Anne Flanagan

Anne Flanagan's plays include Lineage, Artifice, First Chill, Skirts, Bloody History, and Death, Sex & Elves.

Flanagan's work has been produced and/or developed at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, The Blank Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater LA, Georgetown Theater Co, Hudson Guild, 2Cents Theatre Co., Rogue Machine Theatre, Jennerstown Playhouse, MCT Theater, Dayton Playhouse,Theater Suburbia, Hobo Junction, Theatre InspiraTO, Antaeus Theatre, Ohio Wesleyan University, Waiuku Theater of New Zealand, Grey Wellington Theatre Guild and Crack the Glass among other venues.

Anne has won the BPP/Reva Shiner Comedy Award, the Julie Harris/Janet and Maxwell Salter Playwrights Award, the McLaren Memorial Comedy Award, the Mountain Playhouse Comedy Award and the Playwright's Theater "Plays for the 21st Century" Award among other prizes/honors.

Anne was a Top 12 finalist for Project Greenlight's "The New Normal" competition (2016) and a semi-finalist for the 2015 ARHO Shakespeare's Sister Fellowship. Anne was also a top 10 finalist for the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project (WFP) two years in a row - riiiight before it bit the dust.

Publications include Artifice (Dramatic), Best Women's Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus), Best Contemporary Monologues (Applause), and Monologues From The Heart; Vol. II (JAC.)

Residencies include the Kennedy Center Playwright's Intensive (Gary Garrison; Director), South Hampton Writer's Conference (Stephen Adly Guirgis; Moderator) and the Kenyon College Playwrights Conference (Wendy MacLeod; Artistic Director.)

Anne has worked as an actor, inner city school teacher, private investigator and nude model - none of which were as exciting as one might think. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Theater Communications Group, The Playwright's Center, LAFPI, ICWP, SAG and AAA.