Andrew Tsao

Associate Professor
Acting and Directing

206-616-9792
tsao@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor Andrew Tsao has directed dozens of prime time episodes for network television, including such award winning shows as Home Improvement starring Tim Allen, The Tick, Friends, Caroline in the City and many more. He served as resident director at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, and was the artistic director of The New Harmony Project, where notable writers including Horton Foote, Robert Schenkkan and Angelo Pizzo developed new work under his leadership. He has directed regionally at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, Shakespeare Festival L.A., East West Players, Pan Asian Rep and others. He has been awarded the Center for Leadership Arts Award in Indianapolis, served as a panelist for the NEA Theatre Grants Program, and been a guest artist for the directing program at California Institute of the Arts and the Film Department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.  He received his MFA in directing from California Institute of the Arts and is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Additional Information:

Academic/UW web site
Professional work web site

University Week article:
"UW student actors learn to transfer stage technique to screen"

Andrew Tsao chosen by graduating seniors for The Last Word. Thursday, May 14, 5:30pm, in Kane Hall - this Alumni Association link includes a brief video of Andrew Tsao. Read more in the May 14 Daily - Senior class votes ‘dramatic’ professor to give ‘the last word’.

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