About Andie
Andie Redwine likes a good story.
As a kindergartner, she fell in love with the Art Table at Roosevelt Elementary, where she busily created paper puppets and crafted tales about Batgirl making soup - complete with accompanying recipes.
As a high school student, Andie was accepted as part of the inaugural class of the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. Incoming Indiana high school guinea pig juniors were selected to live in Wagoner Hall on the campus of Ball State University for a grand living-learning experiment forever altering the trajectory of their lives.
Under the sharp eyes and wits of some of the finest educators to ever hold chalk, Andie blossomed as a writer and thinker. While at the Academy, she landed a research project comparing John Locke and Henry David Thoreau for the former Younger Scholars Program for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She used the grant funding to buy her first car.
Andie served as an editor of The Warren, the Academy's literary magazine, served as a producer and stage manager in the Experimental Theatre troupe, eagerly steeped and sipped as a charter member of the Herbal Tea Club, and co-created a somewhat avant-garde and frequently misunderstood student newspaper column entitled Mo' Betta Bagels. When she graduated from the Academy, US Senator Richard Lugar presented her and the rest of the inaugural class with Honors medals, launching an award lust she fights to this day.
After trying a few different colleges in a pay-as-you-go plan – Earlham, Ball State, Indiana University, and Saint Louis University – she felt at home at the former Bible chair of The University of Texas, then called Austin Graduate School of Theology. While in Austin, she incorporated Texas Longhorn football into her life as a soul-cleansing spiritual practice.
While rocking a scared baby late into the night, she had an idea for a story. She scratched an outline on a legal pad with the baby still in hand, learned screenwriting with the support of her Mo' Betta Bagels collaborator, assembled a team of all-stars, and the result was PARADISE RECOVERED. The indie feature premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis and the Austin Film Festival in Austin, TX, in the same week. She and her beloved cohort won the Grand Jury prize, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay awards at several film festivals and landed a Netflix deal.
Andie used her new spotlight to help for-profit, nonprofit, educational, and government entities craft written and film narratives for their businesses and missions, securing over $100M in development funding for her clients.
As a filmmaker, Andie returned to the Indiana Academy and taught students how to write and produce a short film, THE DEAN'S LIST. The film was an official student selection at Indy Film Fest alongside shorts from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and USC Film School. She won the Indiana Film Journalists Association's The Hoosier Award – Indiana's Best Contribution to Motion Pictures. The State of Indiana awarded her the ISBDC Edge Award for innovation in emerging small business. She directed two documentaries for PBS – BEST DAYS AHEAD and CLESSIE CUMMINS: HOOSIER INVENTOR.
To further hone her craft and as a bit of sabbatical, Andie won a merit scholarship and graduated with an MFA from Louisville's Spalding University's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing with a concentration in Writing for TV, Stage, and Screen. She got pretty good grades.
Her MFA Extended Critical Essay became the basis for an academic podcast on Disney narrative filmography and book to be published by McFarland Publishing. She serves as a Spalding Alumni Association Advisory Committee member and gets home to The Brown Hotel in Louisville as often as possible.
Today, Andie is the CEO of Write By The Glass LLC. She enjoys writing, consulting, directing, grant writing, copyediting stage and screenplays, and shepherding storytelling projects of many types.
Andie spoils her two rescue dogs. She adores her family. She loves using her words to raise money for economic justice. She loves outside-the-box thinking, Sicilian-style lasagna, classic films, and good trouble. She is always up for a game of Euchre.
And she still loves bringing people together to the art table to make the puppets.
But enough about Andie. She's ready to hear your story – and help you refine it.
