Acclaimed director, educator, and founder and co-artistic director of SITI Company Anne Bogart returns to The Actors Center in October for “Where Do I Leave Off and Where Do You Begin?”—a workshop devoted to collaboration.
Anne Bogart is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. She was one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. The venerable company, which lasted for three decades, had its final performance in 2022.
Anne is the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Skidmore College, Bard College, and Cornish College. She was a recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, the Richard B. Fisher Award, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and the 2016 Alfred Drake Award from Brooklyn College.
She is also the author of six books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne; and What’s the Story, and most recently The Art of Resonance.
Her works with SITI Company include Radio Christmas Carol, Falling & Loving, The Bacchae, Chess Match, The Theater is a Blank Page, Steel Hammer, Persians, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Freshwater, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, The Radio Play, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Miss Julie, and Orestes. Her operas include The Handmaid’s Tale, Handel’s Alcina, Dvorak’s Dimitrij, Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s Norma and Bizet’s Carmen.
