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. 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.
In summer of 2017 Anne played the title role in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production of Hamlet.
Her new play, Every Day Alice, was performed at PianoFight this past spring with Utopia Theatre Project.
In summer of 2019 Anne played Celia in the new musical of As You Like It with SF Shakespeare Festival.
Anne can next be seen as Masha in a new adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters with Utopia Theatre Project. Support this production by donating to our Kickstarter! Utopia Theatre Project Presents: Three Sisters
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.
In summer of 2017 Anne played the title role in Silicon Valley Shakespeare's all-female production of Hamlet.
Her new play, Every Day Alice, was performed at PianoFight this past spring with Utopia Theatre Project.
In summer of 2019 Anne played Celia in the new musical of As You Like It with SF Shakespeare Festival.
Anne can next be seen as Masha in a new adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters with Utopia Theatre Project. Support this production by donating to our Kickstarter! Utopia Theatre Project Presents: Three Sisters
