Actor ~ Playwright ~ Director ~ Producer ~ Teaching Artist ~ Costume Designer
Anne Yumi Kobori is a Bay-Area based theatre professional and teaching artist. 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, Amios ShotzSF, PlayGround, 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. Her plays The Flapper and Seeds have been performed in the New Playwrights' Festival at Santa Clara University. Anne graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University with a BA in Theatre Arts.
In February of 2015, Anne was made a Resident Artist with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Anne is now the Education Program Manager at SF Shakespeare Festival.
Last summer Anne played the title role in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production of Hamlet. She can next be seen as Peggy Maruyama in the Bay Area premiere of Allegiance; a new musical with Contra Costa Civic Theatre. September 21 - October 21, 2018.
Her new play, Every Day Alice, will premiere this winter with Utopia Theatre Project.
In February of 2015, Anne was made a Resident Artist with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Anne is now the Education Program Manager at SF Shakespeare Festival.
Last summer Anne played the title role in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production of Hamlet. She can next be seen as Peggy Maruyama in the Bay Area premiere of Allegiance; a new musical with Contra Costa Civic Theatre. September 21 - October 21, 2018.
Her new play, Every Day Alice, will premiere this winter with Utopia Theatre Project.
