Desdemona in Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Crissy in HAIR (The Mayfield); Molly Aster in Peter & The Starcatcher, Fanny in A Christmas Carol, Ginger Rogers in Make Mine Love (The Citadel Theatre); Mother’s Voice in Songs My Mother Never Sang Me (Concrete Theatre); Apparition in Macbeth and a Soloist in Hansel and Gretel (Edmonton Opera Company), Marie in Pains of Youth, Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Mary Magdalene in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Studio Theatre), Thea in Spring Awakening (Strathcona Theatre), Caroline in MOTE (Blarney Productions).
As a singer, songwriter and pianist, Andrea released her first EP, Tides, in 2020. Since its release, the album has been featured on CBC’s Fresh Air and Big City, Small World, on Sirius XM: Canada Talks programs as well as on many playlists and print publications in North America and across the U.K.
As a writer, Andrea was a member of Tarragon Theatre’s 2021 Young Playwrights Unit where she developed her play Dora. She’s currently writing and developing a new play called The Meeting Place with the generous support of the Stratford Festival, as well as a new musical about the life of Clara Schumann called Clara. In 2017 Andrea was a member of the Write From the Hip extended cohort at Nightwood Theatre where she developed her play: Salamander or The Burning Girls. Andrea was also a 2018-19 Nightwood Young Innovator.
When she’s not performing, Andrea is also a passionate teacher and coach, and has been a Teaching Artist with the Stratford Festival since 2018. She also runs her own studio where she teaches Acting, Singing, Public Speaking, Piano, and Performance Mindset. Of particular interest to Andrea is in empowering her students with tools to combat performance anxiety, develop positive self-regard, foster a values-based approach to their goals and artistic choices and learning to develop a healthy and productive mindset. She has taught, coached and director actors and singers internationally. Most recently, she was a Guest Artist and Director in the BFA and MFA programs at Michigan State University, where she taught classes and directed an abridged version of King Lear for MSU’s Shakespeare Immersion Program. Andrea has directed student productions at Michigan State University, Bard on the Beach and Victoria School For the Arts.
Andrea holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Alberta (with Distinction), and has trained in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Acting at the Stratford Festival, the Professional Musical Theatre Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts), the South Alberta Opera Experience at the University of Lethbridge and with film teachers in Vancouver and Toronto. She has studied voice and piano with teachers across North America and holds her Grade Nine Royal Conservatory of Music levels (with Distinction) in both Voice and Piano, under the guidance of Dr. Haley Simons (piano) and Kim Mattice-Wanat (Opera NUOVA).
