Anna Kohler

Actor, author and director Anna Kohler joined the New York experimental theater scene in 1982, after studying in Paris and Austria. She has worked on stage with some of America’s most respected playwrights, actors and directors, and was a longtime collaborator and associate member of The Wooster Group, performing in such iconic shows as “LSD, just the Highpoints... “, “The Temptations of St. Anthony.” ,“North Atlantic” , “Brace Up!” and others. When she reprised her role as Natalya in the Group’s revival of their seminal piece “Brace Up!” her performance was praised in The New Yorker as the “emotional center” of the show.  She also appeared in films like “Far away, so close” (Wim Wenders, with Peter Falk),“White Homeland Commando” (Liz LeCompte, with Willem Dafoe), “The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez” (Peter Sellars, with Peter Gallagher), “On the Run”, (Bruno D’ Almeida, with Michael Imperioli), The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, with PJ Harvey) and many others. As an author/director, she has conceived and directed plays that have been performed in Austria, Germany, Brazil, and the United States. Her newest piece “Impossible Joy” ran at The Tank theater in NYC in September 2022, as well as at the W97 Theater Space in Cambridge, MA in June of the same year. In December of 2016 she premiered her show “MYTHO? Lure of Wildness”, co- starring Hapi Phace, at the Playwright’s Center Boston and at Abrons Art Center, NYC. Other recent performance credits include “I am bleeding all over the place”, written and directed by Brooke O'Harra at La Mama NYC, John Jesurun's “Chang in A Void Moon - The Incubator Episodes” at the Ontological Theater NYC. Before that she was touring with Richard Maxwell’s “Ode to the Man who Kneels” all over Europe and Brazil and in “Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M." at Central Square Theater in Cambridge. In December 2012, she appeared as Medea at the Roulette Theater in NYC in “The Medead – the Opera” by Fiona Templeton.  From 2010 till 2023 she held the position of Senior Lecturer in Theater and Performance Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a teaching artist. Over the years, she also translated over 20 modern theater works from English into German and French and vice versa. These are several plays by Richard Foreman and Richard Maxwell, as well as Young Jean Lee and others. She is looking forward to a guest appearance in Daniel Irizzary’s “Class dismissed” at La Mama, NYC in April 2025.