Andrew Barnicle

Andrew Barnicle has directed four plays on the Colony Stage: Moonlight and Magnolias, Celadine, Rounding Third and Gunmetal Blues.

He was the artistic director of The Laguna Playhouse for 18 years, producing 120 Playhouse productions and directing forty of them, including many world, U.S., west coast and southern California premieres. 

Recent directing projects there include Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias in a co-production with McCoy Rigby Entertainment at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Michael Hollinger’s An Empty Plate at the Café du Grand Boeuf and Red Herring, the world premiere of Richard Dresser’s The Pursuit of Happiness, and the U.S. premiere of Bernard Farrell’s Many Happy Returns. 

Andrew previously served as Head of Theatre at United States International University’s School of Performing and Visual Arts in San Diego, and was the Associate Artistic Director of the North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. He has also directed at San Diego’s Theatre at Old Town, Michigan’s Meadow Brook Theatre, and most recently directed The Foreigner at San Jose Rep.

January, 2011