Anna Zastrow has been a professional actor for over 20 years and has taught theater to adults and youth for over 10 years.
Anna's theatrical pursuits began at an early age. Plopped out of momma's belly and faced with the absurdity of life, she quickly sought outlets for her irrepressible clown spirit.
Her first major dramatic role, after being born, was as a Snow Angel in kindergarten; she then moved on to produce, direct, and perform her own theater piece about an evil queen in third grade, and generally continued being a nuisance to the teachers by her great theatrical antics and ambitions.
Born in Wisconsin, it was not long before she was transplanted to Sweden, and there Anna spent the majority of her formative years among the dark forces of the night-lit North, sharing this fate with the likes of Strindberg, Munck, and Grieg. She eventually escaped to New York.
Anna has called New York City home ever since, except for a few years of self-imposed exile, most notably to Paris, where she spent two lunatic years at Ecole Jacques Lecoq: a conservatory for the study of movement, rhythm, and space in the universe of theater.
Anna specializes in physical theater approaches and in recent years has turned her focus to clowning, cultural exchange and contribution: using the theater arts for social and humanitarian outreach. She is actively involved with Bond Street Theatre as a performer, teacher, director and project manager and has worked with them on projects in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Haiti. She has also joined Clowns Without Borders on expeditions in Haiti and Indonesia and created a three-month project in Thailand and Cambodia to provide creative arts workshops to disadvantaged youth.
Anna has provided physical theater training for professional conservatories, theater companies and arts-in-education programs, and directed or provided directorial consulting for multiple productions. As a performer she has numerous contemporary and classical theater credits in national and international theatre venues.
Anna is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She received a B.S. from The New School, where she studied psychology, culture and creative arts therapy.
Anna's theatrical pursuits began at an early age. Plopped out of momma's belly and faced with the absurdity of life, she quickly sought outlets for her irrepressible clown spirit.
Her first major dramatic role, after being born, was as a Snow Angel in kindergarten; she then moved on to produce, direct, and perform her own theater piece about an evil queen in third grade, and generally continued being a nuisance to the teachers by her great theatrical antics and ambitions.
Born in Wisconsin, it was not long before she was transplanted to Sweden, and there Anna spent the majority of her formative years among the dark forces of the night-lit North, sharing this fate with the likes of Strindberg, Munck, and Grieg. She eventually escaped to New York.
Anna has called New York City home ever since, except for a few years of self-imposed exile, most notably to Paris, where she spent two lunatic years at Ecole Jacques Lecoq: a conservatory for the study of movement, rhythm, and space in the universe of theater.
Anna specializes in physical theater approaches and in recent years has turned her focus to clowning, cultural exchange and contribution: using the theater arts for social and humanitarian outreach. She is actively involved with Bond Street Theatre as a performer, teacher, director and project manager and has worked with them on projects in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Haiti. She has also joined Clowns Without Borders on expeditions in Haiti and Indonesia and created a three-month project in Thailand and Cambodia to provide creative arts workshops to disadvantaged youth.
Anna has provided physical theater training for professional conservatories, theater companies and arts-in-education programs, and directed or provided directorial consulting for multiple productions. As a performer she has numerous contemporary and classical theater credits in national and international theatre venues.
Anna is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She received a B.S. from The New School, where she studied psychology, culture and creative arts therapy.