TAKE MY HEART

Award winning writer/director, Anna received a 2021 Daytime Emmy® Nomination for her latest film, "Take My Heart", in the Outstanding Daytime Fiction Program. The drama has been a favorite at Oscar and BAFTA qualifying Film Festivals and will be woven into a TV pilot, The Other Day, a series of LA stories.
"Take My Heart" premiered live at The Chinese Theatres, Hollywood, at The Micheaux Film Festival in April 2021. Anna is a dual American/Irish-Australian citizen. She's written/starred in, also written/directed films which screened at Academy Qualifying Festivals such as Raindance, Flickers' Rhode Island, LA Shorts International Film Festival, The Micheaux Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival and others. Her directorial debut film, "The Aerial Girl", garnered six awards and four nominations; screened at 40 Film Festivals worldwide and aired on PBS. Anna is now attached to direct two feature films: Salt Creek, a western, set in Wyoming and the European drama, "Summer Wine". Theatre trained in London and Sydney, Anna's first acting roles were on Television and Film in Australia where she worked with legendary actors and esteemed directors. This was followed by lead roles on stage throughout Britain as well as in NY and LA along with film and TV roles. She is the recipient of the Platinum Award, First Place, at the BAFTA Los Angeles Members' Short Film Festival for her film, "Chasing Chekhov" which was based on her play. Anna is penning two of her own features to direct: Art of Deceit , a European story or art and deceit, and an adaptation of her play, "Super Nova". The play was developed by The Directors Company, a Broadway Theatre Company in New York. In London her first job was with the Young Peoples Playwright's Program at The Royal Court Theatre. Favorite roles in British Repertory Theatre include Sarah in The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn and many classics as well as new plays in London at theaters such as The ICA and The Roundhouse. In New York Anna studied with venerable teachers, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis. She subsequently played lead roles in Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows; such as Elizabeth in The Crucible with The Ensemble Company at the Roundabout Theatre. Anna attended workshops at The Actor's Studio in Los Angeles, studying with Martin Landau and Shelly Winters for several years. Her theatre credits in LA include the Theatre East and Complex Theatre productions of her play, Chasing Chekhov; Lost in the Movies, at The Court theatre; and Anon by Kate Robin (Writer: Six feet Under) with The Echo Theatre Company. Anna's other award winning films include: Coming Into Money and The Red Scarf. The films were produced by her film company VisionFire Films Inc; which she operates with her partner: producer/director Peter Sands. Their combined films have screened at over seventy film festivals worldwide and sold to Television. VisionFire Films has several projects in development including Art of Deceit; SuperNova, Of Corsica, and the TV pilot concept: The Other Day (Elo Otro Dia) Memberships: BAFTA; SAG-AFTRA, AEA; The Dramatists Guild of America, Women in Media; TheatreMakers Studio.