Andrew MacBean

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Andrew MacBean is a theatre director and writer based in New York City, New York and London, England.

He was born in Toronto, Ontario on February 7, 1963, grew up in Pickering and Toronto, and attended Queen's University, Ontario, where he received a B.A. in Drama and Music. He then studied directing as an intern at Playwright's Horizons, in New York City, and was a senior member of the BMI musical theatre workshop, first under Lehman Engel, then Maury Yeston.

He is known in Canada as Gilbert Blythe on the original cast recording of Anne of Green Gables, a role he performed for three years.

He founded Theatreworks in London, England in the 1990's. He was associate director with Trevor Nunn on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard. He then worked as Trevor Nunn's associate director on Anything Goes at the Royal National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

He works extensively in the corporate world, bringing business ideas to life in a stage environment. His most extensive corporate work is with Coca-Cola worldwide.

He has since started work on a new musical, Raindogs which received a showcase in London in 2007. It features additional material by Paul Chant and Boko Suzuki. As a freelance director, he directs plays and musicals- in 2007 he directed a 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story, and is currently directing Sound of Music with a London cast to be taken to Cyprus. He recently worked with William Finn directing the West End premiere of Finn's Make Me A Song.