Stageworks Theatre

Stageworks Theatre is a theatre, based in Tampa, Florida and founded by Anna Brennen. It is currently being led by producing artistic director Karla Hartley. Stageworks Theater took possession of its own performance base in 2011 located in the Channelside District of Tampa.^[1]

Founder

Anna Brennen (Founder, Producing Director and permanent staff of Stageworks Theatre Company, Inc.) received her formal theatre training at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Berkeley. She studied in advanced private classes in New York City with Sandy Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse), Mira Rostova (Moscow Art Theatre), Wynn Handmann (American Place), and Lloyd Richards (Yale University Drama School). In 2006, Anna was given the Artist of the Year Award by the Mayor of the city of Tampa, Pam Iorio.

Anna's professional acting credits include understudying Colleen Dewhurst in Hamlet, as well as the three leads in Much Ado About Nothing for the New York Shakespeare Festival. She has also appeared with the Theatre for New York City, Playwrights Horizons and the Chelsea Theatre in New York City, New York.

As a playwright, Anna's first play, Sleepless Dancer (Victims 3), had an Equity showcase production at N.E.T.W.O.R.K. in New York City in 1980. She was a recipient of a Florida Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship in 1981. In 1989, she received an Emerging Artists grant from the Hillsborough County Arts Council for her new play, Echo Nevada, in 1991 the Hillsborough Arts Council honored her with the individual Artist Award. " In Tampa, she has produced and/or directed over 90 mainstage shows.

Directing credits

Delicate Balance Happy Days Perry Smith & Dick Hickock (an original) Twelfth Night House of Bernarda Alba The Lesson Body of Water Shining City Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Rupert's Birthday Side By Side By Sondheim Master Harold And The Boys Talking With The Maids A Conversation With Georgia O'Keeffe

The Fantasticks A Christmas Memory Search For Signs Execution of Justice Uncle Vanya Glengarry Glen Ross The Good Times Are Killing Me Molly Sweeney Moon For The Misbegotten All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten The Rose Tattoo Kindertransport Cripple Of Inishmaan Trip To Bountiful That Championship Season

Tale of the Allergist' Wife (Co-director) Angels in America: Part I Waiting for Godot The Laramie Project Le Derniere Grisette Turn of the Screw Hypoxia Zone Medea All My Sons A Picasso The Sisters Rosensweig Brighton Beach Memoirs The Chairs Private Lives

Awards

Recipient	Award	Presenter
Anna Brennen, Founder	Mayor’s Artist of the Year 2006	Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce
Stageworks Theatre	Neighborhood Builder of the Year 2007	Bank of America
Main Stage Productions	Named ‘The Best Of” in at least four categories	The Tampa Tribune and Creative Loafing
Stageworks Theatre	Non-Profit of the Year	Tampa Bay Business Journal

References

1. HYPOXIA ZONE. By kimberley A. Hanna. Dir. Anna Brennen. Stageworks Theatre, Inc., Tampa, FL 8–25 July 2004.

External links

• Stageworks Theatre Website