Andrew Lush
is a filmmaker, performer, and educator from a rainy small town in the Pacific Northwest. He earned a BA in Film & Electronic Arts from Bard College and an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts, and studied digital cinematography at La Fémis in Paris. For a decade he made motion graphics in Los Angeles, including theatrical bumpers for Sundance in 2012, 2015, and 2016; and his short films have played at Outfest and Outfest Fusion, San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Perth’s PRIDE Queer Film Festival, and more. Visiting Hour, his feature screenplay about falling in love with a ghost, was a semi-finalist for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab in 2021. He co-wrote Müber, a comedy TV series about the gig economy, and in his spare time he collaborates with Jane Pickett at Nature Show. At night he goes to clown school.
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is a filmmaker, performer, and educator from a rainy small town in the Pacific Northwest. He earned a BA in Film & Electronic Arts from Bard College and an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts, and studied digital cinematography at La Fémis in Paris. For a decade he made motion graphics in Los Angeles, including theatrical bumpers for Sundance in 2012, 2015, and 2016; and his short films have played at Outfest and Outfest Fusion, San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Perth’s PRIDE Queer Film Festival, and more. Visiting Hour, his feature screenplay about falling in love with a ghost, was a semi-finalist for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab in 2021. He co-wrote Müber, a comedy TV series about the gig economy, and in his spare time he collaborates with Jane Pickett at Nature Show. At night he goes to clown school.
︎ Writer/Director
︎ Theater/Performance
︎ Video Editor
︎ Motion Graphics
IMDB
Vimeo
︎ Theater/Performance
PLAY: A Play (Test Run) - by Emily Mast, 2024. Performer
An improvisational performance structured as a game, where six performers navigate a set of absurd rules to create a constantly evolving, unpredictable work together. View project →
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Me, You, U.S. - Original CalArts MFA Production, 2019. Performer (Multiple Roles)
Acted in original theatrical works Roommates by Daisy Cheng-Ying Ho and Threads by Chenliang Zhu.
Image from Threads by Chenliang Zhu, with Lydia Lai:
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Bertolt Brecht, CalArts MFA Production, 2018. Associate Producer and Performer (Multiple Roles)
Bertolt Brecht's 1941 play, The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, follows the ascent of a simpleton bully from the fictitious town of Cicero as he transforms from social cast-off to a megalomaniac dictator poised to take over the world. A gangster spectacle, the play comedically parallels Hitler's rise to power in Germany, but also bears uncanny resemblance to other familiar figures. This subversive CalArts MFA production included a rotating cast - at times I played Arturo Ui, Goodwill, or The Judge.
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Your Motion Says: An Arthur Russell Tribute - by Andrew Lush, 2017. Solo Dance Artist
An improvisational dance work set to the music of Arthur Russell, part of the group show at Brian Getnick’s PAM. More info on PAM →
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summertime - by Andrew Lush, 2015. Solo Performance Artist
An original site-specific performance for homeLA, staged around a former swimming pool in San Marino. Beginning almost invisibly among the audience, I move from stillness to strenuous physical activity in the drained pool, shedding layers of clothing to end with my body entangled in ropes tethered to bricks. Inspired by nearly drowning at age three in a motel hot tub outside Disneyland, the work plays with memory, submersion, vulnerability, and restraint, accompanied by Elif Savas performing Gershwin’s Summertime live. View project →
Photos by Andrew Mandanich:
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pink and blue - by Andrew Lush, 2014. Solo Performance Artist
A semi-choreographed movement and video performance exploring queer adolescence, gender, masculinity, and physical vulnerability presented at the Frogtown Art Walk. Set against shifting fields of pink and blue, the piece draws on memories of sports, music, injury, and growing up queer in a small Northwestern town, building toward a repeated cycle of falling and recovery.
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ENDE (Like a New Beginning) Again - by Emily Mast, 2014. Performer
A one-hour live performance at Night Gallery expanding Emily Mast's ENDE, with an ensemble of performers activating a shifting environment of objects, movement, and interaction. View project →
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ENDE (Like a New Beginning) - by Emily Mast, 2014. Performer
A Hammer Museum commission for Made in L.A. 2014 combining video, objects, and unannounced live performances to explore memory, language, repetition, and human connection. View project →
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One Good Spell - by Brian Getnick, 2012. Dancer
A durational dance performance by Brian Getnick at Honor Fraser Gallery, created as part of his Green Year. Combining choreography, live music, magic, costumes, and sculptural puppets, the work unfolded through public rehearsals and performance, blurring the boundaries between installation and live action. View project →
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Vessels - by Hana van der Kolk, 2011. Dancer
A one-hour performance at the Hammer Museum in which five performers sustain the momentum of a circle through structured but open-ended movement and vocal directives, drawing on sacred and trance dance to explore body, consciousness, and collectivity. Watch excerpt →
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PLAY: A Play (Test Run) - by Emily Mast, 2024. Performer
An improvisational performance structured as a game, where six performers navigate a set of absurd rules to create a constantly evolving, unpredictable work together. View project →
Me, You, U.S. - Original CalArts MFA Production, 2019. Performer (Multiple Roles)
Acted in original theatrical works Roommates by Daisy Cheng-Ying Ho and Threads by Chenliang Zhu.
Image from Threads by Chenliang Zhu, with Lydia Lai:
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Bertolt Brecht, CalArts MFA Production, 2018. Associate Producer and Performer (Multiple Roles)
Bertolt Brecht's 1941 play, The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, follows the ascent of a simpleton bully from the fictitious town of Cicero as he transforms from social cast-off to a megalomaniac dictator poised to take over the world. A gangster spectacle, the play comedically parallels Hitler's rise to power in Germany, but also bears uncanny resemblance to other familiar figures. This subversive CalArts MFA production included a rotating cast - at times I played Arturo Ui, Goodwill, or The Judge.
Your Motion Says: An Arthur Russell Tribute - by Andrew Lush, 2017. Solo Dance Artist
An improvisational dance work set to the music of Arthur Russell, part of the group show at Brian Getnick’s PAM. More info on PAM →
summertime - by Andrew Lush, 2015. Solo Performance Artist
An original site-specific performance for homeLA, staged around a former swimming pool in San Marino. Beginning almost invisibly among the audience, I move from stillness to strenuous physical activity in the drained pool, shedding layers of clothing to end with my body entangled in ropes tethered to bricks. Inspired by nearly drowning at age three in a motel hot tub outside Disneyland, the work plays with memory, submersion, vulnerability, and restraint, accompanied by Elif Savas performing Gershwin’s Summertime live. View project →
Photos by Andrew Mandanich:
pink and blue - by Andrew Lush, 2014. Solo Performance Artist
A semi-choreographed movement and video performance exploring queer adolescence, gender, masculinity, and physical vulnerability presented at the Frogtown Art Walk. Set against shifting fields of pink and blue, the piece draws on memories of sports, music, injury, and growing up queer in a small Northwestern town, building toward a repeated cycle of falling and recovery.
ENDE (Like a New Beginning) Again - by Emily Mast, 2014. Performer
A one-hour live performance at Night Gallery expanding Emily Mast's ENDE, with an ensemble of performers activating a shifting environment of objects, movement, and interaction. View project →
ENDE (Like a New Beginning) - by Emily Mast, 2014. Performer
A Hammer Museum commission for Made in L.A. 2014 combining video, objects, and unannounced live performances to explore memory, language, repetition, and human connection. View project →
One Good Spell - by Brian Getnick, 2012. Dancer
A durational dance performance by Brian Getnick at Honor Fraser Gallery, created as part of his Green Year. Combining choreography, live music, magic, costumes, and sculptural puppets, the work unfolded through public rehearsals and performance, blurring the boundaries between installation and live action. View project →
Vessels - by Hana van der Kolk, 2011. Dancer
A one-hour performance at the Hammer Museum in which five performers sustain the momentum of a circle through structured but open-ended movement and vocal directives, drawing on sacred and trance dance to explore body, consciousness, and collectivity. Watch excerpt →
