Anna Ziegler (playwright)
{{short description|American playwright}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Anna Ziegler
| birth_date = 1979
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States
| education = Yale University
University of East Anglia
New York University
| occupation = Poet, playwright
}}
Anna Ziegler is an American playwright.
She was educated at Saint Ann's School, studied English at Yale University, earned an MA in poetry from the University of East Anglia in 2002, and graduated with an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University in 2004.{{cite news|last1=Soloski|first1=Alexis|title=From Nicole Kidman to 'A Delicate Ship,' a Big Season for the Playwright Anna Ziegler|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/theater/from-nicole-kidman-to-a-delicate-ship-a-big-season-for-the-playwright-anna-ziegler.html?pagewanted=all|work=New York Times|date=21 August 2015|access-date=26 August 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Engebrecht|first1=Julie|title='Delicate Ship' playwright has heart of a poet|url=http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/03/30/delicate-ship-playwright-heart-poet/7019591/|website=Cincinnati Enquirer |publisher=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date= 30 March 2014| access-date=27 August 2015}}
In 2015, Ziegler's play Photograph 51, about the part played by Rosalind Franklin in the discovery of the structure of DNA, was staged in London's West End, with Nicole Kidman in the role of Franklin.{{cite news |last= Billington |first= Michael |title= Photograph 51 review – Nicole Kidman captures the ecstasy of scientific discovery |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/sep/14/nicole-kidman-photograph-51-noel-coward-theatre-rosalind-franklin-review| date= 14 September 2015 |newspaper= The Guardian |location=London| access-date= 24 September 2015 }} Kidman won The Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2015-nicole-kidman-and-james-mcavoy-named-best-in-show-a3119886.html|title=Evening Standard article|date=23 November 2015}}
In The New York Times, in 2015, Ziegler was described as "newly (and justly) hot" and her writing as "lyrical...[with] a luminous beauty."{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/theater/review-a-delicate-ship-plumbs-the-what-ifs-of-love-and-heartbreak.html|title=Review: 'A Delicate Ship' Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|date=28 August 2015|website=www.nytimes.com}}
Plays
- BFF (2007){{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/19/1375901|title=Openings and Previews|magazine=The New Yorker|date=11 March 2007|access-date=2015-10-07}}
- Life Science (2007)
- Photograph 51 (2008){{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131099071|title=Scientist Gets Her Due in 'Photograph 51'|last1=Flatow|first1=Ira|date=5 November 2010|website=NPR|publisher=National Public Radio|access-date=27 August 2015}} – winner 2016 WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play
- Dov and Ali (2008) – productions at The Playwrights Realm in New York, 2009{{Cite news |last=Jaworowski |first=Ken |date=2009-06-13 |title=A Jew and a Muslim, Firing Words After School |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/theater/reviews/13dov.html |access-date=2022-08-30 |issn=0362-4331}} and Theatre 503 in London, 2008{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/dova-rev|title=Theatre review: Dov and Ali at Theatre 503|website=www.britishtheatreguide.info|access-date=2015-10-07}}
- Another Way Home (2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21994893/review-another-way-home-at-san-franciscos-magic|title=Review: 'Another Way Home' at San Francisco's Magic Theatre|date=14 November 2012|access-date=2015-10-07}}
- Boy (2015){{Cite web|url=http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/08/06/keen-company-to-present-a-world-premiere-kilroy-play/|title=Keen Company to Present a World-Premiere Kilroy Play|last=|first=|website=American Theatre|date=6 August 2015|access-date=2015-10-07}}—nominee for 2016 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner award
- A Delicate Ship (2015) – premiere at The Playwrights Realm{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/theater/review-a-delicate-ship-plumbs-the-what-ifs-of-love-and-heartbreak.html|title=Review: 'A Delicate Ship' Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|date=2015-08-28|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2015-10-07|issn=0362-4331}}
- The Last Match (2015){{Cite web|url=http://www.theoldglobe.org/pressphotos/The_Last_Match.html|title=The Last Match Press Page|website=www.theoldglobe.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927064531/http://www.theoldglobe.org/pressphotos/The_Last_Match.html|archive-date=2015-09-27|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-10-07}} – production at Roundabout Theatre Company, Fall 2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/The-Last-Match.aspx?gclid=CjwKEAjwtbPGBRDhoLaqn6HknWsSJABR-o5scEUZZztZ4GPWVptudIL96pzqZy6J-fjSdiMckwUjdBoCPxfw_wcB|title=Roundabout Website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319195545/http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/The-Last-Match.aspx?gclid=CjwKEAjwtbPGBRDhoLaqn6HknWsSJABR-o5scEUZZztZ4GPWVptudIL96pzqZy6J-fjSdiMckwUjdBoCPxfw_wcB|archive-date=2017-03-19|url-status=dead}}
- Actually (2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/anna-zieglers-consent-themed-drama-added-to-geffen-season|title=Playbill article|date=10 August 2016}} – co world-premiere productions at the Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Manhattan Theatre Club, 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/theater/manhattan-theater-club-announces-two-new-plays-by-women.html|title=Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Two New Plays by Women|last=Shea|first=Christopher|date=23 March 2017|website=www.nytimes.com}}
- The Minotaur (2018){{Cite book|title=The minotaur|last=Ziegler|first=Anna|publisher=Dramatists Play Service Inc.|year=2018|isbn=978-0822238232|location=New York, NY|oclc=1053611329}}
- The Great Moment (2019) – premiere at Seattle Repertory Theatre[https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/1920/the-great-moment/ The Great Moment – Seattle Rep]
- The Wanderers (2020) {{Cite web|url=https://theaterj.org/on-stage/the-wanderers/|title=The Wanderers – Theater J|access-date=2020-01-09|archive-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411093628/https://theaterj.org/on-stage/the-wanderers/|url-status=dead}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women dramatists and playwrights