Sostrin Client Spotlight - Andrew Wade

Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Wade.

For Sostrin client Andrew Wade, “the Globe” is his stage.  Growing up on a farm in rural Lincolnshire on the East coast of England, his career in the performing arts was inspired at the age of nine by a teacher who opened his eyes and ears to Shakespeare’s words and language.
 
Mr. Wade’s immigration story began over thirty-five years ago when he came to the Unites States for the first time to work on a production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1897 classic play You Never Can Tell.  This experience awakened him, and he realized working in the performing arts is what he wanted to do professionally.
 
After this production, Andrew returned to England and became immersed in an exciting twenty-year career in voice work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the world’s preeminent theater company for Shakespeare plays.  Within the RSC, he directed voice at their flagship theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.  He worked at RCS’s theaters in London on over three hundred plays and toured with them around the world.  During this time, Andrew also served as the vocal coach on the seven-time Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love.
 
When he left the RSC, Mr. Wade was invited to work at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.  The oldest regional professional theater in America, the Guthrie’s mission is to produce great works of dramatic art and literature, as well as provide opportunities for new playwrights to have a voice in American theater.
 
“Joe Dowling at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis gave me an artistic home,” Andrew says. “Because of that, I was introduced to Rita, who took wonderful care of me during the many visas and green card, and now through my being a citizen of the USA, has made me grateful beyond words.”
 
Today, Mr. Wade works on Broadway shows and is Director of Voice at New York’s Public Theater and its annual Shakespeare in the Park summer series.  He is a faculty member at The Juilliard School’s Drama Division.  He is also Resident Director of Voice at New York’s Theater for a New Audience, and Master Teacher of Voice and Shakespeare, in NYC’s Stella Adler Studio. Further, he has taught at the Guthrie Theater, and its BFA program in conjunction with the University of Minnesota.
 
“Living and working in a country that I wasn't born into has been an exciting experience,” he says. 
 
Back in England, Andrew was named a Fellow at his alma-mater, Rose Bruford College. He continues to coach voice, teach master classes, and give lectures around the globe.
 
Sostrin Immigration Lawyers is honored to have worked with such a distinguished vocal coach and wish him only the best success.