Andrea Kleine is an American writer, director, and performance artist. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, Calf (2015) and Eden (2018), a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award. She is a five-time MacDowell fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her performance works have been presented extensively in New York City. She has been described as an "enigmatic and eccentric" (The New York Times), "brainy, allusive Downtown artist" (The Village Voice), whose work is "wry, poignant" (The New York Times) and "something like genius" (ArtVoice). The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be, premiering at Ji.hlava, is her first feature-length film.