Artist Profile
Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51, produced on the West End starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Michael Grandage, won London’s 2016 WhatsOnStage award for Best New Play. It has been produced around the country and the world, most recently in Hamburg, Rome and Stockholm. Her play Boy, which premiered Off-Broadway in a Keen Company/Ensemble Studio Theatre co-production, was nominated for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award and will be produced at TimeLine Theatre in Chicago next season. The Last Match premiered at The Old Globe and was nominated for the 2016 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Outstanding New Play award; it will be produced at Roundabout Theatre Company this fall. Actually was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Manhattan Theatre Club following the Geffen Playhouse production. The Wanderers, commissioned by The Old Globe, will premiere there in 2018. Ziegler is writing a television pilot for AMC/Sundance and a screenplay for Scott Free Productions. Oberon Books has published a collection of her work entitled Anna Ziegler: Plays One. Her other plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Anna Ziegler photo by Marc Brenner.