Anna Fuerstenberg
Anna Fuerstenberg was born in a refugee camp outside Stuttgart Germany. She came to Montreal as a child and won a scholarship to The Montreal Repertory Theatre School. It changed her life. Her plays and film scripts have been produced in Canada and abroad, and she has directed theatre in several languages and on several continents. Fuerstenberg was the Director of the Theatre Plant and Teatro Sin Fronteras in Toronto. Ms. Fuerstenberg is currently on the board of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS NETWORK of Quebec as a theatre representative.
Her plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. She has written films short stories and poetry, which have appeared in Parchment and Montreal Serai. She has reviewed books for the Montreal Gazette and theatre for Rover Arts. For seven years she was the Quebec representative of the playwrights Guild of Canada.
Ms. Fuerstenberg returned to the stage, performing at the Dark Horse Theatre in Nashville and the Tarragon Extra Space in Toronto, and in Reading Hebron in Montreal. She has also appeared in various films and television productions. Fuerstenberg directed three original one act plays at Concordia, one of which, Midnight at the Metro, a musical, she also wrote. She is the dramaturge and director of Crossroads which opened at The Centaur Theatre in Montreal, and directed her version of The Tale of Two Cities at The King Centre in Denver Colorado, where she performed her one woman show, Saidye in the New Millennium. She is currently working on a number of projects to be realized in Ecuador in the coming years.
If her work has any success there will be more theatre venues and rehearsal spaces in the province of Quebec, and young and established artists will be able to work and live in this beautiful place.
