Anna Ziegler

Anna Ziegler is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced extensively in the U.S. and internationally.

Her play Photograph 51 premiered in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre in a production directed by Michael Grandage and 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 and 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. It's 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 (produced by FilmNation, Mandy Greenfield’s Red Yes Studio, Leviathan Pictures).

Ziegler's recent play The Janeiad premiered last season at The Old Globe and The Alley Theatre and was a finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her other widely produced plays include Actually (select productions: Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Trafalgar Studios), The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Marylebone Theatre), The Last Match (The Old Globe), and Dov and Ali (Theatre503).

She holds commissions from The Shed and AF Creative Media (Brian and Dayna Lee). Her plays are collected in two anthologies published by Bloomsbury.

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.