An award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist, Andrew’s works for musical theatre include: Meet John Doe (with Eddie Sugarman, world premiere Ford’s Theatre (DC), Jonathan Larson Award, cast album on Broadway Records); Whisper Darkly (with DJ Salisbury, concept album on TBIC label), The Tutor (with Maryrose Wood, three Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters); Glory, Mississippi (Richard Rodgers Award, Kleban Award for outstanding libretto); La Tempesta (with legendary lyricist Tom Jones, world premiere Tokyo 2019); and The Great Blueness. Concert performances at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Songbook Series, VH1’s Save the Music, the Kennedy Center ASCAP Songwriters series, Joe’s Pub, Birdland. Opera and art song: The Beach (with librettist Royce Vavrek), New York City Opera VOX series, Fort Worth Opera Frontiers series; Not Crazy cycle for counter-tenor, premiered Wigmore Hall (London) by Lawrence Zazzo.

Andrew has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Artists’ Colony and a writer-in-residence at the Sundance Theater Institute at Ucross, the Rhinebeck Writers’ Retreat, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. As a musical director, he has worked on dozens of Off-Broadway, regional and touring productions, and has played in Broadway pits including Ragtime, An American in Paris, Gigi, and Matilda. He has served as musical director and accompanist for such distinguished artists as Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Raitt, Jennifer Holliday, Shirley Jones, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams and Liz Callaway.

One of the most respected theater educators in the country, Andrew served on the faculty of Yale University for ten years, where he taught songwriting and musical theatre performance. He then became a founding faculty member of the Musical Theatre department at the Manhattan School of Music, where he currently teaches. Andrew is also the author of two popular books for musical theatre actors: The Enraged Accompanist’s Guide to the Perfect Audition, and Music Essentials for Singers and Actors, both of which are used as references by aspiring and working actors and as textbooks in numerous university and conservatory training programs worldwide.