Ann Marie Healy’s play WHAT ONCE WE FELT is currently a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a recent finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. It will receive its world premiere this spring at About Face Theater in Chicago (directed by Ken Rus Schmoll). Her play THE LEGEND OF MINNIE WILLET was developed at the National Playwrights’ Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) last summer. HAVE YOU SEEN STEVE STEVEN was developed at the Sundance Theater Institute in the summer of 2007 and subsequently produced by 13P, the Obie-award winning collective, directed by Anne Kauffman. (TimeOut NY and FlavorPill picks). THE NIGHT THAT ROGER WENT TO VISIT THE PARENTS OF HIS OLD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND premiered in the 2006 EST Marathon of One-Acts plays (directed by Andrew McCarthy). NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A STORM was the recipient of a development fellowship with MCC Theater (directed by Jo Bonney), and produced by Edge Theater Company in 2004, directed by Carolyn Cantor and featuring Marylouise Burke (TimeOut NY picks). DEAREST EUGENIA HAGGIS was developed at LAByrinth Theater’s 2004 summer intensive and The Cape Cod Theater Project and published in the anthology: Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb.

Ann Marie’s plays are published through Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and The Kenyon Review. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theater company Clubbed Thumb; a member of MCC's Playwrights’ Coalition; a member of 13P, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a former member of EST’s Youngblood and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists.

Ann Marie was awarded a 2006/07 Sloan Commission for her new play exploring the life and work of evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers. She also received a NYSCA commissioning grant for her new play with Clubbed Thumb: THE GENTLEMAN CALLER. She recently completed her MFA with Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar at Brown University.