Andrew is a tenure-track professor of animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he specializes in teaching stop-motion, post-production techniques, and performance for animators. A professional animator and filmmaker, he has worked on studio productions from Burbank to Montréal and continues to collaborate with mission-driven organizations, including the Center for American Progress.

Andrew’s creative research practice focuses on animated documentary and social-impact storytelling. Current projects include a pair of short animated docs about gun violence prevention developed with survivors and advocates, and he is in preproduction for a more traditional stop-motion film. He was recently published in the 3rd edition of “Frame by Frame Stop Motion: The Guide to Non-Puppet Photographic Animation Techniques,” having been invited to contribute a chapter on post-production workflows unique to stop-motion.

He came to animation by way of performance, as an award-winning union actor with more than a decade of teaching in theatre arts. Andrew holds an MFA in Film and Animation from RIT—where his thesis received the Faculty Animation Award and screened internationally—and a terminal MA in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs from American University.

Andrew is especially passionate about teaching, and has a variety of research interests regarding his belief that film and animation have the power to make the world a more equitable place for all.