Biography

Anne Fizzard Actor, Cartoonist for The New Yorker, Writer

Anne has spent many years working in New York's Off-Off-Broadway world as an actor, playwright, producer, and administrator. She is an emerita member of the Drama Desk-nominated WorkShop Theater Company, and a frequent participant in play readings at the Actors Studio. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, Anne has a BA (Honors) in English from Mount Allison University, and did summer school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NY). Subsequent highlights: studied acting with Alfred Molina, Austin Pendleton and Laura Esterman, interned at Ensemble Studio Theater, and played Linda Tripp in Verbatim Verboten (opposite Olympia Dukakis as Monica Lewinsky). Anne is also a cartoonist/illustrator, and her cartoons have appeared in the print edition of The New Yorker and on newyorker.com. During the COVID shutdown, she created the comedy web series Marigold & Martha, in which she plays identical twins stuck together in quarantine (www.marigoldandmartha.com); it has been made an official selection of four film festivals so far.

Member, AEA / SAG-AFTRA / ACTRA, IFP
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