Screenplays, Stages, & Scribblings
About Me
Andrew Van Wilpe is an Arkansas-born actor and writer working internationally. His writing spans dark comedy, dramedy, and character-driven genre pieces. Current projects include the stage play Lincoln Tunnel, the half-hour series The Industry Shorts, and several TV and film projects in development, including Raising Each Other, Just a Piece of Meat, and Empty Estates. As a queer storyteller, he focuses on emotionally honest work centered on people rebuilding, revealing, and redefining themselves.
Select Works
Lincoln Tunnel - Stage Play
90 min · Dramedy
Written by Andrew Van Wilpe & Brian Stewart
Logling: When a painter adrift in London falls for his aristocratic landlord, the collision of love, lineage, and one disastrous DNA test transforms his flat into a crime scene of class, revelation, and family secrets.
Currently preparing for our first full staging.
The Industry Shorts — TV Series
Half-hour · Comedy
Created by Maya Kvetny · Written by Andrew Van Wilpe & Sinead Phelps
Currently in the pitching process.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Raising Each Other — TV Series
One-hour · Dramedy
Created by Andrew Van Wilpe & Haley Montowski
Written by Andrew VanWilpe
Logline: Far from home and even farther from who they thought they’d be, two American 20-somethings stumble through love, loss, and life abroad, learning that sometimes falling apart together is the only way to grow up.
Just a Piece of Meat — TV Series
Feature Film · Dark Comedy
Written & Created by Andrew Van Wilpe
Logline: When a broke small-town journalist uncovers a string of murders tied to a man-eating death cult, she and her erratic activist brother are pulled into a Southern gothic revenge story about justice and trauma.
Tagline: Because in a world that devours women, maybe it’s time women devour back.
Empty Estates — TV Series
Half-hour · Dark Comedy / Queer Drama
Created by Andrew Van Wilpe
Written by Andrew Van Wilpe & Brian Stewart
Logline: When a failing architect takes a job cleaning out Berlin’s forgotten estates, he and his guarded roommate begin unearthing not just the secrets of the dead but the truths they’ve been avoiding in themselves.