Andy Smith

Andy Smith is a theatre maker who has been writing and performing his own work since 1999, operating under the name ‘a smith’ between 2002 and 2012. Andy completed his Practice-as-Research PhD at Lancaster University in 2014. His thesis, What We Can Do With What We Have Got: A dematerialised theatre and social and political change is an exploration of Andy’s practice and specifically focuses on his plays commonwealth and all that is solid melts into air. This dematerialised theatre is simple in form but complex in content and is achieved through gentle acts of removal, replacement and reduction.

He is a long-term collaborator and friend of Tim Crouch, co-directing and supporting productions of An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, The Authorand Adler and Gibb. In 2013 he co-wrote and performed what happens to the hope at the end of the evening for the Almeida Theatre alongside Tim. Andy is currently touring The Preston Bill and from Autumn 2018, his new play Summit.