Andy Lowe

In 2001 Andy helped inaugurate San Diego's first Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Festival ('01-'03), and has been an active board member, and participant for various Asian American community organizations including Organization of Chinese Americans, SD Alliance for APIA's, and coordinator for the Asian Cultural Festival, and Amp Asian American Music Festival. For his work he has been a recipient of various honors including two mayoral commendations, and was recognized as one of the "Top 30 most influential Asian Americans Under the age of 30" (Political Circus Magazine '01). After receiving a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program through the California State Library, Andy, with the Asian Story Theatre, developed Dear Miss Breed('07) at the Lyceum Theatre, based on the award winning book by Joanne Oppenheim. Andy continues to independently develop theatrical projects through his own Chinese Pirate Productions brand, including the nationally acclaimed fan adaptation of Joss Whedon's Dr.

In 1995, he Co-founded the San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre where he was the company's Producing Artistic Director for ten years ('95-'05) and over thirty-five full stage productions, and countless staged readings.

Andy Lowe was a winner of the California Young Playwrights Contest in 1994, where his play The Cultural Hyphen was praised and endorsed by David Henry Hwang and Edward Albee.