Bio

Ann has been a long-time member of two acting companies in Los Angeles: Theatre 40 (since 1980) and The Road Theatre Company (since 2015).  Primarily an actor, she started directing in 2004 with Sally Nemeth’s beautiful play Holy Days, and dancing between raising a family (2 scientist sons) and acting, she steadily developed a following as a director and all around theatre enthusiast.

photo of Abigail Stewart & Stephanie Erb in "The Half-Light"
Abigail Stewart & Stephanie Erb in “The Half-Light”

Directing projects for Theatre 40:  Beatnik Girl, The Half-Light, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Silent Sky, Good People, As Good As Gold, Bus Stop, Holy Days, Driving Miss Daisy, and Another Part of the Forest.

Directing projects for The Road Theatre Company — Three plays by Steve Yockey: Sleeping Giant (2025), Mercury (2024), and Reykjavík (2021).  Reykjavík was a filmed live play production, honored with laurels at several international film festivals (Sweden, Paris and Buenos Aires).  Also at The Road, Scintilla, Through the Eye of a Needle and roughly twenty readings for The Road’s Word series, Under Construction series and their Summer Playwrights Festival.

Plays directed elsewhere in Los Angeles include world premieres of The Civil Twilight by Shem Bitterman, The Favorite by Joe Correll, and Forever Bound by Steve Apostolina.  Ann also participated as a director in Center Theatre Group’s 2022 LA Writers’ Workshop at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, directing the reading of Jami Brandli’s new play, The Magician’s Sister.

Acting credits in Los Angeles theater: South Coast Repertory, LATC, Theatre 40, Missing Piece Theater, Taper Too, CAST Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional Theatre: New Harmony Theatre, Alaska Repertory. Film: Strange Nature, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Accused, and My Father the Hero. Television: The Dollmaker, ER, Designing Women, Evening Shade, and Rizzoli & Isles.

Artists she feels have had the most impact on her: director and acting teacher Harry Mastrogeorge, actors/directors Bruce Gray and  Flora Plumb, Norwegian director Stein Winge, Professor August Staub and her husband Stephen Tobolowsky, also an actor/director and writer.