
Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on public radio and television. She teaches playwriting, African, African American, and Caribbean theatre literature. Hairston is also the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre and has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for more than a decade. Mindscape, Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and short-listed for the Philip K. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on public 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.



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.
