Ann has been involved in theatre most of her life, thanks to the active community theatre scene in her hometown of Akron, Ohio. At Wellesley College she enjoyed playing several leads in the all-female Shakespeare Society. Favorites were Viola and Bottom. After receiving her MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois, she went to NYC to seek her fortune. Realizing there weren’t enough juicy roles for all the talented women there, she decided to create her own.
Ann honed her playwriting skills at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. After producing her one-woman show, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Off-Broadway, she toured with it nationally for 16 years. Other productions (including Becoming Calvin, Washington, D.C.; Beyond Shadowlands, national tour; The Jamestown Adventure Express, Virginia tour) continue her exploration of accepted history, featuring protagonists who upend the status quo.
Ann’s one-acts have been produced as part of How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya? and How’s That Workin’ Out For Ya? 2.0 at the Capital Fringe Festivals, 2018 and 2019, in Washington, D.C.
In 2021 Dallas’ Echo Theatre premiered It’s My Party! celebrating the suffragists who fought for the 19th Amendment,
To read about other plays available for readings or production, click on the links for A Very Present Presence, and The Whole is Greater.
Ann is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, The Playwrights Circle, and is a founding producing playwright of the Northern Virginia-based Pipeline Playwrights, a collective of five women committed to supporting, promoting, and presenting each other’s work, with the goal getting more women’s stories onstage and into the local and national theatre pipeline.
After over two rewarding decades in Arlington, Virginia, is back in NYC, living in Brooklyn with her husband David Biette.
