A longtime collaborator of composer Dave Malloy, recent theater credits include the world premiere of OCTET at Signature Theatre Company, for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Direction and was named an SDC Callaway Award Finalist. She also directed the world premiere of Malloy's THREE HOUSES (Lortel Winner “Best Musical”; Drama League Nom), and the world premiere and subsequent tours of the award-winning GHOST QUARTET.
Other theater credits include the upcoming premiere of HUZZAH! by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe (Old Globe), Laura Benanti’s NOBODY CARES (Audible/Minetta Lane), Britta Johnson’s LIFE AFTER (CAA Ed Mirvish, Toronto; Goodman Theatre [Jeff Nom.]), Gabriel Kahane’s MAGIFICENT BIRD/BOOK OF TRAVELERS (Playwrights Horizons); the premiere of Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillips’ COWBOY BOB (Alley Theatre), the premiere of Julia May Jonas’ YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXEGESIS (LCT3), the premiere of Leslye Headland's CULT OF LOVE (IAMA Theatre Company), the west coast premiere of POTUS (Berkeley Rep), Bess Wohl's CONTINUITY (Goodman Theatre), THE HOMBRES (Two River), I HEARD SEX NOISES (Ars Nova) and two of the last pieces by James + Jerome: INK (co-directed with Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar/Met Museum) and THE CONVERSATIONALISTS (Bushwick Starr).
Annie’s short film HELP ME MARY marks her debut as a writer/director for the screen. The piece was selected for the LOWER EAST SIDE FILM FESTIVAL, for which it won the “Best Narrative Short Award”. It has also played at PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST, HOLLY SHORTS, SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL and the MONMOUTH FILM FESTIVAL. Her next short, EGG TIMER, written by Ryann Weir and Claire Rothrock, premiered at AUSTIN FILM FEST and LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL.
Annie served as the associate director for PRESENT LAUGHTER on Broadway (dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel). She was the Associate Director for The TEAM'S touring productions of MISSION DRIFT and RoosevElvis (dir. Rachel Chavkin) and Gabriel Kahane's THE AMBASSADOR (BAM; dir. John Tiffany).
With Dave Malloy, she taught a undergraduate course called A BLANK PAGE: Creativity, Collaboration, and Adaptation for Princeton University. She frequently mentors directing students at the Playwrights Horizons program at the Tisch School of the Arts.
She is a former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, and alumna of the Williamstown Directing Corps.
Check out Annie’s interview with Rachel Chavkin for SDCF.
Check out this video of the one on one conversation with Rachel Chavkin that SDCF hosted at Sunlight Studios. This conversation was focused on Rachel's expansive career as an artist and approach to her craft. There was a focus on her work as founding artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective the TEAM and how her work with the ensemble interacts and influences her work as a freelancer in the non-profit and commercial spaces. This interview was conducted by Annie Tippe.
Check out Annie’s interview with Rachel Lin on her podcast, UPSTAGE LEFT.
Featuring a discussion on the Signature Theatre production of Dave Malloy’s OCTET.
Read the NYTimes feature on Annie and Dave Malloy.
About the Signature Theatre world premiere production of OCTET in 2019.
Article by Alexis Solowski here.
Watch “Behind the scenes of OCTET.”
Annie and Dave talk about the West Coast premiere of OCTET at Berkeley Rep in 2022.