A longtime collaborator of composer Dave Malloy, recent theater credits include the world premiere of OCTET at Signature Theatre Company, for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Direction and was named an SDC Callaway Award Finalist. She also directed the world premiere of Malloy's THREE HOUSES, and the world premiere and subsequent tours of the award-winning GHOST QUARTET.

Other theater credits include Laura Benanti’s NOBODY CARES (Audible/Minetta Lane), Britta Johnson’s LIFE AFTER (Goodman Theatre), the premiere of Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillips’ COWBOY BOB (Alley Theatre), the premiere of Julia May Jonas’ YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXEGESIS (LCT3), the premiere of Leslye Headland's CULT OF LOVE (IAMA Theatre Company), the west coast premiere of POTUS (Berkeley Rep), Bess Wohl's CONTINUITY (Goodman Theatre), THE HOMBRES (Two River), I HEARD SEX NOISES (Ars Nova) and two of the last pieces by James + Jerome: INK (co-directed with Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar/Met Museum) and THE CONVERSATIONALISTS (Bushwick Starr).

Annie’s short film HELP ME MARY marks her debut as a writer/director for the screen. The piece was selected for the LOWER EAST SIDE FILM FESTIVAL, for which it won the “Best Narrative Short Award”. It has also played at PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST, HOLLY SHORTS, SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL and the MONMOUTH FILM FESTIVAL. Her next short, EGG TIMER, written by Ryann Weir and Claire Rothrock, will be completed September 2023.

Annie served as the associate director for PRESENT LAUGHTER on Broadway (dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel). She was the Associate Director for The TEAM'S touring productions of MISSION DRIFT and RoosevElvis (dir. Rachel Chavkin) and Gabriel Kahane's THE AMBASSADOR (BAM; dir. John Tiffany).

With Dave Malloy, she taught a undergraduate course called A BLANK PAGE: Creativity, Collaboration, and Adaptation for Princeton University. She frequently mentors directing students at the Playwrights Horizons program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

She is a former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, and alumna of the Williamstown Directing Corps.

Read the NYTimes feature on Annie and Dave Malloy.

About the Signature Theatre world premiere production of OCTET in 2019.

Article by Alexis Solowski here.

Watch “Behind the scenes of OCTET.”

Annie and Dave talk about the West Coast premiere of OCTET at Berkeley Rep in 2022.