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ANNA ZIEGLER (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY |
Anna Ziegler's plays include: PHOTOGRAPH 51 (Ensemble Studio Theatre, October-November, 2010 directed by Linsay Firman; Fountain Theatre, March-May 2009; EST's 2009 First Light Festival, directed by Lynne Meadow; winner of the 2009 STAGE Competition judged by David Auburn, John Guare and David Lindsay-Abaire; originally commissioned and produced by Active Cultures), DOV AND ALI (Playwrights Realm @ The Cherry Lane, June 2009; Chester Theater, 2009; Theatre 503, London, 2008), LIFE SCIENCE (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, July 2009), VARIATIONS ON A THEME (2008 New Play Workshop at Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Ethan McSweeny; 2010 TheatreWorks' New Work Festival directed by Meredith McDonough), THE MINOTAUR (2009 Fire Dept's Salon Series; McCarter Theatre's Lab Festival 2010), AN INCIDENT (2010 New Play Workshop at Chautauqua Theater Company; workshop at McCarter Theatre, 2010), SUNLIGHT IN A CAFETERIA (produced by Dina Leytes/Gbenga Akinnagbe at the Tank, NYC, May 2010); BFF (W.E.T., 2007), and NOVEL (SPF, 2007). PHOTOGRAPH 51 is upcoming in Washington DC in Theatre J's 2010-2011 season, where it will be directed by Daniella Topol. Working with Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures, Ziegler is also adapting the play into a screenplay. Ziegler's plays have also been developed by: The Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Theatre, The Sundance Theatre Lab, The Old Vic New Voices program, Primary Stages, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Geva Theatre Center, Soho Rep, The Flea, The Playwright's Center PlayLabs Festival, Ars Nova, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, The New Harmony Project, Epic Theatre Ensemble, The hotINK Festival, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, Catalyst Theater, Rorschach Theatre, The Berkshire Playwrights Lab, The Fireraisers Theatre Company at the Hampstead Theatre (London) and The Birmingham Rep, and by Company B at the Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney, Australia). She holds commissions from the Sloan Foundation, New Georges and the Virginia Stage Company. She is the winner of the 2010 Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize, awarded by Tisch, which is given to an alumnus of the dramatic writing program in celebration of her/his work. Ziegler's work has been published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith and Kraus), Best Ten-Minute Plays 2010 and Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The Best of 2004 (both by Smith and Kraus, Inc.) and New American Short Plays 2005 (Backstage Books, ed. Craig Lucas). BFF and LIFE SCIENCE are published by Dramatists Play Service. A graduate of Yale, she holds an MFA from Tisch. Anna Ziegler's poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003, The Threepenny Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Reactions, The Mississippi Review, Arts and Letters, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace, The Saint Ann's Review, and other journals.
Plays by Anna Ziegler
BFF ("Best Friends Forever") | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | WET | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service Inc. (also included in the anthology New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith and Kraus).), 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60774 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This play has been developed at SoHo Rep, the Lark Theatre, and The Sundance Theatre Lab 2005. | |||||
Synopsis: | chronicles the period of adolescence in girls when the tools of growing up are also weapons. In it, Lauren and Eliza, best friends who enter pubescence at different times, become divided socially and psychologically by the changes their bodies undergo (or don't). In the end, Eliza is accused of something she doesn't yet understand and for years to come Lauren holds herself accountable for the act of growing up, an act that became more dangerous than she could have possibly anticipated. | |||||
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Dov and Ali | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84365 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | **** Time Out - Critics Choice , ***** Whats On Stage There are a lot of intelligent things to be said about Anna Ziegler's Dov and Ali, after all, it is a play which faces up to burning issues that are relevant to us all, but there is really only one thing that needs to be said. Go and see it. Ziegler tackles powerful issues with a gentle human perspective. . .Dov and Ali is a powerhouse play that drives its way through an hour and a half of twists and turns about race, individuality, human relations and role models. . .essentially this fearless piece of theatre pulls no punches. There is a resounding truth that pours out of it in all directions, flowing freely from the writing, the set design, the acting, and the directing, and yet Dov and Ali doesn't preach. There are no answers offered, there are no morals proffered, but when theatre is this good, it reminds you how essential it is. See link for full review: http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=124 | |||||
Synopsis: | Once upon a time, in the middle of a school, in the middle of Detroit, in the middle of the United States of America, there was a teacher and a precocious student. One was a religious Jew and the other a religious Muslim. And once upon a time they were friends, sort of. Two men question, push and provoke each other as they struggle to live by the rules they set themselves when faced with heartbreaking consequences. | |||||
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Everything You Have | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60776 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mike, a Chinese immigrant cab driver, and Lars and Lucretia, middle-aged Swedish-Americans, have never met until Mike hits and injures their son. After that, their lives are inextricably bound as Lars and Lucretia take the law into their own hands. A play about love, guilt and loss, "Everything You Have" chronicles the aftermath of an accident, a time when everyone is to blame and no one is, and the punishment becomes less about the crime than about grief itself. | |||||
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First Kiss | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84173 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Germ Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 20 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | New Georges | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129231 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | This show features the work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry). The four "germs" of full-length plays of scope and adventure commissioned by New Georges for this project will be presented together, fully produced, in a cohesive and satisfying ninety-minute intermission-less evening. There will be a connective thread to the pieces that will take place with visuals and storytelling. The Germ Project is a response to the trend in the American theater toward smaller new plays. "I noticed we were reading fewer of the big (in terms of imaginative scope), irreverent, highly theatrical plays we like to produce," says Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges. "And realized it's because there's so much pressure on playwrights these days to write plays that have small casts and simple production elements, plays that are considered produce-able." In response, the company commissioned four long-time affiliated playwrights to write new plays of scope and adventure, their dream plays, what might be considered "unproduce-able" plays. Early in the process, New Georges commissioned four directors to collaborate with the playwrights, to help push their big ideas even bigger, and has spent the 2010-11 season developing the plays in workshop toward this production. "We asked the artists to challenge us as producers," says Bernfield, "and to select for this production the "germ" of their project that includes its most theatrically exciting moments. By producing the most difficult parts, maybe we can prove that these plays aren't "unproduce-able" at all." | |||||
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If | ||
| 1st Produced: | IRT, 154 Christopher Street #3B | 21 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127152 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Spring Fling: 8 Brand New Plays. F*It Club presents a program of eight new short plays: French Toast and Parsley by Brooke Berman, Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter, A Short, Sad Biography of the Magician's Assistant by Ashlin Halfnight, Our Trip to Ohio by Greg Keller, Minotaur Scavenger Huntby Caroline V. McGraw, Come Here by Isaac Oliver, We Have the Music by Mark Schultz, and If by Anna Ziegler. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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In The Same Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New Harmony Project | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70918 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | aka Vinnie | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman grapples with life and love in the age of Internet dating and cross-country relationships | |||||
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Life Science | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio Theatre, NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Bulldog Theatrical | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2259-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85558 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This was a workshop - not a reviewed production or world premiere. This play has been read at the Lark Theatre. aka Leftovers | |||||
Synopsis: | Four wealthy Washington DC teenagers grapple with identity and growing up against the backdrop of a world that's changing quickly, and which they can't quite understand | |||||
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Minotaur, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Page to Stage Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Rorschach Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85695 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The Minotaur was developed at the Lark Play Development Center in 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Minotaur is a loose adaptation of the myth in which Theseus, with the help of Ariadne, kills the Minotaur and steals Ariadne away with him, off Crete, and into an uncertain future. Poetic, quirky and about the vagaries of storytelling, The Minotaur is set in a timeless present where Ariadne dreams of her wedding to Theseus being listed in The New York Times and a chorus consisting of a rabbi, priest and lawyer take on themes of love, loss, our primal selves and forgiveness. | |||||
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Novel | ||
| 1st Produced: | SPF (Summer Play Festival) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60779 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play has been developed at Catalyst Theater and New Georges. Also developed by Theater J, PlayLabs at the Playwright's Center, Clubbed Thumb and The Old Vic. Also: SPF's production was not reviewed or considered a world premiere. | |||||
Synopsis: | When a recently widowed non-fiction writer attends a business conference in Baltimore , he expects to drink bad coffee and to rehash discussions of the inevitable death of small press publishing in America. But when he discovers a conference of unusual world record holders in the same building, his imagination is sparked | |||||
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Photograph 51 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joe's Emporium, Mount Ranier, Maryland | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Active Cultures Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2508-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81048 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | also produced Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC (2010). Review Excerpts: "Critic's Pick! What playwright Anna Ziegler has achieved in her intriguing portrait of the British scientist Rosalind Franklin is a remarkable balance of scientific subject matter and theatrical storytelling. Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA's double helix-the only woman among a raft of male scientists-is here made clear in a play that glows with intelligence and humanity. This is a complex story filled with complex characters that Ziegler tells with clarity and economy. It's a pleasure to be in the presence of such assured writing. She gives full weight to Franklin's achievement without allowing the play to become a feminist tract or turning Franklin's thieving male cohorts and competitors into dyed-in-the-wool villains. This tale of a lone, wondrous woman amidst a casual conspiracy of men makes for compelling theater." - Backstage. "Among the many virtues of Anna Ziegler's. . .satisfying "Photograph 51" is the refusal to soften the woman at its center, the British scientist Rosalind Franklin, by making her anything other than formidably, even self-sabotagingly, intelligent. . .[The play] offers multiple insights into the sad and honorable secrets of one particular life." - NY Times. "A powerful new play. . .Ziegler has produced a witty and poignant account of the controversy surrounding DNA's discovery." - Nature. "Who knew science could make for such terrific theatre?" -New Scientist | |||||
Synopsis: | DNA. The combination of those three letters conjures up tales of science, double helixes, and countless CSI episodes. The intriguing story of Photograph 51 is its exploration of how relationships may have played a role in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA. Now, of course, that infamous double helix is so well-known, even a caveman, well, never mind. Suffice it to say that understanding the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was tantamount to unlocking the secret of life. This taut little thriller highlights a scientist whose meticulous research formed the basis of the discovery, but who was essentially ignored and forgotten amidst the international recognition and awards, including the coveted Nobel Prize. Every once and awhile, one hears that a woman scientist was involved, whose work and ideas were usurped, packaged, and submitted by the infamous duo Watson and Crick as totally their own. Photograph 51 bares all by showing what happened among the dedicated scientists, inadvertently or otherwise, in the quest for knowledge, answers, and meaning. The rather cryptic and strange title refers to the 51st x-ray photo that Rosalind Franklin took as part of her meticulous research. It was apparently this particular shot that shed enough light on the subject to explain the inexplicable formation, helped the scientists grasp the molecular formation enough to make a model, and gave birth to the rock stars of genetic discovery. Who was this hard working woman behind the scenes? Why didn't she get the credit that she deserved? What's the big deal of the helix? Why does it matter? Well, just that it sheds light on the molecular structure of all living matter on the planet. That's all. Photograph 51 adds to the intrigue by zeroing in on the characters, showing their intentions, complex motivations, and regrets. | |||||
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Ron Swoboda's Wish | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays, Smith & Kraus (September 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257723 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121838 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Sad Song | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80787 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Sunlight in a Cafeteria | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | The Tank | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114497 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Under the Influence | |||||
Synopsis: | imagines the two subjects of an Edward Hopper painting come to life, fully aware that they are in a work of art. Followed by a conversation about art, authority, inspiration and appropriation. | |||||
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To Be Fair | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60775 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This play has been developed at the Lark Theatre, at The Tank Theater, by the Fireraisers Theatre Company at the Hampstead Theatre (London ) and The Birmingham Rep, and by Company B at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, Australia | |||||
Synopsis: | On board a cruise liner, Mike and Jim, both teenagers, are befriended by Laurel, a mysterious middle-aged woman, who, before disappearing, teaches them about friendship and memory | |||||
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Variations on a Theme | ||
| 1st Produced: | TheatreWorks' Festival of New Works, Palo Alto | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85696 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Staged readings directed by Ethan McSweeny for Chautauqua Theatre Company, July 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joshua and April marry young, and before too long, their marriage crumbles. N and K are middle-aged, and real or not real. They lead and counsel April and Joshua and in so doing, discover themselves, and the nagging insistence of lost love. Variations on a Theme explores through memory and fantasy how little we know each other, how easy it is to lose someone, and the way we cling to love even though it is the very thing that often brings so much sadness. | |||||
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