Actor ~ Playwright ~ Director ~ Producer ~ Teaching Artist ~ Costume Designer
Anne Yumi Kobori is a Japanese-American multi-disciplinary theatre artist with a passion for immersive storytelling and reimagined mythology. She believes in live theatre as a unique and powerful form of human connection. Anne has performed with Berkeley REP Ground Floor, SF Shakespeare Festival, Silicon Valley Shakespeare (formerly Shady Shakespeare), Arabian Shakespeare Festival, PlayGround, Amios ShotzSF, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, Woman's Will, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Stagebridge Theatre Co., Cardboard Box Theatre Project, and with college companies in New York and the Bay Area. In 2014 Anne founded Utopia Theatre Project in order to support emerging artists and produce theatre which inspires social change and actor-audience connection. She graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University with a BA in Theatre Arts.
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Upcoming Projects:
~May 15-30 @ 2pm: Drive-through performance of "The Disappearance of Betty La Rose" with Neighborhood Stories El Cerrito. Writer. ~May 28-31: Livestreamed recording of "Good Mourning Part 2" by Jessica Wu with Moxie Arts New York. Actor. ~May 29-30 @7pm: Livestreamed production of "The Art of Suffrage" in Best of PlayGround 25 Festival. Writer. ~Aug 13-29 : Livestreamed production of "Folktales from Around the World" with Silicon Valley Shakespeare. Director. |
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Playwriting
Anne was selected as a member of PlayGroundSF's Writers Pool this year! Her pieces "The Art of Suffrage," "Coward's Flame," and "Give Me the Sky" have premiered virtually with MondayNightPlayGround. Her full-length plays "Seeds" and "Every Day Alice," and adaptation of "The Seagull," have premiered with Utopia Theatre Project. "The Scourge of Verona," her comedic short, won the 2021 Audience Favorite Award in Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s 48Hr Playfest. Currently, she is a co-writer for "Braided," a new play exploring Native American liberation and Japanese American resilience. "Braided" is in development with Theatre of Yugen, NEA -funded, and received a workshop showcase with TheatreWorks' Writer Retreat in January.
Anne was selected as a member of PlayGroundSF's Writers Pool this year! Her pieces "The Art of Suffrage," "Coward's Flame," and "Give Me the Sky" have premiered virtually with MondayNightPlayGround. Her full-length plays "Seeds" and "Every Day Alice," and adaptation of "The Seagull," have premiered with Utopia Theatre Project. "The Scourge of Verona," her comedic short, won the 2021 Audience Favorite Award in Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s 48Hr Playfest. Currently, she is a co-writer for "Braided," a new play exploring Native American liberation and Japanese American resilience. "Braided" is in development with Theatre of Yugen, NEA -funded, and received a workshop showcase with TheatreWorks' Writer Retreat in January.
Acting
Anne was most recently seen as Masha in Utopia's immersive production of The Three Sisters. Additional performance credits include Nina in The Seagull, Alice in Every Day Alice (Utopia), the title role in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello (Silicon Valley Shakespeare), Celia in As You Like It the musical (SF Shakespeare Festival), Peggy Maruyama in Allegiance (CCCT), and numerous ShotzSF comedy shorts.
Anne was most recently seen as Masha in Utopia's immersive production of The Three Sisters. Additional performance credits include Nina in The Seagull, Alice in Every Day Alice (Utopia), the title role in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello (Silicon Valley Shakespeare), Celia in As You Like It the musical (SF Shakespeare Festival), Peggy Maruyama in Allegiance (CCCT), and numerous ShotzSF comedy shorts.
*Hamlet Photography above by Evelyn Huynh.
