Anna Ziegler’s plays include: DOV AND ALI (Playwrights Realm @ The Cherry Lane, June 2009; Chester Theater, 2009; Theatre 503, London, 2008), PHOTOGRAPH 51 (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 Mary Resing /Active Cultures), LIFE SCIENCE (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, July 2009), VARIATIONS ON A THEME (New Play Workshop at Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Ethan McSweeny), THE MINOTAUR (Fire Dept’s Salon Series; McCarter Theatre’s Lab Festival 2010), AN INCIDENT (upcoming workshops at Chautauqua Theater Company and McCarter Theatre, summer 2010), SUNLIGHT IN A CAFETERIA (produced by Dina Leytes/Gbenga Akinnagbe as part of “Under the Influence” at the Tank, NYC, May 2010); BFF (W.E.T., 2007), and NOVEL (SPF, 2007).

PHOTOGRAPH 51 is upcoming in Washington DC and New York City in Theater J’s and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 2010-2011 seasons.

Ziegler’s plays have also been developed by: The Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Theatre, The Sundance Theatre Lab, The McCarter Theatre, 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 (where she is an Affiliated Artist), 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 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.

She is represented by Chris Till at CAA.