| Biography |
Born and raised in Toronto, Anne’s writing career began as a satirical songwriter/ performer for CBC Radio. Anne moved to Singapore in 1995 where she began working as a Senior Copywriter at an advertising agency and ended up cutting her teeth as a sitcom writer at the Television Corporation of Singapore, with nine episodes produced for three Singapore sitcoms (yes, in English) – Under One Roof (on Omni 2 in Toronto), Three Rooms, and an Asian Television Award-winning episode of My Grandson The Doctor. Since returning to Toronto in 1998, Anne has worked on numerous film and TV projects as a writer and story editor. She has developed five original comedy series, including Windermere (CBC/Frantic Films) and The Grapes of Rathnelly (CTV), Rancho Mirage (co-created with Mary Jo Eustace), Members, and Fluffy Kittens, a feline webisode series. Anne’s produced Canadian TV credits include Singles Court (Omni TV), Hoze Houndz (Family Channel), and the new animated comedy series, Producing Parker (Global/E!). Anne has run and/or participated in many writing rooms on various original series, taught TV screenwriting at the Toronto Film College, and was Head Writer (development phase) for 11 Cameras (CBC). Anne is a graduate (2001) of the Canadian Film Centre, where she attended the Prime Time TV Writing Programme led by writers/producers Bill Laurin and Glenn Davis (1-800-Missing, Power Play). Anne’s short film, Topic of Cancer, premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Canadian Short Film at the 2002 Toronto Latino Film & Video Festival. Her feature-length comedy, Guitarded, was a Quarterfinalist in the 2005 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition (under the title Leaving Samui), and has recently been optioned by an international production company. Anne’s humorous articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail newspaper, and Chatelaine and The Walrus magazines, and she has been nominated for several Canadian Magazine Awards (Humor Writing). She continues to write satirical songs --some of her commisioned song lyrics for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre’s “Kabarett” were recently included as part of the CanWest Cabaret Festival in October 2008, culminating in a final performance at the Four Seasons Centre. The Globe and Mail's Robert Everett-Green actually devoted an entire paragraph to reflect on her song, Asparagus Pee - which, he wrote, "...proved that cabaret could be at home in the bathroom, and reminded me that one major attraction of cabaret for contemporary classical composers is that it lets you do something in a popular idiom without appearing to be slumming." A performer at heart (like many writers), Anne's professional experience came full-circle in her acting role as a development executive in the short comedy film, Finding Zorba (Adrienne Amato, Peter Demas). Anne lives with the lovely, handsome and talented picture editor, James Bredin (aka Jimmy Rocket, guitarist for the non-profit rock band, The Punching Nuns.) They have two cats and no children that they know of. |
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