Latest News
ANOTHER WAY HOME will premiere next season at The Magic Theatre, November 7-December 9, 2012. Meredith McDonough directs.
PHOTOGRAPH 51 to play Seattle Rep as part of its 50th Anniversary Season! It will run February 1-March 3, 2013. Braden Abraham directs.
PHOTOGRAPH 51 named one of the Top Ten shows of 2011 by The Washington Post and has been recently published.
Anna has been awarded a Manhattan Theatre Club / Sloan commission to write a new play about the ethics of gender reassignment. Read the announcement!
Anna has been awarded a Tribeca Film Festival / Sloan Grant to adapt her play PHOTOGRAPH 51 into a film. Rachel Weisz, Ari Handel, Audrey Rosenberg and Darren Aronofsky are producers.
Check out the article in Variety.Anna participated in the Tribeca Film Institute's 2011 Sloan Summit and sat on a panel alongside Marc Abraham, Dr. Janna Levin, Dr. Stuart Firestein, and Lisa Robinson, moderated by John Anderson. Here's a clip.
Anna’s play AN INCIDENT (now titled ANOTHER WAY HOME) was selected for inclusion in summer 2011’s O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference.
Anna was one of four playwrights invited to take part in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's FreeWrite program in August 2011.
An excerpt of Anna’s play EVENING ALL AFTERNOON was produced as part of New Georges’ The Germ Project in NYC, which ran in June and July, 2011.
THE MINOTAUR was included in the Araca Group’s spring 2011 reading series, where it was directed by Sarna Lapine.
AN INCIDENT capped off The Berkshire Playwrights Lab summer series with a reading on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 in Great Barrington.
Upcoming
Anna's short play A MAP OF BROKEN GLASS is part of F*IT Club's Spring Fling One-Act Festival, also featuring plays by Anna Kerrigan and Mark Schultz. April 26-May 13, 2012 at IRT. See more here.
Anna's play AN INCIDENT has been selected for inclusion in The McCarter Theatre's Fall Lab Festival. The public reading at 4pm on Sunday November 20 will be directed by Daniella Topol.
Make a reservation.As part of its Downstairs New Works Series, Anna's play A DELICATE SHIP will be workshopped at Arena Stage in Washington DC from December 12-18, 2011 under the direction of David Dower.
PHOTOGRAPH 51 was produced at The Vermont Stage Company in October 2011. It will run at the The Nora Theatre Company in Boston from February 9-March 17, 2012. It will also be produced at the English Theatre of Berlin from February 24-March 10, 2012.
Recent Reviews
"Critic's Pick! What playwright Anna Ziegler has achieved in her intriguing portrait of the British scientist Rosalind Franklin is a remarkable balance of scientific subject matter and theatrical storytelling…in a play that glows with intelligence and humanity…Compelling theater!" -- Backstage
"Among the many virtues of Anna Ziegler's...satisfying "Photograph 51" is the refusal to soften the woman at its center, the British scientist Rosalind Franklin, by making her anything other than formidably, even self-sabotagingly, intelligent...[The play] offers multiple insights into the sad and honorable secrets of one particular life." -- The New York Times
"Bracingly intelligent" -- The Boston Globe
"A powerful new play...Ziegler has produced a witty and poignant account of the controversy surrounding DNA's discovery." -- Nature
“Editor’s Pick!…[A] smartly crafted history play…The reflections that gradually color [Photograph 51] deal with the eternal human mystery of why people act as they do — the very stuff of drama, of course.” -- The Washington Post