TINA ANDREWS is an international, multiple award-winning screenwriter, playwright, author, director, producer, and visual artist who stands as a transformative figure in contemporary storytelling, weaving together threads of history, culture, and personal triumph across stage, screen, and books.  Her body of work is marked by an unwavering commitment to illuminating untold stories, challenging conventions, and celebrating the richness of lived experience.

 

She has adapted her current novel Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal ​Affair from Jacaranda Books, based on Britain’s Queen Charlotte, who was of Moorish descent, into a play and a film, which she and EGOT Whoopi Goldberg will produce after Miss Goldberg featured her book on The View. The audiobook of the novel, narrated by British actress Adjoa Andoh who plays “Lady Danbury” on Netflix’s “Bridgerton”, became one of the top 20 audiobooks of 2021. and the book's film and television rights were sold to HBO Max for an original series on which Andrews will serve as creator, executive producer, and writer. It will be produced by her company TAO Entertainment Group

 

Andrews wrote and Executive Produced the #1, award-winning 4-hour CBS Limited Series Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, about the relationship between third United States president, Thomas Jefferson, and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. It was based on her play, The Mistress of Monticello. For it, she garnered the Writers Guild of America Award for “Outstanding Television Long Form” (the first person of color to win) and an NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding TV Movie, Miniseries or Special.” CBS bought the miniseries based on her play The Mistress of Monticello, which Tina originally wrote and directed at the Chicago Dramatists Workshop. Her nonfiction book Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, (The Malibu Press), won the NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Literary Nonfiction” and the Literary Award of Excellence from the Memphis Writers Conference. Andrews’ contribution to film and television led her to be honored with a Proclamation from the City Council of New York.

 

In theater, Andrews has directed not only her own plays, Frankie, Buckingham, and The Mistress of Monticello for the Southampton Cultural Center (SCC), but the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, and Venus in Fur by David Ives at the renowned Guild Hall Theater in East Hampton. Additionally, Tina directed her one-woman show: Coretta: Promise to The Dream, in which she starred as Coretta Scott King at the SCC where she is a Playwright-in-Residence. Miss Andrews has also been named an "Associated Artist" at The Playground Theatre in London where she presents her plays "Across the Pond." 

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Known as a “Historical Griot” in film, television, and theatre, Miss Andrews was also the writer and Executive Producer of the 4-hour CBS miniseries, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; and wrote the Warner Bros. film, Why Do Fools Fall in Love starring Halle Berry. She has written four books (two novels and two nonfiction), and has an essay in the book, The First Time I Got Paid for It: Writers Tales from the Hollywood Trenches. She also has published essays in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Written By, Contents, and Creative Screenwriting magazines.

 

After New York University where she majored in theater, Andrews performed as an actress in over 100 film/television roles including Conrack, starring Jon Voight, Carny starring Jodie Foster, and her pivotal role as “Valerie Grant” on Days Of Our Lives in daytime television’s first interracial romance. But the role of Kunta Kinte’s friend in the acclaimed miniseries ROOTS led to an incredible collaboration with the man who became her literary mentor, author Alex Haley. They collaborated on the  PBS series: Alex Haley’s Great Men of African Descent, which led Tina to her first job as a screenwriter at Columbia Pictures.

 

Andrews has made contributions to the new West End bound Chaka Khan musical, I’m Every Woman, and is currently prepping to direct and star in her one-woman play based on her upcoming book My Life in the Abstract at The Playground Theatre in London. She is also developing a new series with Taraji P. Henson and TPH Entertainment about the fashion world seen through the lens of the Ebony/Jet Fashion Fair tours. Miss Andrews also has a three-book series publishing deal with Jacaranda Books, UK on the Kandake of Kush.

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Tina has been a guest on Oprah; CBS This Morning;  Frontline (PBS) and more.  She has lectured on writing at New York University, University of Southern California, UCLA, Indiana University and the University of North Carolina. She serves (or has served) on the board of directors of the Writers Guild Foundation, the  Southampton Cultural Center; the Playground Theatre in London; and the advisory board of Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA..

 

As a writer named one of 50 To Watch by Hollywood Daily Variety, Andrews’ creative pursuits have continually bridged the gap between art and social discourse, making her a sought-after voice in international literary and enter-tainment circles.

 

She lives in New York and London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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