Writer

Andrea Fleck Clardy is a Boston writer and activist. After graduating from Swarthmore College and earning a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University, she worked in public education, community organizing, and small press publishing.

 

Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Ithaca Times, and Ames Daily Tribune. Her short plays and monologues have been widely produced and published. Her full-length plays include HIDE AND SEEK with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, the creator of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (The Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, 2001) and JOB LOSS FIGURES, winner of the Promising Playwright Award, (Colonial Players, Annapolis MD, 2017).

 

In addition to the Promising Playwright Award, she won the Honegger Prize for the best short play (Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport MA, 2021).  She was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwriting Conference, a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and a finalist twice for the Heideman Award. Andrea is a proud member of The Dramatists’ Guild.

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