Award-winning screenwriter, produced playwright, live theater professional, glitter enthusiast, breast cancer survivor. andreaberting.com

Thank you for the shoutout, @BogeyGuyC! I always love these screenwriter celebration threads!

give me support and help me survive being alive Knicks in five

There's a very silly game on Reddit where someone is eliminating CTA train stations one by one via a digital spinning wheel, and I know it doesn't REALLY matter but also my train stop just made the final three fuck yeahhhhhhh

Tech week girl dinner at 11:30pm (That is a block of cheese not straight butter i swear)

I'm getting lots of reassurance lately that the stories I like to write are relevant and important and honestly it feels really good

We're due to have bad rainstorms in Chicago for what feels like the foreseeable future, and I just sat through maybe the biggest, loudest, craziest, longest crash of thunder I've ever experienced in my life - like I was worried maybe something was exploding somewhere??

I always tell myself “okay but during THIS tech week I won’t eat a full meal when I get home at midnight” but then I remember that my dinner break is at 5pm and I work until 11pm 🫠

Bringing my best “fun boss” energy to this new-work-musical tech week 🫠

I am so beyond thrilled to announce that my ten minute play LITTLE KASIA MEETS THE GOD OF DEATH has been acquired by Tiny Scripted for distribution!!

Not gonna lie, seeing my former coworker win a TONY AWARD has me feeling the pressure to turn out an excellent script to try to attach him to 🤣 In all fairness most of my screenplays are For The Girls but I suppose I should try to make the male characters intriguing as well lol

There’s a large group of teenage boys on the bus with me who are planning to go play “Ding Dong Ditch” and as annoying as that is I’m glad the youths haven’t abandoned the classics

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this "This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised." —Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

Screaming crying throwing up that this man is now a TONY AWARD WINNER OMG

How I sleep after getting told I’ll be “left behind” if I don’t use AI

I’m going to Los Angeles next month to see a staged reading of my play Red Devil!!! I will be there for roughly 36 hours but would still love to try to see internet screenwriting friends 💜

I don’t have many close friends who are parents, but I gotta say there’s nothing like spending time with a friend who has a 5 month old baby and hearing about her birth story to make me go home and immediately thank my dog for being a dog and not a human child

My husband is apparently of the belief that Mulder and Scully experienced 0 (zero) onscreen sexual tension until The X-Files Movie (Fight the Future) in 1998. PROVE HIM WRONG

A few years ago a friend introduced me to the “Whatever Gimlet”, which is 1.5oz any liquor, 1oz any citrus, and 0.5oz any sweet liqueur or syrup Anyway, it’s time to name that cocktail: Tequila, lemon juice, and peach schnapps (Or is this just a classic “Whatever Gimlet”?)

Learned tonight that, while I have pretty frequent “back to school” stress dreams, my husband usually has train-related stress dreams. Not sure what that says about either of us

Tonight my dog barked at me because I got too excited to show my husband something on the computer and raised my voice a little, so you might say she’s getting ever so slightly cranky in her old age