Anna has a Master of Nonprofit Management from DePaul University where we graduated with highest honors. After completing her BFA in Acting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she moved to Chicago and worked as an actor, singer, playwright, & arts administrator for the last decade.
 
She founded the theatre Brown Paper Box Theatre Co. and served as their Managing Director. Since closing, she founded the nonprofit Chicago Artist Guide to connect theaters, artists, and their communities together. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

Performing Credits

Musicals

Now. Here. This. - Woman 2 (BPBCo.)
[title of show]* - Heidi (BPBCo.)
A New Brain - Waitress/Nancy D. (BPBCo.)
​Reefer Madness! - Mary Lane (BPBCo.)
Hunchback of Notre Dame** - Swing (Bailiwick Rep)
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown! - Sally (La Costa)
Stuck - Alicia (La Costa)
Baby - Swing (Metropolis PAC)
The Who’s Tommy - Ensemble (Jedlicka PAC)

Plays

Circle Mirror Transformation - Lauren (Oil Lamp Theatre)
Aloha Say the Pretty Girls - Joy/Billy (BPBCo.)
​Epic Proportions - Louise (Project 891)
Indecent Proposals - Edelvisa (Metropolis PAC)
Dog Sees God - Marcy (Rubicon Theatre Project)

Cabarets

"Holding On: A Community Cabaret" Performer (BPBCo.)​
"An Existential Cabaret" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Positively Present" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Mary'z with a 'Z'" Performer (BPBCo.)
​​"Spring Forward, Fail Back" Performer (BPBCo.)
"BPB Yearbook" Performer (BPBCo.)
"Proud at Mary's" Performer (BPBCo.)
​​"Character Breakdown" Series Performer (BPBCo.)
"Reefer Madness! 4/20" Productions Performer (BPBCo.)

Production Manager Credits

"The Broad-Way" (BPBCo.) - Host/Director/Performer
​"Brown Paper Bash" (BPBCo.) - Director/Performer
​Speech & Debate (BPBCo.)
The Baltimore Waltz* (BPBCo.)
Spike Heels (BPBCo.)
Godspell (BPBCo.)
To Tree (BPBCo.)

Playwright

Prodigy: A Modern Family Portrait 
September 2024 Staged Reading with Artemisia
May 2019 Staged Reading with Dandelion Theatre
November 2017 Stage Reading co-sponsored by Brown Paper Box Co. & DePaul University's Women and Genders Studies Department
​August 2017 League of Chicago Theatres' Bright Angel Creative Retreat

*Jeff Recommended
**Jeff Award Winning Production