Andrea Adler + 917-724-1307 (Cell) + andrea@HolisticPR.com
www.HolisticPR.com
www.PushingUpward.om
Andrea started her career as an actress and appeared in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two on Broadway; Uncle Vania, The Good Doctor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (UCLA); Lovers and Other Strangers (Pasadena Dinner Theater). She was a founding member of Café La Mama (L.A.) and the improvisational theater group, The Groundlings (L.A). Adler was a member of New Playwrights (Vanguard Theater (L.A.) and appeared in the TV shows: Police Woman, The Bob Newhart Show, Executive Suite, Steubenville, and Bronx. Adler also taught improv at the Comedy Store (L.A) and to children of celebrities in Las Vegas.
She also co-wrote and directed 3 videos for the American Film Institute.
While a journalist in Monticello, New York, Andrea was profoundly affected by three teen suicides that occurred at a local high school. In response, she wrote a grant and beat out every not-for-profit and school in three counties, and received funding from Senator Cook to create The Off-Off Main Street Theater Company dedicated to works by, for, and about teenagers and the challenges they face. She produced and directed the company successfully for eight years.
She also presented improv workshops to Drug and Alcohol facilities in upstate New York, to GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) an organization that empowers young women who have experienced sexual exploitation and to The Fortune Society, a successful reentry facility offered to men and women who have been incarcerated. These interactive workshops supported the development of a productive, sustainable future for these populations.
She created and directed the theatrical workshop Ignite Your Genius for companies in Silicon Valley and presented her Theater Master Classes to High School students in Thousand Oaks, CA. Her class focused on the combination of scene study and Improv.
Last year Andrea wrote, directed & produced “Old-Fashioned, Naughty, Everything: A Glimpse of Emily Dickinson,” a one-woman show based exclusively on Emily’s poetry and letters, now on tour. It was performed at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco and the Berkeley City Club (now touring).
Adler studied with Stella Adler, Sherman Marks, and Lee Grant at the Actors Studio in NYC.
Andrea’s novel, Pushing Upward won the Los Angeles Book Festival Award and Hay House “Pick of the Month.” She also wrote the screenplay based on her book with Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon, Message in a Bottle, Angel Eyes, Instinct, The Forgotten, etc.,) now being pitched to producers.
Andrea continues to coach actors as well as develop, direct and produce One-Person Shows in Santa Fe, NM.
Andrea has also been proclaimed as the “Metaphysical Marketer.” She pioneered Holistic Marketing in the early ’80s and is the founder of HolisticPR.com. Her workshop The Tao of Marketing has been presented throughout the US, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, London, and South America. Her three books on Holistic Marketing: PR for The Holistic Healer, Creating an Abundant Practice, and The Science of Spiritual Marketing sell worldwide.
Andrea has written over 50 articles on holistic marketing, translated in five languages, and appeared on numerous radio and TV shows. She has supported Internet companies, small businesses, cultural creatives and entrepreneurs in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States. Andrea has been a contributing editor and writer for Body, Mind, Spirit Magazine and has written for Massage Magazine, Living Natural, Massage Today, Akkadian Magazine, Spirituality and Health, Tathaastu, New Connexion, Sentient Times, Kripalu, Reiki International, Marketing Holistico in Mexico City, Vida Alternativa (Venezuela) and UNO MISMO, in Buenos Aires. Both Living Natural and Massage Today featured Andrea on the cover.
Adler was the recipient of the Axiom Business Book Award in 2009, and a Key-Note speaker at The Science and Consciousness Conference, Natural Awakenings Annual Conference, Mountain Biz, The Holistic Medical Assoc., INATS (International New Age Trade Show) and Expo Ser in Mexico City with Deepak Chopra. Andrea also wrote Herbal Life's first audio promotional tape and marketing collateral for Bread for the World, EDF (Environmental Defense Fund), City Harvest, Food for Thought, and Co-op America.
An early adopter, Andrea created Professional Organizers before the organizing boon took off. Starting with organizing people’s offices and closets her company burst onto the NY scene. She then coordinated, supervised and expedited moves in and out of Manhattan, eventually creating satellite offices.
A Broadway actress, director, producer, author, PR maven, and an ardent practitioner of meditation, Andrea continually integrates her writing, theatrical background and her presentations to create transformative artistic endeavors.
Andrea lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
