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Andrew Cheng
Unions: ACTRA Apprentice
Height: 5’ 9’’
Weight: 155 lbs
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Brown

Andrew is a Toronto based actor, dramaturg, writer, and comedian. Recently, he was nominated for the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for the CBC comedy special Gavin Crawford's Wild West (2013) and won the 2014 Comedy Greenroom/Yuk Yuk's Give Me a Spot Comedy Contest. 

As a dramaturg he currently serves as associate dramaturg for fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company and as the resident dramaturg for Sky Gilbert’s Cabaret Company from 2009-2011.  For fu-GEN: Yellow Face (In association with Hart House), lady in the red dress  and sex tape project.  For The Cabaret Company: The Kitchen Party Nervous Breakdown Reality T.V. ShowWhy We Tortured Him and Reconciliation.   Andy has also directed readings of new works for SummerWorks, fu-GEN’s Potluck Festival and TheatreKairos’ HOTscrawlsFestival.  In 2010 he completed an internship at Factory Theatre as a co-curator of the CrossCurrents Festival. He also wrote and performed Not Into Asians which was presented at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as part of the 2011 Pride Fest.  

In television he has also worked as a creative consultant and story-editor for projects in development for CBC and CTV.  

He is a graduate of York University’s MFA program in Theatre.

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