Training & Experience
- Anna directed Love is the Greater Labyrinth, by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, translated by Diversifying the Classics UCLA, for University of Virginia (2024).
- Anna directed an all-Latina production of Enfrascada by Tanya Saracho at CCNY in Spanish/English (2022).
- 2020-2022 Opera Directing Fellow at Juilliard in the Vocal Arts Department.
- Adjunct faculty at Montclair State University, teaching acting to their opera singers and directing their highly acclaimed winter operas, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi & Michael Ching's Buoso's Ghost at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair University (2023)
- Devised two productions for the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, (dedicating it to the Virgin of Guadalupe, 2022) and Dreamscapes (a visual exploration of music by Arvo Pärt and Cecilia McDowall, 2023).
- Directed 3 operas at the Soo Opera Theater in Sault St Marie Michigan, La Bohème (2022) and Tosca (2023) and Susannah (2024).
- 2022 Prague Summer Nights Festival, directed Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in the historic Estates Theater in Prague, where Mozart himself conducted his first Don Giovanni.
- Attended Columbia’s MFA Directing Program helmed by Anne Bogart, graduating in 2020.
- Anna received her BFA from Yale University in theater performance and was a member of the Yale Dramat. Anna acted professionally on stage and film for 20 years.
