I'm happiest when collaborating with others so they find their voice and that sense of awesome liberation that comes when you step into your truth - whatever that is for you.
Since I can remember, I've made up stories, performed, devised, and elicited stories from others, too, in rehearsal spaces, in classrooms, upon the page. Over the years, I have come to appreciate the profound, transformative power of making and telling stories.
With experience in story development, assistant directing, production coordinating, script supervising, and post-production, I understand what it takes to bring a project to the screen.
As part of your production team, I do my utmost to serve your vision and your values. I do this with compassion through playful collaboration and from a place of respect.
I am a saver of animals; a writer, a maker of things that haven't yet been.
I am Anna.
A story derives from an idea - a moment glanced. Then, it disseminates notions, entertains, persuades, deludes, or inspires.
At the root of culture are ideas and stories that affect the way that society conducts itself - be it in a state of collectivism, grace and service or in isolation, selfishness and tyranny.
So if humankind is swayed by story, then we can use story to affect extraordinary, benevolent, regenerative transformation and describe a dream to which we all can aspire.
Let the dismantling and re-imagining begin. Let our arrangement of words birth a better guiding ideology.
These are the principles that inform my writing and the work of Future Story Now.
I've accomplished a few things - worked in film and television - clambered its ladder - then emigrated to India where I learned to teach English as a foreign language. (I loved it!) Next to Myanmar for more teaching. (Loved it even more.)
Then Life threw me a curveball.
On the backfoot, disempowered, I shed everything that was failing to serve me and discovered who I am at my core.
I came face-to-face with my need to write. I confronted a sequence of beliefs that... were they mine? I freed myself of their restrictions, re-wrote the script.
Making my come back, I am bringing my creative self from the margins to take centre page because a life lived in the shadows of fear is a life half-lived.