Andrew Hobgood is the founding Artistic Director of The New Colony. For TNC, he has directed Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess, FRAT, Hearts Full of Blood (formerly Calls to Blood), co-wrote and directed Tupperware: An American Musical Fable and That Sordid Little Story, and directed the performances in the company’s inaugural film So Many Days. He won a 2006 FringeNYC award for Outstanding Musical for 58! A Comedy about Bike Messengessengering, a 2008 FringeNYC award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy, which he also co-wrote and directed, and which went on to win three After Dark Awards in Chicago. In 2010, he took Hearts Full of Blood to FringeNYC where it won Outstanding Playwright and extended its run as part of the Fringe Encore Series. He and The New Colony were featured at Collaboraction’s Sketchbook Festival for the last two years, winning critical praise for A Domestic Disturbance at Little Fat Charlie’s Seventh Birthday Party, and Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which also won the Audience Favorite award. He has created shows for Victory Gardens Theatre’s Fresh Squeezed Series and was recently asked to create a short, audience-interactive play for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Outside of theater, he has spent the last ten years of his life as a business consultant, working with clients to inject creativity into American business.