As a stage performer, Andrew Borba most recently appeared as Johnny Carson and Edgar Rosenberg in the new play Joan (about Joan Rivers) at South Coast Repertory and Barrington Stage. His South Coast Rep credits also include Sight Unseen, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and Lovers and Executioners.
Other stage appearances include:
- Private Lives, The Constant Wife, It’s a Wonderful Life (Pasadena Playhouse)
- Pericles, The Countess (The Old Globe)
- Medea, Dorian Gray (Theatre @ Boston Court)
- Uncle Vanya (Antaeus Company and Chalk Rep)
- Noises Off (Rubicon Theatre)
- The 39 Steps (La Mirada Theatre)
- Tranced (Laguna Playhouse)
- Closer (Berkeley Rep)
- Title role in Richard III (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis)
Andrew has worked with The Chautauqua Theater Company for 18 seasons and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for five. Additional regional credits include Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Hangar Theatre.
Film credits include:
Unstoppable (dir. William Goldenberg, with Don Cheadle, Bobby Cannavale, Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez),
Straight Outta Compton,
Taken 3,
Interstellar,
Answers to Nothing,
Charlie Wilson’s War,
Nine Lives,
The Sweet Life,
Live from Baghdad,
Path to War,
A Bright Shining Lie, and the short Dead in the Room (with Patrick Adams).
TV credits include recurring roles on Bosch: Legacy, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, Jericho, The Shield, The Client List, Star Trek: Enterprise, and guest appearances on more than 35 series.
As a director, Borba helmed Go West! The Mythology of American Expansion, a multidisciplinary performance involving over 400 performers, at the Chautauqua Institution. Other major directing work includes:
- Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, Ellis Island by Peter Boyer (Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra)
- Julius Caesar (PlayMakers Rep, New Swan Shakespeare Festival)
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Detroit Public Theater)
- Hamlet: The First Quarto (Theatre of NOTE, LA) – a multi-award-winning production cited in The Cambridge and Arden editions
- Numerous productions with Chalk Rep, Lillian Theatre, Hudson Theatre, and Chautauqua Theater Company
- Academic productions at UC Irvine, Juilliard, USC, and NYU
As a text coach, he has worked on Shakespeare productions at New Jersey Shakespeare Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, and for 18 seasons at Chautauqua Theater Company.
Andrew has also produced two one-person shows for PBS: No Child (with Nilaja Sun) and From Broadway to Obscurity (with Eric Gutman).
He currently serves as Head of Graduate Acting at the University of California, Irvine and has taught at USC, UCLA, Juilliard, University of Tennessee, and NYU.
He is a former Artistic Director (8 years) and Associate Artistic Director (8 years prior) of the Chautauqua Theater Company, a member of The Antaeus Theater Company, and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and SDC. He is a cum laude graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA from NYU.