Andrew Repasky McElhinney

Who is Andrew Repasky McElhinney?

Andrew Repasky McElhinney is an American film producer, writer and director born in Philadelphia in 1978. He grew up in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania and lived in Manhattan in New York City in the late 1990s before returning to his home city in 2000. McElhinney holds advance degrees from The New School for Social Research and The European Graduate School in Switzerland. In 2011, McElhinney successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Second Takes—Remaking America: A Psychoanalytic Reading of English Language Cinema, 1931–1998."

McElhinney is an active theater and film director as well as a scriptwriter specializing in rewrites and dialogue polishes. He is an instructor at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey in the Writing Program and English/Cinema Studies departments. In addition, he is the film programmer who runs Andrew's Video Vault at the Rotunda sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania. He is also a multimedia video installation performance artist and director specializing in Burlesque and Cabaret.