Andrew Saito is a mixed-race, multilingual writer who creates stories for stage and screen that focus on intersectionality and hybridity. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Papua New Guinea. He was Andrew W. Mellon Resident Playwright at the Cutting Ball Theater, which produced his plays Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night and Mount Misery. Other productions include Stegosaurus (or) Three Cheers for Climate Change (FaultLine Theater), El Río (Brava & Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience), and Br’er Peach(AlterTheater & Parsnip Ship). He is commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative and Montalvo Arts Center to write a play about African American soldiers creating radio propaganda for the Japanese government during WWII. He is a member of The Civilians’ Research and Development Group, and has been a resident artist at Playwrights Foundation, AlterTheater, Just Theater, Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, Montalvo, and Arquetopia Foundation (Puebla, Mexico). Internationally, he has worked with the legendary Peruvian theater Yuyachkani, Conjunto Cultural Korimakao (Cuba), and Asociación Xajooj Tun (Guatemala). He graduated from the ViacomCBS 2020-21 Writers Mentoring Program, and was a staff writer on The Lost Symbol. He is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America.