WASHINGTON, DC, February 22, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- John F. Andrews, OBE, has been included in Marquis volumes such as Who's Who in America since 1984, when he was completing a decade as Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. Since then he has held positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and the Nation's Capital Branch of the English-Speaking Union. He now focuses his efforts primarily on The Shakespeare Guild, a global not-for-profit organization that Dr. Andrews founded in 1987. The Guild is best known for the Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, which was inaugurated in 1994, and has been presented in such settings as the Folger Shakespeare Library and the British Embassy in Washington, the Barrymore Theatre, Lincoln Center, and the National Arts Club in New York, and Middle Temple Hall and the Guildhall in London. Recipients have included F. Murray Abraham, Dame Eileen Atkins, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Caldwell, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael Kahn, Kevin Kline, Sir Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Donald Sinden, and Sir Patrick Stewart. Another signature Guild offering is its popular Speaking of Shakespeare series, which commenced at the National Press Club in D.C.in 1998 and has been presented in a variety of settings from New York to Santa Fe over the last two decades.
A native of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Dr. Andrews holds degrees from Princeton (A.B. 1965), Harvard (M.A.T. 1966), and Vanderbilt (Ph.D. 1971) and has taught in such institutions as the University of Tennessee - Nashville, Florida State University, the Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, and George Washington University. He has lectured in a variety of settings, among them the Smithsonian Institution, the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Cambridge, the QE2, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, and Meisei University in Japan.
From 1974 to 1985 he edited Shakespeare Quarterly and oversaw a Folger publication program that produced such classics as Shakespeare on the American Stage (Folger Books), Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 (Princeton), and Shakespeare: The Globe and the World (Oxford). He went on to produce two 3-volume Scribners reference sets on the playwright's world, work, and influence and two annotated editions of the poet's plays (a 19-volume clothbound collection, The Guild Shakespeare, for Doubleday, and a 16-volume paperback sequel, The Everyman Shakespeare, for Orion). His articles have appeared in volumes published by Dell and other imprints, as well as in such periodicals as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. A frequent guest on radio and television programs, Dr. Andrews served for several years (1979-85) as chair of a National Advisory Panel that oversaw the development of educational materials for the BBC/Time-Life Television series "The Shakespeare Plays." He went on to serve as a key advisor for "The Shakespeare Hour," a PBS sequel that aired in the spring of 1986. He has appeared on several NPR shows (All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Sunday Weekend Edition), as well as on PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and CBS's Nightwatch with Charlie Rose. He has been written about or quoted in Time, U.S. News and World Report, the Christian Science Monitor, and a number of other publications. In July of 2000, during a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, he was inducted, as an Honorary Officer, into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. For more detail about Dr. Andrews and his work, visit www.shakesguild.org/Andrews.html, and click on the blue links.
Dr. Andrews is now included in Who's Who in Finance and Business, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the West, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America. He has also been honored with research awards from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Florida State University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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