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Andrea is a native New Yorker... if being born in Syracuse counts. A precocious child, she compelled the lucky neighbors to catch her act in her parents' living room nightly. At age 3 she began tap lessons, followed soon by ballet, saxophone and needlepoint. Her one-woman tour de force, Andrea Is Sewing, played to sold out backyards in the summer of '72.

After appearing in a string of neighborhood productions, Andrea set Cicero, NY ablaze with a critically lauded performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. However the harsh realities of high school dramatics and puberty, made it clear that Dorothy was the only ingenue she'd ever play.

Accepting her status as a character actress, the 16 year old Andrea dug deep, worked hard and honed her craft in a series of ever larger roles usually played by middle aged women. That year, Andrea was awarded the Onondaga County Best Actress Award for her performance as Mrs. Banks in Barefoot in the Park.

After high school, Andrea continued to study at Syracuse University, graduating with a BFA in Theater. Just for luck, Andrea minored in Theology.

In her senior year, she earned her first points toward her Equity card playing the Beggar Woman in Pygmalion, starring Roma Downey at Syracuse Stage. Unfortunately for Roma, Andrea thought she was playing the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd. Oddly enough, nobody seemed to notice. Audiences did, however, notice that she was also the girl checking their coats and serving drinks at intermission. Ah, the magic of theater!

Her career launched, Andrea was cast in various professional productions in and around Syracuse - a great theater town. The high point of her years in the provinces was her hilarious performance as Mammy Yokum in L'il Abner, where, as an added bonus, she snagged the show's leading man, Dan Money. In a twist of irony of Sophoclean proportions, Dan, six years her senior, was playing her son.

After getting hitched, Andrea and Dan moved to the Big Apple, where Andrea quickly found that while her unforgettable voice was not what casting directors expected from a twenty-something actress, that same voice made her a natural for voice-overs, commercials and 900 numbers. Andrea has appeared to acclaim in numerous productions regionally, on tour and on the New York stage. Favorites include M'Lynn in Steel Magnolias, May in Eastern Standard, Alice Miller in My Favorite Year and Rita LaPorta in Lucky Stiff.

Andrea is so grateful to have finally, almost, kinda reached the age of the characters she has been playing for decades.