Andrea J. Dymond has built a career in Chicago sitting at the helm of new plays and introducing them to their very first audiences. Her career spans American Blues Theater (which she co-founded), The Victory Gardens Theater, Paramount Theater and MPAACT to name a few. She is also an independent producer, regularly taking plays to the fringe festival in Edinburgh Scottland. Her accolades are many, but it is in the trenches where Andi has made her name. She is a producer/director/collaborator who has added to the distinctiveness of decades of American Theater.