Actress ~ Costume designer~Teaching Artist~Playwright ~Artistic Producer
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 acted with 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 student companies in New York and the Bay Area. Recently, 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 Shakes.
Anne can next be seen as Nina in The Seagull with Utopia Theatre Project! She will be playing Hamlet in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production in Saratoga Park this summer.
Anne's costume design can be seen in the SF Shakes touring show of Twelfth Night.
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 Shakes.
Anne can next be seen as Nina in The Seagull with Utopia Theatre Project! She will be playing Hamlet in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production in Saratoga Park this summer.
Anne's costume design can be seen in the SF Shakes touring show of Twelfth Night.