Andrew Watring (Andrew) is a Black Trans Object-theatre-creator, director, award-winning playwright, producer, performer, and Anarkata-in-training from sweet home Huntsville, Alabama. Andrew is the Community Programs Creative Director and Resident Associate Director at People's Light.

Andrew's career has been dedicated to the creation and continued cultivation of "Shakespeare is a White Supremacist," a theatrical ritual grounded in analyzing and working to reverse Shakespeare’s colonizing effect on the American theatre; most recently staged with Main Street Players (Miami-Dade, FL). Select directing credits include: RENT, Angels in America, The Henriad, White Noise, Hamletmachine, Passing: A Stage Play, Coriolanus. Andrew was a Resident-Artist for the Yale Dramatic Association (2022), a member of the Directors Lab North (2021); graduate of the Theatre Lab Life Stories Institute (2019); an Honored Playwright at the New South Young Playwright’s Festival (2018). Andrew founded and served as the Artistic Director of the Fractal Theatre Collective, an anti-capitalist arts organization that embraced community-led, direct action as an integral element of theatrical design. Andrew’s projects currently in development: Black. Queer. Providence: Charles Town; The 9th Street Black Preservation Society; Old God. Andrew holds a BA in Theatre from American University, and an MFA from Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company.