Ann is a director and choreographer with a passion for new work. Originally from San Jose, California, she fell in love with Chicago at first sight in 1993 and never left.
Since then, she has directed over 40 productions in Chicago, half of those being world premieres, at such theatres as Red Orchid, Shattered Globe, Live Bait, Stage Left, Porchlight, Prop Thtr, The Aardvark, and Emerald City. She also has directed for Northwestern, DePaul, UIC, Circle Theatre in Forest Park, William Inge Theatre Festival in Kansas, and 29th Street Rep in New York.
She was the 2004-05 recipient of the Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship at the Goodman Theatre where she directed David Mamet’s Almost Done, Reunion, and Dark Pony. In 2001 she received an After Dark Award for her direction of John Green’s The Liquid Moon at Chicago Dramatists.
Ann was the Associate Artistic Director of Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe for three years and served on the board of the League of Chicago Theatres. While Producing Director of Chicago Dramatists from 2000-2004, Ann co-produced the National Showcase of New Plays 2004. She is the editor of “New Plays from Chicago” Chicago’s first-ever anthology of new plays and the creator and Artistic Director of Chicago’s Estrogen Fest.
Ann has shared the stage with Tom Wopat, Jennifer Garner and a cactus. Ann has recently made her home in Berwyn with her husband, musician/composer, Barry Bennett and their daughter Hannah. She is very happy to be here. |
