Anna Ziegler (author)

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Anna B. Ziegler (* 1979 in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American playwright .

She studied English, creative and scenic writing at Yale , East Anglia and New York Universities .

Her piece Photo 51 about Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of the structure of DNA was performed in the West End of London in 2015, starring Nicole Kidman , and received several awards. The German-language premiere took place in 2017 at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg with Isabella Vértes-Schütter as Rosalind Franklin.

In other pieces, Ziegler took up prominent social issues and picked up on current debates. In Actually (2017), for example, she dealt with the subject of consent in the context of allegations of sexual offenses at US colleges (see the debates on Mattress Performance and A Rape on Campus ) and in The Wanderers (2020) she describes a young arranged marriage in the Satmar -Community (see Unorthodox (mini-series) ).

Pieces

  • BFF (2007)
  • Dov and Ali (2008)
  • Photo 51 (2008)
  • Another Way Home (2011)
  • Boy (2015)
  • A Delicate Ship (2015)
  • Actually (2017)
  • The Minotaur (2018)
  • The Great Moment (2019)
  • The Wanderers (2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Scientist Gets Her Due in 'Photograph 51". In: NPR. November 5, 2010, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Evening Standard Theater Awards 2015: Nicole Kidman and James McAvoy win best in show. In: Evening Standard. November 22, 2015, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Benedict Cumberbatch and Nicole Kidman take home WhatsOnStage Awards. In: WhatsOnStage. February 21, 2016, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Fate of a brilliant woman. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Actually is a gripping drama about consent with an accuser who is Jewish and an accused who is black. In: The Globe and Mail. September 22, 2019, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b The Wanderers. In: Theater J. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS. In: The New Yorker. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Theater review: Dov and Ali at Theater 503. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Review: 'Another Way Home' at San Francisco's Magic Theater. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Keen Company to Present a World Premiere Kilroy Play. In: American Theater. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Review: 'A Delicate Ship' Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak. August 28, 2015, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  12. ^ Anna Ziegler: The minotaur . Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York, NY 2018, ISBN 0822238233 , OCLC 1053611329 .
  13. ↑ The Great Moment. In: Seattle Rep. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler, Anna B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn