Anna Ziegler

Playwright

Anna Ziegler’s plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Magic Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Theater J, DR2 (W.E.T.), Cherry Lane Theatre (Playwrights Realm), Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Summer Play Festival (SPF), The Fountain Theatre, English Theatre of Berlin, Theatre503 (UK), Synchronicity Theatre, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Vermont Stage Company, among others. She has received commissions from The Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company and New Georges. Awards include the STAGE Award, Weissberger Award (finalist), Edgerton New Play Prize, Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize and NYIT Award nomination for Best Short Play (2011, 2012). She has participated in residencies and workshops at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Arena Stage, PlayLabs (Playwrights Center), Chautauqua Theater Company, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, Lark Playwrights Workshop, McCarter Playwrights Retreat, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Araca Group, Old Vic New Voices, terraNOVA Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, Orchard Project, Ars Nova, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Primary Stages, Geva Theatre Center, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival and The New Group. Publications include New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 and DPS editions of BFF, Life Science and Photograph 51. Film credits include a screenplay adaptation of Photograph 51 funded by a Tribeca Film Institute/Sloan Foundation grant. Ms. Ziegler has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

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Women and Science

Saturday, April 26, 2014
2:30-4:30 pm

Past Event

An ancient Egyptian hieroglyph at Saqqara declared Merit-Ptah as “the Chief Physician.” 4700 years after her achievement, we ask: How are women in science faring? It is a well-documented phenomenon that for all STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects, the gender gap widens in the progression from undergraduate study, through graduate and post-doctoral work,… read more »