Anna Ziegler

Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced extensively across the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally.

Her play Photograph 51 premiered in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre in a production starring Nicole Kidman, who won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance. The play won London’s WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play, has been produced around the world—including at the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv, Melbourne Theatre Company, Teatro Eliseo in Rome, and the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg—and is included in Bloomsbury’s Modern Classics series. Ziegler has written the screenplay for the film adaptation, which will be directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper and produced by Leviathan Productions, Red Yes Studio and FilmNation Entertainment.

Her most recent play, The Janeiad, premiered last season at The Old Globe and The Alley Theatre. It was a finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation. Her other widely produced plays include Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Trafalgar Studios), The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Gesher Theatre, Marylebone Theatre), The Last Match (The Old Globe, Writers Theatre, City Theatre Company), Boy (Keen Company/Ensemble Studio Theatre), Dov and Ali (Theatre503), A Delicate Ship (The Playwrights Realm; Cincinnati Playhouse), and Another Way Home (The Magic Theatre).

Her plays have also been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Theater J, San Diego Repertory Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, and many other regional theatres. Her work has received honors including the San Diego Critics Circle Award, LA's Ovation Award, Germany’s Barbara Kisseler Theater Prize, and a nomination from the NY Outer Critics Circle. Her plays are collected in two anthologies published by Bloomsbury, and in editions by Dramatists Play Service.

Ziegler is currently developing Go, Team as a television series for Paramount, with Claire Danes attached to star and Marielle Heller attached to direct. She holds commissions from The Shed, Manhattan Theatre Club and AF Creative Media (Brian and Dayna Lee).

Her new play antigone (this play I read in high school) premieres this winter at New York’s Public Theater. 

Ziegler is a graduate of Yale University and holds master’s degrees from the University of East Anglia and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.