Abridged cv
Andrew McGregor has an eclectic background in the not-for-profit and social enterprise worlds drawing from his expertise as a filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion, entrepreneur, frequent TEDx speaker, mentor, Highlands games athlete, photojournalist, Curator of MindshareLA, and a founder of The Tiziano Project. He was named one of ‘LA’s 40 Most Interesting People’ by LA Weekly, was part of a team that won the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism, won the ‘Foreigner’ division of an Independence Day Chess Tournament in Kazakhstan, he was featured in the Sports Section of the ‘NY Times’, and he has even received a Certificate of Appreciation from LA’s City Council!
CONTACT: Ahoy@MightyKingDrew.com
Notable Speeches
TEDxUSC
TEDxCulverCity
TEDxOrlando
TEDxSantaMonica
Humanitarian technology Project
Companies and Organizations Founded or Co-Founded
Oomvelt
The Tiziano Project
LA Chessboxing Club
SymbioBotics
TEDxPacificPalisades
GoodBar
Graphation Film Festival and Comics
awards and accolades
Named one of LA Weekly’s ’40 Most Interesting People'
Featured in the Sports Section of the NY Times
Part of team that won SXSW Interactive award for activism
Part of team that won Best Medical and Healthcare VR Experience, Runner-up Best HTC Vive Experience, and was a Grand Prize Finalist for VR for StrokeRehabVR as part of the Creating Reality Hackathon
Won ‘Foreigner Division’ of national chess tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan
robotics work
Assisted on a revamp of a robotic squirrel that notifies real squirrels if a predator is near for artist and roboticist Ian Ingram's 'Next Animals' exhibition at the Nikolaj Kunstal in Copenhagen.
Assisted on the creation of Two Bit Circus' Bartendro Robot under Chris Weisbart.
Partner on a research project to enable the APOPO Hero Rats to bionically communicate to a human when they find a landmine.
Created interactive sculpture titled 'Deckard's Dream' that debuted at The Hive Gallery in LA December 2017.
art curation
Curated the Robots and Unicorns show at The Hive Gallery and Studios in LA, December 9th-30th 2017
A member of the Mayi-Mayi armed group PARECO receives treatment for a gunshot wound at a clinic in Masisi, October 10th 2017. REUTERS/Andrew McGregor (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Multimedia Journalism:
Film Festivals
Judge and Advisory Board member for the Social Impact Media Awards
Former Judge and occasional co-host for the Robot Film Festival
Fictional Writing/Directing
Under management contract with ScenarioLA
Playing with Dolls (short film from 2010. Running time 08:53)
A young man and woman play with each others lives through the dolls that are the Sims. Starring Daniel Franzese and Dana May Salah. Written and Directed by Andrew McGregor.
Where the Robot Things Are is a love story between a rat and a robot sent on a quest to guide humans out of a landmine field.
This film is slated for a festival run in 2018
Education
2017 Completed Introduction to Synthetic Biology course, The Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2009 MA for screenplay writing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2007 AKE Surviving Hostile Regions Course, Banning Mills, GA
2005 Intensive Japanese acquisition, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Charles University, Intensive Czech language acquisition
2002 BA, Philosophy with a Minor in Italian, Connecticut College, New London, CT