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, City Lights Theater Company, Silicon Valley Shakespeare (formerly Shady Shakespeare), Arabian Shakespeare Festival, PlayGround, Moxie Arts NY, 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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Recent Projects:
"Japantown Returnings" Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene. Actor. May 31, 2pm and 6pm "The Future That Liberals Want; or, Resume-Building Post Apocalypse" Awesome Theatre. Costume Designer. May 2 - 24 at 7pm "The Shape of Things" The 222. Actor. Feb 21 - Mar 2, 2025 "The Window Affair" Town Hall Theatre. Writer. Mar 21-23, 2025 "Apertures of Love in Times of War" Playground Festival of New Works. Writer. "To Master the Art" Contra Costa Civic Theatre. Actor. |
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Playwriting
Anne's full-length play Apertures of Love in Times of War was produced at the PlayGround New Works Festival in 2024. She has written multiple short plays for virtual production: The Art of Suffrage (Best of PlayGround), Coward's Flame, and Give Me the Sky (MondayNightPlayGround, Simulation (Pear Theatre), Roses in the Desert (Dragon Theatre) and The Disappearance of Betty La Rose (Neighborhood Stories). 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. Anne was a co-writer for Braided, a new play exploring Native American liberation and Japanese American resilience, which received a workshop showcase with CalShakes and Theatre of Yugen. Anne was also the Writer/Collaborator for the A.C.T MFA production of Neo-Symposium, directed by Shannon R. Davis.
Anne's full-length play Apertures of Love in Times of War was produced at the PlayGround New Works Festival in 2024. She has written multiple short plays for virtual production: The Art of Suffrage (Best of PlayGround), Coward's Flame, and Give Me the Sky (MondayNightPlayGround, Simulation (Pear Theatre), Roses in the Desert (Dragon Theatre) and The Disappearance of Betty La Rose (Neighborhood Stories). 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. Anne was a co-writer for Braided, a new play exploring Native American liberation and Japanese American resilience, which received a workshop showcase with CalShakes and Theatre of Yugen. Anne was also the Writer/Collaborator for the A.C.T MFA production of Neo-Symposium, directed by Shannon R. Davis.
Acting
Anne was most recently seen as Evelyn in The Shape of Things at 222 Healdsburg. Additional performance credits include: Masha in Utopia's immersive production of The Three Sisters. 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 Simca in To Master the Art (City Lights Theater Company).
Anne was most recently seen as Evelyn in The Shape of Things at 222 Healdsburg. Additional performance credits include: Masha in Utopia's immersive production of The Three Sisters. 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 Simca in To Master the Art (City Lights Theater Company).
*Hamlet Photography above by Evelyn Huynh.
