Artistic Director Dwight Andrews

:Meet Dr. Dwight Andrews, NBAF Artistic Director

Newly named NBAF Artistic Director, Dwight Andrews is a composer, educator, and minister. A native of Detroit, Dr. Andrews is an Associate Professor of Music at Emory University. After graduating from Cass Technical High School, he received his Bachelors and Master's degrees in music from the University of Michigan. He continued his studies at Yale University, receiving a Master of Divinity degree and Ph. D. in Music Theory. His dissertation explores the pitch and rhythmic organization in Igor Stravinsky's early music. His current research activities include work on a manuscript on the history of jazz and an essay on twentieth century rhythm.

While at Yale, Andrews served as Associate Pastor of Christ's Church and was on the faculty of the Music Department and African and African American Studies Program for over ten years. He also served as the Resident Music Director (1979-1986) at the Yale Repertory Theater under Lloyd Richards. Andrews served as music director for the Broadway Productions of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Tumer's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson and Seven Guitars.

Other theatre credits include OyamO's The Resurrection of Lady Lester, Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, James Lapine's OBIE-Award winning production of Gertrude Stein's Photograph, the Alliance Theatre's production of David Feldshuh's Miss Evers Boys, and Huntington Theatre's production of Ida Mae Holland's From the Mississippi Delta. In addition, he is a Resident Artist at the Alliance Theatre and has provided the music direction for Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and Bourbon at the Border.

Andrews' film credits include serving as the principal composer and music supervisor for Louis Massiah's documentary film on W.E.B. DuBois which recently aired on PBS. He also served as Music supervisor for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie, The Piano Lesson and the HBO television movie, Miss Evers Boys, starring Alfre Woodard and Lawrence Fishburne.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including an NAACP Theatre Award, a Mellon Fellowship, and Emory University's Distinguished Teacher Award. In 1997 he served as the first Quincy Jones Visiting Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. In addition, Andrews serves as Senior Minister of Atlanta's First Congregational United Church of Christ.

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