Amanda L. Andrei is a playwright, literary translator, and theater critic/journalist residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington DC. She writes epic, irreverent plays that center the concealed, wounded places of history from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women, and she co-translates from Romanian to English with her father. Her play Mama, I wish I were silver won the 2022 Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting. Her plays have been produced by Relative Theatrics and developed with Boston Court, NY Classical Theater, La MaMa, Echo Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Artists at Play, Circle X, Chalk Rep, and more, as well as received finalist status with the Princess Grace Award, Eugene O’Neill Conference, Playwrights Realm, and Ashland Festival. Her critique and articles can be found in the L.A. Times, American Theatre Magazine, Stage Raw, Howl Round, Rappler, Critical Stages, and more. Her translations have received support from the Bread Loaf Translators Conference and appeared in Asymptote Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, and Lunch Ticket. She is a former contributing editor with American Theatre Magazine; an alum of the Asian Cultural Council, National Critics Institute, and the BIPOC Critics Lab; and she was named one of three Theatre Communications Group Rising Leaders of Color (2023). MFA: University of Southern California.