Acting for Non-Majors

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Margo Andrews is an assistant professor/lecturer in the theatre department at the University of Utah and the director of the theatre program at The Utah Museum of Natural History. She is originally from Utah and is also a graduate of the Actor Training Program here at the university. Additionally, she has trained at the esteemed American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA and Trinity Repertory Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island.

Margo’s professional career includes over 20 years of experience in stage work, television and film. With five national tours to her credit, she has performed in 48 states. Anyone with jobs in Alaska or Hawaii should see her immediately. Her commercial and industrial film credits include work for such companies as Target, Ford Motors, USSB television, 3M, and Dayton Hudson just to name a few. As a director, she had the honor of staging the world premiere of Laurie Brook’s Everyday Heroes for the Winter Olympics. In her position as director of the theatre program at UMNH, Margo creates short pieces that enhance and interpret the exhibits and dramatize the research of various professors on campus. Her show Hipper and Hopper: Two TOADally Awesome Frogs has been a big hit with crowds at the museum, and the show will play this spring through fall.

Her favorite role is most definitely that of a professor here at the U, and she looks forward to connecting with each student as an individual.