Anna Ziegler’s plays include: DOV AND ALI (upcoming Playwrights Realm @ The Cherry Lane, May-June 2009, and Theatre 503, London, 2008), BFF (W.E.T., 2007), NOVEL (SPF, 2007), PHOTOGRAPH 51 (upcoming, The Fountain Theatre, March-May 2009; presented as a reading in EST’s 2009 First Light Festival, directed by Lynne Meadow; winner of the 3rd annual STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology, judged by David Auburn, John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire and two Nobel Laureates; originally commissioned and produced by Mary Resing /Active Cultures), LIFE SCIENCE (Bulldog Theatrical, 2007), VARIATIONS ON A THEME (work-shopped July 2008 by Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Ethan McSweeny), THE MINOTAUR (upcoming workshop/reading in the Fire Dept’s Salon Series), IN THE SAME ROOM, TO BE FAIR, and EVERYTHING YOU HAVE.
Ziegler’s plays have been developed by: Manhattan Theatre Club, The Sundance Theatre Lab, The Old Vic New Voices program, Primary Stages, The Geva Theatre Center, The McCarter Theatre, The Playwright’s Center PlayLabs Festival, Ars Nova, Theater J, New Georges (where she is an Affiliated Artist), Clubbed Thumb, The New Harmony Project, 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 was a Dramatist’s Guild Fellow for 2004-2005, a member of the 2005 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and has participated in multiple Lark-sponsored writing groups. BFF was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn award by WET and by Soho Rep and DOV AND ALI has been nominated for the upcoming Susan Smith Blackburn contest by Seattle Rep.

Ziegler’s work has been published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith and Kraus), Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The Best of 2004 (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 many other journals.
For more information, please see www.annabziegler.com