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, 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 was most recently seen as Masha in Utopia's immersive production of The Three Sisters. Her original plays Seeds (Director) and Every Day Alice (Alice) have premiered at Utopia. Additional performance credits include Nina in The Seagull (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. 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.
Anne is currently producing UTOPIA Theatre Project's Livestreamed PlayReading Series with Associate Artistic Director Ella Ruth Francis. She is also a co-writer on the new play Braided: A Native Noh Story with Theatre of Yugen.
Anne is currently producing UTOPIA Theatre Project's Livestreamed PlayReading Series with Associate Artistic Director Ella Ruth Francis. She is also a co-writer on the new play Braided: A Native Noh Story with Theatre of Yugen.
*Hamlet Photography above by Evelyn Huynh.
