Professional Bio
Andy
Bayiates is a playwright and sole proprietor of FirstPersonAstrolgy.com.
Astrology columnist for Time
Out Chicago Magazine (2005 - 2007) and Neo-Futurist
alumni (1999-2005), Bayiates has been communicating to the masses
professionally for eight years.
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 in 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 happens to be 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) and in The
Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America (St. Martin's
Griffin, 2006). He has also written (non-astrology) for Time Out
Chicago Magazine and the Southern Illinoisan newspaper.
Currently, Bayiates is growing his new business, raising his daughter,
rennovating the old Victorian that's been in his wife's family for
more than 100 years, and writing for his other projects: technical
writing for a Chicago-based software company and working on his
latest play, A History of Human Stupidity, with Rough and
Tumble Theatre of Berkely, CA. . He lives in Carbondale, Illinois,
with his wife, Genevra Gallo, their daughter, Ariana, and their
Boston Terrier, Simon.
