While in Japan she also produced 2 of her major works: Dark Tide and The Soul Salon, touring the latter to Italy’s Theatropolis festival. In the USA (2001-6) she worked for 4 years acting and directing with Michigan Classical Repertory Company on classical masterpieces from Molière to Shakespeare, directed a blues musical We Are Not Good Girls and performed in Chekhov’s The Seagull which toured to Moscow’s International Chekhov Festival in 2004.

Since returning to Australia in 2006, Annie has directed the première of Nick Parson’s musical A Nasty Piece of Work in Sydney, acted in major roles for different companies on the NSW Central Coast and in Newcastle, including playing Elizabeth 1 in her own play Elizabeth and Grace. She’s directed Ophelia Thinks Harder, Humble Boy, An Inspector Calls and her own adaptation of Antigone, and also established and run Woy Woy’s inaugural FLASH festivals. She continues as a play assessor and freelance dramaturg for various theatres and individual writers, adjudicates Newcastle’s MICRO THEATRE Festival, and has just completed judging on a major Australian playwriting award for Sydney’s New Theatre.

A Theatre MA (UNSW), Annie has won several playwriting prizes. She has a portfolio of 8 short plays (all of them produced) and 5 full-length works (4 produced). The 5th, RAMAT, is set in early 20th century Japan, and requiring at least 10 actors of Ainu Aboriginality, has yet to be staged. Her latest major work is another thoroughly-researched historical drama based on a true story: The Interesting Mrs Abell. With roots in early Colonial history and the Southern Tablelands, this play is planned as a legacy event of Goulburn 2020, with funded production to take place in 2021.