About
Andrea Berting is a live theater professional, having spent most of her career backstage in the world of wardrobe. It took a global pandemic closing down theaters worldwide to get her to sit down and write her first screenplay, but now that she’s started she can’t stop. Her dramedy feature, BREAST IN SHOW, won Best Original Comedy Feature at the 2022 Richmond International Film Festival, as well as earning her a position as an ISA Fast Track Fellow. She was also named one of NetworkISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2024.
Considering her professional background in live theater it took a surprisingly long time for Andrea to start writing for stage, but she is now a proud, produced playwright. Her ten-minute play LITTLE KASIA MEETS THE GOD OF DEATH was a part of the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theater’s 10 Minute Play Festival, and was also selected to represent the Festival performing live on North Dakota Today. In addition, her romantic dramedy RED DEVIL won the 2025 Meanwhile Park Playwright Prize.
As a young breast cancer survivor who struggles with bipolar disorder, Andrea uses real-life experience to inspire women-centered stories about finding the joy and levity inside heartbreak and tragedy. Andrea received her BFA in Theater Education from VCU in Richmond, VA. She lives in Chicago with her husband and very anxious rescue dog. You can keep up with Andrea on Instagram or Twitter at @andreaberting.
Literary Manager:
Allen Eckhouse
Logical Talent Management
allen@logicaltalent.com
Screenplays
- BREAST IN SHOW
- A young breast cancer patient teaches her senior support group members to learn to love their bodies again through the art of burlesque.
- dramedy feature - 50/50 meets THE FULL MONTY meets BURLESQUE
- NEUROTRANSMISSION
- When a young woman with bipolar disorder realizes that her supernatural abilities aren’t just in her head, she teams up with her psychiatrist to find stability while saving their city from an otherworldly threat.
- one-hour sci-fi pilot - LEGION meets SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
- BIG SKY COUNTRY
- To make it back to Montana in time for her father’s funeral, an uptight city girl reluctantly joins in on a road trip with a free-spirited middle-aged suburbanite.
- road trip comedy feature - PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES meets HACKS
- POWER 10
- (Currently rewriting - newest draft available soon!)
- When the wealthy benefactor of a charity rowing team for breast cancer survivors passes away, the crew must win a medal at their next regatta to achieve continued financial support from her competition-obsessed son.
- sports comedy feature - A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN meets 80 FOR BRADY
Stage plays
- RED DEVIL
- full length romantic dramedy
- This play, named after a particularly harsh type of chemotherapy, is about two elderly queer breast cancer patients finding love in the infusion room. Alongside this is a young influencer-type documenting her treatment for the world to see, and working to bring the two older women together. Red Devil is partially inspired by my own experience as a young breast cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with Stage 2B breast cancer at age 30.
- LITTLE KASIA MEETS THE GOD OF DEATH
- 10 minute drama
- When a Polish preteen in 1900 discovers she has been left at the Danzig docks by her family on their immigration to America, she is taken in by an unexpected stranger - the ancient Slavic god of death himself, Czernobog. Little Kasia Meets the God of Death is loosely inspired by my great-grandmother’s real-life immigration story, coming from Poland to the US at the turn of the last century.
Produced shorts
- EYE CANDY
- When a popular camgirl holds a sexy virtual seance, she and her online fans get more than they bargained for when a spirit actually makes contact.
- SWEET BEET (Coming Soon)
- A young widow discovers that her late husband can possess her new boyfriend when he spends the night, and drugs the boyfriend to have more time with the spirit of her husband.
Press
With sharp dialogue, intergenerational wit, and a beautiful final twist, this play becomes a love story about survival, visibility, and dancing through grief.
...Red Devil becomes something rare: a story that leaves the room quieter, more open, and maybe—just maybe—more willing to love without guarantees.
Alternately touching and hilarious...
...wonderfully crafted story...
...exquisitely balanced wit and emotional sincerity...
Podcast
“The Writer’s Cut” is a movie review and discussion podcast for screenwriters, by screenwriters Andrea Berting and Trevor Owens. Each week, they discuss a film that won a screenwriting award from the Writers Guild of America, starting with the first awards in 1949 and moving on towards today. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Contact
- andreaberting@gmail.com
- @andreaberting
- @andreaberting
