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Annie Lesser has a unique stage presence which some say is due to her 7 years spent as a concert flautist, having played in the lobby of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13 and taken a master class with James Galway. When she was 10 she starred in the original musical "The Black Turtle" on the Emrald City Theater's stage at the Old Town School of Folk Music. She directed her first one act, "My Brother Bernard," at the age of 12. She continued to play the community and school theater circuits playing roles which included Kate in "Kiss Me Kate", Shulamise in "To Capture the Moon", and Rita in "You Can't Take it With You." At the young age of 15 she had her one act play "Addiction" selected to be performed in the inaugeral year of the annual student theater festival COPALA. Two years later Annie had antoher one of her one acts, "Dark Side of the Moon", mounted at COPALA. One year after that Annie rejoined COPALA as the director of "What is a Ghetto?" In the meantime Annie was exploring improv comedy at the legendary IO (formerly Improv Olympic) and Annoyance Theaters. She became one of the youngest people to ever graduate the two theaters' programs. She has been part of the improv groups The Number H and Twisted as well as having been part of a short remount of the Eight Foot Tick at The Playground Theater. Annie has appeared as a member of Hodge Podge, the rotating group that performs with The Chicago Improv Rebellion (formerly The Midnight Show). In May of 2007 Annie produced a series of panels at the Lakeshore Theater on the history and contemporary significance of sketch comedy; the panelists included Jason Chin, Greg Allen, and Tony Mendoza. During the summer of 2008 Annie was the Second Assistant Director on the Bailiwick Repertory Theater's production of "Tell Me On a Sunday." Annie is currently studying playwrighting at the Rita and Burton Goldberg Deaprtment of Dramatic Writing at New York University. Download her Theater Resume here. Click here to return to the main page. |