Training & Experience

  • As a Spanish speaking Latina, Anna has directed Love is the Greater Labyrinth, by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz,  (2024), for University of Virginia's main stage show, and an all-Latina production of Enfrascada by Tanya Saracho at CCNY in Spanish/English (2022).
  • 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). ​
  • As a Spanish speaking Latina, Anna has directed Love is the Greater Labyrinth, by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz,  (2024), 
  • 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.
  • In 2021 Anna was awarded the fellowship again, and elevated to assistant faculty status, helping teach acting to the most advanced singers in the Artist Diploma program. ​
  • In 2020 Anna was awarded the singular Directing Fellowship in the Vocal Arts department at Juilliard, studying opera with Stephen Wadsworth and Mary Birnbaum.
  • 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.
Testimonial from Joseph Parrish, Juilliard Baritone:
“Anna, I have been so lucky to work with you and really get to know you through that. You always have great things to say, directionally, and are just a lovely person in general. You’ve been here to track my growth consistently and have truly played a part in helping me develop. Appreciate you so much!”