Andy Field

Andy Field (born 1983) is a theatremaker, blogger, curator and academic born in Stockport.

He is co-director of Forest Fringe, a multi award winning artist-led producing collective which originated in Bristo Hall at the Forest Caféduring the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and has since curated events, entitled "Microfestivals", in venues across the UK and Europe.Andy Field innovated The Travelling Sounds Library through Forest Fringe, a case of books containing audio-pieces by British Theatre artists, including Blast Theory and Melanie Wilson, which has travelled to venues throughout the UK.On their website Forest Fringe writes, "we try and serve as a bridge, finding imaginative ways to connect the country’s most innovative performance artists and theatremakers with new audiences, new supporters and new contexts for their work. "Most recently Forest Fringe created a book of DIY performances to be read at the Edinburgh Festival called "Paper Stages", featuring performance texts by Tim Etchells, Action Hero and Tania El Khoury.Readers could obtain a book by volunteering one hour at a local Edinburgh charity during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

He regularly blogs about art and experimental theatre for the Guardian Stage website and operates his own blog called Looking For Astronauts.

He has created and toured his own contemporary performance work in the UK and Europe, often featuring German performer Ira Brand and Canadian performer Chris Bailey.

He recently completed a practice-led PhD at Exeter University exploring the relationship between contemporary performance practice and experimental art happenings in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.

In 2009 he and Forest Fringe co-director Deborah Pearson were named in the Stage list of the 100 most influential people in British theatre.

• "Zilla". 5–6 May at the Junction, Cambridge
• "Motor Vehicle Sundown". February 2010 at the Arches, Glasgow. 10–19 August at SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto.6–15 September at BAC, London.
• "Crashsite". February 2012 at Culturgest, Lisbon.

• Herald Angel, 2008
• Peter Brook Award Special Mention, 2008
• A special Fringe First shared with The Arches for Innovating new forms of presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival, 2009
• Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe Shortlist, 2009
• Peter Brook Empty Space Award, 2009
• Herald Angel, 2011