Andrew Reilly

Andrew Reilly is an actor, director, writer, and teacher of acting. He has worked extensively in theatre, film, and television. He began acting as an amateur in community theatre before deciding in middle age to pursue acting as a career. While completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at University of South Carolina, he was admitted into SAG, AEA, and AFTRA, the three professional actors’ unions, and was also awarded a fellowship to the Folger Conservatory in Washington, DC.

After acting in regional theatre as well as in New York and Los Angeles, he was awarded a Rotary International Fellowship to the Sorbonne in Paris for French theatre studies. Reilly has directed theatre productions in France, Russia and Hong Kong, as well as in Los Angeles. In 2001 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture in Russia on American theatre and film, and became the founding artistic director of the English Language Theatre of Orenburg, the Russian sister city of Orlando, Florida, where he now lives and works.

Andrew Reilly offers lectures and seminar workshops and can be contacted by email at anreilly@yahoo.com for further information.