Andrea Andresakis, a native New Yorker, began her career performing at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet as a student of the School of American Ballet. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts and appeared in both the film and television series Fame. Other performing credits include: the Majestic Theatre on Broadway; the Metropolitan Opera, The New York City Opera, Alvin Ailey III; Radio City Music Hall, the Goodspeed Opera House as well as national tours and regional theatre. Ms. Andresakis has toured with shows in Japan, Norway, France and South America. She has worked with George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Franco Zefferelli, Mercedes Ellington and Onna White. Ms. Andresakis assisted Jacques d'Amboise on Dancin'Man, Peter Gennaro at the Broadhurst Theatre and also on Mr. d'Amboise's production of Romeo and Juliet for The National Dance Institute.

New York City musical theatre credits include: The Little Prince (Merkin Concert Hall): Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury): Nellie, about Nellie Bly (Lamb’s Theater) and a contemporary version of Babes in Arms (Black Spectrum Theatre). New York City play directing credits include: Lee Blessing’s Down the Road; Neil Simon’s Star Spangled Girl (Playwright’s Horizons); A Belly Dancer’s Story (the Kraine) and Stragglers and Damaged Goods (on Theatre Row). She was the Associate Artistic Director of the American Playwright’s Theatre where she directed Mimi and Me and Lucy’s Waltz. Other directing/choreography credits include national tours of Maiden's Consent and The Barber of Seville, The Musical as well as two new musicals entitled, Vampires in da' House and The Marvelous Wonderettes.  Regional productions include Joseph  and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Sweet Charity, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 42nd St., Big River, Secret Garden, The Fantasticks (Allenberry Playhouse) and Fame (The Barrington Stage Company). Opera credits include Norma and Aida for Opera Verrismo in New Jersey, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, Princess Ida and The Sorcerer for Troupers Light Opera in Connecticut and an evening of scenes from Rigoletto, Carmen, Turandot, Trouble in Tahiti and Regina at the Chautauqua Opera. She also choreographed Die Fledermaus at the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York. Ms. Andresakis worked for the New Haven Ballet as Ballet Mistress and has choreographed many ballets to music by Beethoven, Chopin, David Bowie and Led Zeppelin. She was the resident choreographer in Rotterdam, Holland for the project Netherlands 2001 which addressed the racial problems in that country.

Ms. Andresakis was on the adjunct faculty at CUNY, Queens College where she directed and choreographed The Fantasticks.  She taught dance and choreographed two revue- style shows at SUNY, Purchase. Other teaching credits include: The National Dance Institute, Jacques d'Amboise, founder; The Main Street Theatre, NYC; Frenchwoods Festival of Performing Arts, NY; Gateway Playhouse, NY; Great Neck Arts Center, NY; PS87, NYC and the Wilton Conservatory of Dance, CT. Her Ballroom Dance experience includes teaching for the Arthur Murray and the Fred Astaire Dance Studios in New York City and studying with Pierre Dulane (about whom there are two films, the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom and Take the Lead, with Antonio Banderas).