Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Marnie Andrews ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://marnieandrews.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Hello world!](https://marnieandrews.com/2025/01/08/hello-world/) - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! ## Pages - [Home](https://marnieandrews.com/) - Marnie Andrews is an American stage and television actress, a singer and lyricist, a writer and poet, and a teacher. - [Bio](https://marnieandrews.com/home/bio/) - My website looks back at the past to more clearly form my vision for a future. Perhaps it can serve as both my calling card and a jumping off point for conversation with You, the viewer.Below is a partial summation of my professional work. It’s a start.In over forty years of performing credits on stage - [Hot Times on Shaky Ground](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/poet/hot-times-on-shaky-ground/) - Poems written in a tumultuous era of fires, floods, earthquakes, blackouts, and riots. THE 13TH DAY BLACKOUTThe usher burst in,“The whole city’s black!”We were in the audience when thelights surged out.Stagehands with candles lit thestage, the act continued forthose who stayed. Some ran away.At curtain, we were drawn from thedark hall to lights of limousinesparked - [The Henry Book](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/poet/the-henry-book/) - The Years Before The ChildrenAll day I’ve thought, trying to rememberthat moment,Hoping the fears of the child on the waywould not make me forgetthat first squirm I feltas we walked down the stairs,when sun danced off his eyesas he said,“These are the years before the children.”That same day, as we warmed by the fire,I knew - [Works in Progress](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/works-in-progress/) - Journey Proud. A novel. Excerpt 1 Excerpts from novel in progress-Journey Proud,by Marnie AndrewsIt was a long tunnel, like those cut through the mountains of her childhood to make the journey easier, the kind that wove through the rock formations into brief patches of light before plunging into blackness again. Car lights helped, but she was - [Journalist](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/journalist/) - Welcome to Wonderland: A Tour of America in the Age of Obama Written by Marnie Andrews Photographs by Jeff Jacobson As baby-boomer Americans, children of children of the Great Depression, Jeff Jacobson and I have lived together from the country’s ascendance into the Age of Stuff to its spectacular fall from grace. Eighty years ago, - [Lyricist](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/lyricist/) - In My WayIf you wait for me to comethen I will follow.If you go, then I will bethe one waiting.All I know is you areall that I can turn toYou should know, becauseyou’re always there.Go on, and I will followI’ll be strongIt’s my way, pretendingno one ever moves meBut you know without youall is dark, - [Poet](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/poet/) - The Trees of Miller RoadWe walk to the river overlook,and yesterday’s snowstorm, partly melted,shows through the forestthe treesset apart, arranging themselves;limbs hung withlanguorous precision in theV’s of other trees.One fell from grace,collapsed from thebridge’s barricade,the homemade handrail,tumbled to acold, sodden perchon rocks inthe fast-moving streamgrowing lichen,waiting forspring rain to wash itdown river.On the walk back, - [Demo](https://marnieandrews.com/singer/demo/) - Just the Way it Goeshttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/02-Thats-just-the-Way-it-Goes.mp3 Anyone Can Whistlehttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/03-Anyone-can-Whistle.mp3 Have a Little Faith in Mehttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/04-Have-a-Little-Faith-in-Me.mp3 Still Got My Healthhttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/05-Still-Got-My-Health.mp3 - [Video Excerpts](https://marnieandrews.com/singer/video-excerpts/) - Cabaret Excerpts(large file) Excerpt from “A Month of Sundays” with Fonda Feingold, at Don’t Tell Mama - [Recommendations](https://marnieandrews.com/teacher-guest-artist-lecturer/recommendations/) - [Syllabi](https://marnieandrews.com/teacher-guest-artist-lecturer/syllabi/) - University at AlbanyDepartment of TheatreActing I Fall 2015______________________________________________________________________________ Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday1:15-2:35Class Location: PAC 053Instructor: Marnie AndrewsEmail: mandrews@albany.eduOffice Phone: 917-701-4424Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 12:00-1:00 & 3:00-4:00, by appt. onlyOffice Location: PAC 346Catalog Number: Thr 240Y-0015Class Number: 9866 Prerequisite: This course does not require previous acting experience and encourages students to take artistic risks as a - [Classes](https://marnieandrews.com/teacher-guest-artist-lecturer/classes/) - Currently teaching Acting and Voice at the University at Albany. - [Lecture Texts](https://marnieandrews.com/teacher-guest-artist-lecturer/lecture-texts/) - FOOLS AND CRAZY PEOPLE.Notes on an adventurous life. (January, 2015, Eastern Illinois University.)“Only Fools and Crazy People could live here,” That was my brother-in-law snarling at me as he drove me back into NYC. I said, “Well, Allen, I guess I am both.”It was the mid 1970’s, New York City was near bankruptcy, and crime - [Recommendations](https://marnieandrews.com/director/recommendations/) - It is an honor and a pleasure to give high praise to Marnie Andrews. A gifted actor, director, and teacher, she is devoted to high artistic standards and true collaborationKevin Doolen - [Commercials](https://marnieandrews.com/actor/commercials/) - 646-486-4600 Older work Knorr Norstar Prudential 1-800 Tampax Careun1t Smokey Polaroid The Drug Testing Dilemma Triaminic Advil Marnie Andrews does a perfect portrayal of Emily mastering the determined, brutally honest character who struggles with the strain of poor health and a fear of dependency. This World Premiere play is written by award-winning playwright Richard Strand - [Video Exerpts](https://marnieandrews.com/actor/video-exerpts/) - Marnie Andrews, as Emily, is a savvy actress, even when only listening. Watching her face as she silently reacts to Margaret reading a first draft of the eulogy is a treat — the harder this impatient woman tries to cover up her dismay, the funnier she becomes.Ken JaworowkiNY Times Linda Scene from Jack Goes Home - [VO Reel](https://marnieandrews.com/actor/vo-reel/) - As written by Richard Strand and acted by Marnie Andrews, Emily Linder is the brilliant realization of all the irritating, demanding, hypercritical old ladies that we know and can’t help loving. After the play, you won’t forget Emily Linder.Madeline SchulmanThe Link News Current AAA Reelhttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AndrewsMarnie-Comm.mp3 Varioushttps://marnieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/01-Weight-Watchers.mp3 Aricept Voice Over - [Contact](https://marnieandrews.com/contact/) - First Last Email Subject Message Send - [Gardener](https://marnieandrews.com/gardener/) - My volunteer work revolves around creating a sustainable environment. To that end, I volunteer as a Master Gardener of Ulster County. After first training and volunteering as a Master Gardener in Los Angeles, I found it helped me find a community near my home.The Shandaken Community Gardens is one I helped foster where I live. We also build - [Writer](https://marnieandrews.com/writer/) - Singer is a gripping, emotional, deeply personal portrait of a young woman struggling to find her voice and her balance in a deafening, turbulent world. Marnie Andrews' heartbreak is rooted in life and her survival is rooted in music.Sybil Rosen ThomasBerrilla Kerr Foundation WRITINGPublished WorkTHE LAST ROLL (book)Jeff Jacobson, photographer, poem “The Trees of Miller - [Singer](https://marnieandrews.com/singer/) - Performs and records with various musicians. - [Actor](https://marnieandrews.com/actor/) - There are all kinds of laughs and “The Realization of Emily Linder” at the New Jersey Repertory Company gives us the best kind – the laughter of recognition. We know these characters. We know them from our own families – with all of the usual tensions, rivalries and see-saw emotions. We know them because they - [Director](https://marnieandrews.com/director/) - ...it came up that I had hired Marnie to teach at UAlbany and that we had worked together on a production she directed and I designed. The lead (an Equity actor in a production she designed,) immediately began to tell me at length about how wonderful Marnie Andrews is, and how terrific and generous she - [Teacher/Guest Artist/Lecturer](https://marnieandrews.com/teacher-guest-artist-lecturer/) - Teacher/Director at the University at Albany. Acting, VoiceI teach privately. Email for appointment. - [Performance](https://marnieandrews.com/performance/) ## Works - [BWW Interviews: Marnie Andrews in THE REALIZATION OF EMILY LINDER at NJ Rep](https://marnieandrews.com/works/bww-interviews-marnie-andrews-in-the-realization-of-emily-linder-at-nj-rep/) - By Marina P. Kennedy The Realization of Emily Linder will have its World Premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) from April 23rd through May 24th. The play is written by Richard Strand and directed by the theatre’s Artistic Director, SuzAnne Barabas. In this comedic-drama, Emily, an eccentric retired university professor has come to - [Reunions](https://marnieandrews.com/works/reunions/) - [The Mousetrap](https://marnieandrews.com/works/the-mousetrap/) - Guest Director Marnie Andrews The world's longest running play, now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary in its 60th year. A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of whom is a murderer. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and ## Categories - [Directing](https://marnieandrews.com/category/directing/) - [Acting](https://marnieandrews.com/category/acting/)