ANDREW OSBORNE

Biography

Andrew Osborne received a B.A. in English from Harvard University in the spring of 1991.  While in college, he was a comedy writer for The Harvard Lampoon, an arts reporter for The Harvard Crimson and studied acting with Brian Cox (X2, The Ring), Ken Howard (The White Shadow) and the American Repertory Theater's David Wheeler.

During time away from college, Andrew got his start as a screenwriter at Troma, Inc. on the ultra-low-budget superhero spoof Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD.  After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied improvisational acting with Lisa Kudrow (Friends) and Patrick Bristow (Curb Your Enthusiasm) at the famed Groundlings Theater.  In 1993, he became a screenwriter for the Motion Picture Corporation of America, where he co-wrote the HBO Original Movies Soldier Boyz (uncredited) and Behind Enemy Lines.  He also co-wrote and designed several movie-based games for the company's interactive division, including the murder mystery title Blue Heat, starring Elliot Gould and Paul Sorvino.

In 1994, Andrew directed Apocalypse Bop, an independent feature which premiered at Boston’s Coolidge Corner Cinema in 1996, and has since been released on video through E.I. Independent Cinema.

In 1999, Andrew was hired to write the film Dramarama for Warner Bros. (which almost but not quite starred Lindsay Lohan, back when she was a nice, respectable girl).

In 2000, he co-wrote On_Line, an independent feature which screened at the 2002 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, followed by theatrical distribution in 2003 and a 2004 video/DVD release.

Together with On_Line director Jed Weintrob, Andrew has collaborated on numerous projects including The F-Word (an independent feature film starring Josh Hamilton which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival), Awake (a screenplay for Michael Douglas through Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment), Super Vision (a multimedia theatrical piece for the Builder's Association in New York City) and an unproduced project for MTV.

In 2008, Andrew received an Emmy for his work as a staff writer on the Discovery Channel game show Cash Cab.  His other credits include numerous indie films, computer games and theatrical productions, as well as contributions to Bart Simpson's Fun Pages, Cracked, The National Lampoon and the Platinum Studios comic book Indestructible Man.  He's written and directed several original productions for the Massachusetts-based Pinehills Players (including Murder on the Mayflower, in association with Plimoth Plantation).  He is also a writing, acting and filmmaking teacher with past and current classes at UCLA Extension, the Tufts University Experimental College, Quincy College, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Brookline Adult & Community Education, Boston Casting and the Burt Wood School.

Andrew Osborne currently lives in Boston, where he is working on a new indie film, writes for "The Screengrab" on Nerve.com and hopes to someday finish the novel he started while earning his Masters degree at the University of Massachusetts.