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Anne is an active opera director and assistant director working in the US, UK, and beyond. She was recently an assistant director for the 2024 Summer Season at Opera Neo in San Diego, CA, where her direction of the Studio Artists’ scenes program was praised as being “accomplished with finesse” (San Diego Story). In the UK, she recently directed Handel’s Semele with Richmond Opera, and assistant directed Albert Herring with Royal Academy Opera (dir. Orpha Phelan) and Tosca at Devon Opera (dir. Julia Mintzer). Anne directed Donizetti’s Elixir of Love and Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the University of Cambridge, where she will return to direct their 2025 production.
Anne was a 2022-23 Directing Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she assistant directed the London stage premiere of Dead Man Walking (Heggie) with Martin Lloyd Evans, a double bill of Holst’s Savitri and Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert with Ashley Dean, and the opera studio’s Autumn Opera Scenes program. She completed a Royal Opera House directing observership in 2023 for Antony McDonald’s revival of Hansel and Gretel.
Anne directed the historic U.K. premiere of Mabel Wheeler Daniel’s A Copper Complication (1900) at the Royal Academy of Music, as part of the Opera by American Women Workshop, a project she created to explore and perform some of the first operas written by American women.
Also at the Royal Academy of Music, Anne was the assistant director for the Vocal Faculty Opera Scenes directed by Victoria Newlyn, and was a guest instructor for their Undergraduate Opera Workshop. She has assistant directed at the Berlin Opera Academy under Susan Stone Li (Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi), and at the Halifax Summer Opera Festival in Nova Scotia with Erin Bardua (Handel’s Alcina).
In the US, Anne has assistant directed for Amanda Consol at the Maryland Opera Studio, bringing to life the world premiere of The Four Freedoms as part of their New Work Festival. Also at the University of Maryland, she directed Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) with OperaTerps, the university’s undergraduate opera program. She was the director of the world premiere of The Tomb of Beauty (Steven Crino) at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, though unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic struck midway through the production process. Her interest in directing began in her native Vermont, where for many summers she assistant directed shows with the Very Merry Theater Company, helping to create traveling children’s theater productions that were performed throughout the state.
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