 ANDREW WHITE last appeared at Lookingglass as Sampson Brass (and others) in The Old Curiosity Shop. Prior to that he was seen, guitar in hand, in Hillbilly Antigone, and has performed in a whole bunch of other Lookingglass shows since helping found the company way back when. In 2004 he directed his original adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which, to his amazed delight, received a Jeff Award for Best Adaptation. He is currently teaching at Northwestern University, as well as in various Lookingglass Education and Community programs with students of all ages. His family at home includes one wife, two children, and one muscle-bound cat.
hometown: Los Angeles, CA
college: Northwestern
major: Performance Studies, in the School of Speech
favorite vacation destination: Trinidad
favorite book: The Golden Gate, by Vikram Seth; Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; The Silver Locusts by Ray Bradbury; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon;
favorite band while in high school: Crosby, Stills & Nash (wince), The Police
favorite text Lookingglass has adapted: The Baron in the Trees; Master & Margarita; S/M; Hard Times; Alice
favorite Lookingglass memory: warming up for Secret in the Wings underneath the sound booth at Chicago Filmmakers on Belmont, with the girls’ “privacy corner” on one side and the boys on the other, and the inevitable tension between those who “really want the warm-up to be serious” (yours truly one of the chief offenders, I’m afraid) and those who just couldn’t abide the thought (PRS, that’s you, my man).
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