bio

Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. In film, Anna is adapting her play PHOTOGRAPH 51 for Leviathan Productions and Red Yes Studio. In television, Anna is writing the pilot GO, TEAM for Paramount+ and Defiant by Nature. Prior to that, Anna adapted PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld for Apple TV, and her play ACTUALLY for HBO Max. She served as a Consulting Producer for the AMC series INVITATION TO A BONFIRE.

Anna’s critically acclaimed plays have been produced at major theaters around the U.S. and in Australia, Japan, Italy, Germany, India, and Sweden. Her widely produced play PHOTOGRAPH 51 starring Nicole Kidman won London’s WhatsOnStage award for Best New Play. It was selected as a “Best of the Year” play by The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post (twice), and The Telegraph. Anna’s play ACTUALLY received the Ovation Award in Los Angeles for Playwriting of an Original Play. Her play THE WANDERERS, which was recently produced at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, won the San Diego Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. Inspired by a true story, her play, BOY, was nominated for the John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle. 

PHOTOGRAPH 51 has been released as part of Bloomsbury’s Modern Classics series. Bloomsbury/Oberon Books has published a collection of her work entitled Anna Ziegler: Plays One.   Anna Ziegler: Plays Two is now out from Methuen Drama.

Anna is a graduate of Yale and holds masters degrees in poetry from The University of East Anglia (UK) and dramatic writing from NYU.