Biography

Anna K. Jacobs wrote the music for POP!, which won three Connecticut Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Production of a Musical, and Stella and the Moon Man, which won a Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children. Current projects include a musical adaptation of the cult horror film, Teeth, and Harmony, Kansas, which tells the story of a gay men's a cappella group in rural Kansas.

In spring 2012, Pittsburgh City Theatre will mount a brand new production of POP!, and Diversionary Theatre will produce the world premiere of Harmony, Kansas. Goodspeed Musicals will also produce a developmental workshop of Harmony, Kansas as part of their Festival of New Artists.

In the past, Anna's shows have been developed and produced by Yale Repertory Theatre and the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, the Studio Theatre, Singing On Stage Productions, the Sydney Theatre Company and Theatre of Image, the Penn State New Musical Theatre Festival, and NYU (SCAN). Her music and lyrics have been featured at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, Ars Nova, Cutting-Edge Composers, NAMT, the Darlinghurst Theatre, and many others. She is a 2010-11 Dramatists Guild Fellow, a recent recipient of Dame Joan Sutherland Fund and Anna Sosenko Assist Trust grants, and has been an Artist in Residence at New Dramatists, CAP21, Goodspeed Musicals, Bundanon Trust, and Hotchkiss Summer Portals, where she also teaches annual workshops in musical theater songwriting and performance.

Anna is an on-staff Artist at the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She received her M.F.A. from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, her B.M. (Honors I) from the University of Sydney, and also studied composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild of America, and is represented by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm Talent Agency.

Originally from Sydney, Australia, she is now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Luke, and cats, Josie and Max.

Current to November 2011