Andy Colpitts
Departments and programs
- Performing and Media Arts
Keywords
Rurality, Theatre Historiography, Popular Performance, Musical Theatre, Political Theatre, Puppetry
Overview
Andy Colpitts is a theatre artist and scholar from the hills of northern New England. His scholarly interests include rural theatricality, popular performance, and political action. He holds a BA from Brown University in Theatre & Performance Studies and Comparative Literature and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Performing & Media Arts.
As a theatre maker, Andy is a puppeteer, director, playwright and burlesque dancer (stage name La-Di-Da). He trained at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and the Cirque Électrique in Paris, France. He has toured with the Bread & Puppet Theatre and the Vermont PuppeTree. Most recently, he collaborated with British composer Michael Wookey on an original musical entitled The Family Copoli: a post-apocalyptic burlesque and repopulation play, which premiered in 2019 at the Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and is being produced at PMA in Spring 2023.