Anna Moench's plays include Hunger, In Quietness (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Great Eastern, and The Pillow Book (59E59). Other productions of Anna’s work have been seen at the Old Vic, The Flea, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, The Kraine, The Looking Glass Theatre, and FringeNYC. Anna has developed plays with the Public Theater, the Lark, [the claque], 3Graces Theater Co., the Great Plains Conference, the Last Frontier Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and The Inkwell. 

Awards include the 2012 Van Lier Fellowship at the Lark, the Jerome Foundation’s 2009 Travel Grant, the 2010 T.S. Eliot Exchange with the Old Vic, and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Anna is a two-time recipient of the EST/Sloan Commission and has also been commissioned by NYU Tisch's Graduate Acting Program, Red Fern Theatre Company, and Haggard Middle School in Plano, TX. She has been a writer in residence at Baltimore's Center Stage, the Tofte Lake Center, the Vineyard Arts Project, the Lark's Winter Workshop, and the FAR Space, was a member of the 2010-11 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and has been a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre since 2008. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and an alumna of New Georges' writer-director lab, The Jam. 

Anna is a staff writer for [the claque]’s upcoming serial theater project, "The IRregulars," and a staff writer for the upcoming web series, "Mitch and Rudy." Her play for young actors, Backwards At The Speed Of Light, was recently published by Playscripts. Look for her work in Indiana University of Pennsylvania's and NYU Tisch's mainstage seasons in Fall 2012.

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Playwriting Seminar: Networking for Playwrights

Explore development opportunities that broaden a writer's community such as conferences, festivals, fellowships, self-producing, etc., and the etiquette of good-not-gross networking.

Taught by 2012-13 Jerome Fellow Anna Moench

Each month, the Playwrights' Center offers a seminar about the craft of playwriting. These sessions are taught by playwriting fellows and run from 6-8:30 pm in the Rehearsal Room at the Playwrights' Center. Seminars are free to current members and cost $20 for non members. Please contact Bethany Whitehead, Membership Manager, at bethanyw@pwcenter.org or (612) 332-7481 x23 to sign up, or if you have any questions about learning opportunities at the Playwrights' Center.

A new play

Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow Anna Moench will be in the Lab workshopping a new play. Her workshop will conclude with a readthrough of the play, free and open to the public. No tickets or RSVP necessary.

Director: Noel Raymond
Cast: Katie Bradley, Dustin Bronson, Sun Mee Chomet, Wai Ching Ho, Les Mau, Kris Nelson, Eric Sharp