Andrea Hairston





Andrea Hairston

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Andrea Hairston is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist who is best known for her novels Mindscape and Redwood and Wildfire. Mindscape, Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre and has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for more than a decade. Hairston is also the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She teaches playwriting, African, African American, and Caribbean theatre literature. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on public...more


Average rating: 3.91 · 165 ratings · 44 reviews · 4 distinct works
Redwood and Wildfire
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Mindscape
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007
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