Education
She attended Donnybrook District High School and Bunbury Senior High School. She attended Curtin University of Technology where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in theatre.
She attended Donnybrook District High School and Bunbury Senior High School. She attended Curtin University of Technology where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in theatre.
She spent her childhood on a family farm in the small country town of Donnybrook, Western Australia. In 1995 she moved to Perth, Western Australia at the age of 17. After working in Edinburgh, Scotland for a year with the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, she returned to Perth in 2001 and joined improvising comedy troupe The Big HOO HAA!.
She performed with them regularly as well as writing, producing, and acting in numerous other theatre productions and short films.
She is one of Perth"s most outstanding comedians having performed both Australia-wide and overseas (United States/Canada). In 2004, she entered Triple J’s Raw Comedy competition performing stand-up for the first time and was a Western Australian state finalist.
Late in 2005 she was headhunted by Southern Cross Broadcasting and co-hosted 96fm’s Breakfast Show, one of Washington"s highest rating breakfast shows, until 2007. She has continued to work in radio with American Broadcasting Company & RTRfm as a guest.
In 2006 she was hand picked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival talent scouts to perform in The Comedy Zone, a showcase of Australian comedy’s hottest new releases.
She returned there for the 2008 festival with her highly successful one-person show STARKERS. Her television credits include "Very Small Business" (ABCTV) and "Stepmonsters" (Nickelodeon). In 2009 she made her feature film debut in "My Year without Sex", written and directed by Sarah Watts and starring Matt Day and Sacha Horler. Andrea has performed with Perth Theatre Company, Red Ryder Productions and Barkin Gecko Theatre Company and she appears regularly in The Big HOO HAA! and Free Love Improv in Perth.
Andrea is the co-creator of Barefaced Stories and can be seen on stage with The Big HOO-HAA! currently touring Australia.