professional bio

Andy Bayiates is a Chicago-based playwright and Neo-Futurist alumnus (1999-2005). He writes and reads stories on stage and contributes material weekly to the radio show (and podcast) Insects and Robots on CJLY Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, B.C. 

Bayiates was the astrology columnist for Time Out Chicago Magazine (2005-2007).

He wrote and performed in the ever-changing Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) through 2004, also appearing in seven other Neo-Futurist productions: The Unfinished Works of Sir Linear Scribble, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Missing Parts, his own solo performance SubliMania as well as the successful 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, for which he was founding father and co-writer; Chicago: A Special Report from the News Show as cowriter and performer; A 60-Minute History of Humankind, as writer and director; and in his last stage appearance in 2005, he cowrote and performed in the gratifying hit, Daredevils!

His plays have been produced in Boston; Chicago; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Atlanta; Edinburg, Scotland; Geva Theater in Rochester, New York; The O'Neill National Theater Institute; and the 25th Annual Humana Festival at The Actor's Theater of Louisville. 43 Plays was remounted by Sean Daniels at Dad's Garage in Atlanta, where former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn attended a performance. The play has been published by Playscripts, Inc. and continues to be remounted around the country including at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville in 2008. A 60-Minute History of Humankind, mounted in the fall of 2003, appeared breifly on the NBC reality TV show Starting Over.

Andy is the voice of Trip on the award-winning, interactive, artificial intelligence-based drama, Facade.

In addition to Playscripts, Inc., Bayiates' work has been published in Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays (Smith & Kraus, 2002), 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing, 2004.) A post from his blog, The Outside Eye, was published in The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006). He's also written non-astrological copy for Time Out Chicago Magazine and the Southern Illinoisan newspaper.

Currently, Bayiates is working as a technical writer for ZS Associates, writing and reading stories for audiences around the city and cramming in time to contribute to Insects & Robots. He's currently collaborating with composer Jonathan Mastro on his first musical: Self-Doubt: The Musical.

His play, A History of Human Stupidity, will receive its world-premiere production by Rough & Tumble of Berkeley, CA. The show opens on April 9, 2010 at LaVal's Subterranean Theatre in Berkeley.

Bayiates lives in Evanston, IL with his wife, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates and their daughter, Ariana.