Playwriting
Short Bio: ANNE UNDELAND is a member the Dramatists Guild, Howl Playwrights, and Rooted Writers. Productions and workshops of full-length plays include Lady Randy (WAM Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, 2019), Wharton Between the Sheets (Great Barrington Public Theater, 2021 [four Berkshire Theater Critics Association nominations including outstanding new play] Gloucester Stage, Boston 2022, Salmagundi Club, NY 2023, and semifinalist LA’s The Road Theater 2024 New Play Festival). Her short work has been presented around the country (The Road Theater, Nevada Arts Council, SpeakEasy Theater, Windhover Center for Performing Arts, Oldcastle, etc.) with her short, The Kiss winning best play at the Ten Minute Play Festival at the West Side Y in NYC and her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review. She has a BA in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University, works for the sculptor, George Rickey, and is currently at work on a commission from Great Barrington Public Theater for a full-length play: Madame Mozart, the Lacrymosa. https://www.anneundeland.com/
Long Bio: ANNE UNDELAND is a theater artist who has worked throughout the Northeast with Great Barrington Public Theatre, WAM Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Ancram Opera House, Ventfort Hall, Barrington Stage, Stageworks, Capital Repertory Theatre, Mixed Company, Mop and Bucket Company, Shakespeare & Company, Metropolitan Playhouse, Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, and the New Repertory Theatre. Born in Egypt (her father was a diplomat), she attended Wesleyan University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Medieval Studies. Anne spent years as a puppeteer, she developed living history programs for museums, ran oral history projects, narrated audiobooks and played roles in numerous productions for BBC radio and WBUR/Boston. Recently she’s branched out into playwriting and is a member the Dramatists Guild, Howl Playwrights, The Writers’ Rock, and Berkshire Voices. Her work has been presented around the country with her short, The Kiss winning best play at the Ten Minute Play Festival at the West Side Y, her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review, her monologue King of the Dink a finalist at Spellbinder Art Literary Quarterly, her full-length solo show, My Louisa a semi-finalist at the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, and her first full-length play, Lady Randy, produced by WAM Theatre and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her most recent full-length, Wharton Between the Sheets, was produced by Great Barrington Public Theater in 2021 (four Berkshire Theater Critics award nominations, including outstanding new play) and by Boston’s Gloucester Stage in 2022, had a reading at NYC’s Salmagundi Club in 2023, and was a semifinalist for LA’s The Road Theater New Works Festival in 2024. She was the featured playwright with four short plays presented in Putting On Our Shorts, an Evening of Short Plays and Solo Dances at Windhover Center for Performing Arts in Rockport, MA. Most recently, she was featured in the Boston Theater Marathon. She works for the sculptor, George Rickey to keep the wolves from the dooe and is currently at work on a commission from Great Barrington Public Theater for a full-length play: Madame Mozart, the Lacrymosa. https://www.anneundeland.com/
Full-Length Plays
BETWEEN THE SHEETS
Production, Gloucester Stage, Gloucester, MA, 2022
Production, Great Barrington Public Theater, Great Barrington, MA, 2021 (as MR. FULLERTON)
What happens when a 46-year-old woman falls in love for the first and only time? What happens when that woman is Edith Wharton?
Nominated, Berkshire Theater Critics Association’s Sugarman Award for Outstanding New Play, 2021
MY LOUISA
Reading, The Mount, Lenox MA, 2020
Zoom Reading, Tiny Theatre, Fort Myers, FL, 2020
Semi-finalist, Finalist,Garry Marshall Theater New Works Festival, 2021
Stuck to a single point on her living room floor, Valerie is paralyzed by a marriage gone terribly, violently wrong. Her one comfort? Louisa May Alcott and her timeless but troublesome classic, Little Women.
LADY RANDY
Production, WAM Theatre/Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA, 2019
Reading, Shakespeare & Company Fringe Festival, 2018
In 1874, the American heiress, Jennie Jerome had it all. She was young, rich, beautiful, married an English lord, and had just given birth to Winston Churchill. What could go wrong?
THE HUNGRY HEART BAR AND GIRL
Reading, Shakespeare & Company Fringe Festival, 2019
Reading, Bascom Lodge, Lanesborough, MA, 2019
Welcome to The Hungry Heart Bar and Girl where the menu includes life imitating art, old friends fighting and dancing, and a woman discovering the scent of a long-gone lover, all served up in a series of vignettes that are savory, tart and a little bit sweet.
Selected Short Pieces
KING OF THE DINK (monologue)
Bobby can’t believe his buddy and volleyball brother is dead
Shortlisted, Spellbinder Quarterly, Autumn 2022
GUN AND BOW (one act)
Tamsin wants to buy a gun from the guy in the gun store. The guy in the gun store doesn’t want to sell it to her.
Selected, Play Lab at the Valdez Theatre Conference, 2022
ADELINE’S GAMBOL(15 minute audio short)
Produced, Howl Playwrights, Rhinebeck, NY 2021 (produced virtually, listen/watch here)
A wild chase through the forest deep in Victorian crinolines, frilly bows, and full-throated female rebellion.
Finalist, The Miller Audio Award, The Missouri Review, 2021
MEET THE DEADLIES (one-act zoom play)
Reading, Great Barrington Public Theater’s Online Festival, “Six Feet Together” 2020
Another day, another opportunity to sin. Meet the seven deadly sins embodied by women you see but never stop to think about.
ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD (10 minute)
Production, Berkshire Playwright’s Lab Radius Festival, 2019
Two actresses and the role of a lifetime. How can you be BFFs and still work in show biz?
THE KISS (10 minute)
Production, Bennington Performing Arts Center, Bennington, VT, 2019
Reading, The Road Theatre Summer Playwright’s Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Production, Berkshire Playwrights Lab's Radius Festival, Great Barrington, MA, 2018
Production, Writer's Voice 10 Minute Play Festival, West Side Y, New York, 2018,
A woman's encounter with a Rodin sculpture causes her to question the meaning of love and to ask herself, "what if?"
Winner, Best Play, Writer's Voice 10 Minute Play Festival, West Side Y, New York, 2018
THE SISTERHOOD (10 minute)
Reading, Howl Playwrights, Rhinebeck, NY, 2019
Reading, Theatrefest, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Great Barrington, MA, 2019
When middle-aged Cookie suddenly discovers she’s invisible, Candy invites her into The Sisterhood
BOB DOLE FOR PRESIDENT (10 minute)
Reading, Howl Playwrights, Rhinebeck, NY, 2018
When two old friends dance together for the first time they wonder, was he the one that got away? Was she?
BEANS! (children's play, 30 minutes)
Performed, Berkshire Country Day School, Lenox, MA, 2017
A hilarious retelling of the classic fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk
Recognition and Awards
BETWEEN THE SHEETS, Nominated, Berkshire Theater Critics Association’s Sugarman Award for Outstanding New Play, 2021
MY LOUISA, Finalist, Garry Marshall Theater New Works Festival, 2021
ADELINE’S GAMBOL, Finalist, The Miller Audio Award, The Missouri Review, 2021
THE KISS, Winner, Best Play, The Writer's Voice 10 Minute Play Festival, West Side Y, New York, 2018
KING OF THE DINK, Shortlisted, Spellbinder Quarterly, Autumn 2022