Anna Chatterton

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About Anna Chatterton

Anna Chatterton is a librettist, playwright and performer. Anna's play "Within the Glass"​ will premiere at Tarragon Theatre on the MainStage January 2016, where she has been a playwright in residence since 2011. She is also the 2015-2016 Playwright in Residence at Nightwood Theatre. She performed a workshop production of her solo show "Quiver"​ presented by Theatre Aquarius. Anna is a co-founding member of Independent Auntie Theatre with whom she has co-written and co-produced six plays including the upcoming Gertrude and Alice co-produced with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in March 2016. Anna's opera work has been commissioned and produced by various theatres, opera and music companies and festivals in Toronto and across Canada including; The Canadian Opera Company, World Stage/Harbourfront Centre, Tapestry Opera, The Theatre Centre, Soundstreams, and The Sound Symposium. Anna was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Opera and has been nominated three times for the K.M. Hunter Award for Theatre. Upcoming: workshop production of the opera CRUSH (composer James Rolfe) at the Banff Centre for the Arts produced by Canadian Opera Company. A new opera- The Man Who Married Himself (with composer Juliet Palmer), commissioned by Toronto Masque Theatre, as well as "Sweat"​ (also with Palmer) for Centre for Contemporary Opera (NYC) and acting in a play "Princess" written and directed by Sky Gilbert.