Anne Flanagan is a Los Angeles - based writer/teacher/private investigator.
Anne's stage play, ARTIFICE, was awarded the 2010/2011 Reva Shiner Comedy Award, the 2007 McLaren Memorial Comedy Award, as well as the 2006 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwrighting award.
ARTIFICE will receive its professional premiere at the Bloomington Playwright's Project Theater in December of 2010. Previous productions include the Southwestern premiere at the MCT Theater in Midland, Texas (2008) and a fully staged production as part of the Dayton Playhouse "Future Fest" Competition (2007).
Anne's play FIRST CHILL received the Julie Harris Playwright's Award and the Plays for the 21st Century award.
Anne is also the recipient of the 13th annual AFI/SONY "Visions of the US" award and was a top ten finalist for the Chesterfield Film Writer's Project two years running.
Flanagan is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, United Teachers of Los Angeles, the Young Storytellers Foundation, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Auto Club.
Oh, Mom. Everything is slipping away. We're all just -- slipping -- we're rotting -- we all are - I feel it - we're decaying, like leaves. Remember leaves? Every autumn, the piles of leaves, moldering on the ground. The ground under which we buried our vegetables, our dead pets, souvenir arrow heads, and the Hustler magazine that Fiona and I dug out of the neighbor's trash one afternoon and read with fascination and horror till it got dark. We hid it under a rock by the garden and covered it with dead leaves, dirt, twigs. My hands were so cold, my fingers burned. Then we raced each other to the house -- to the warm kitchen, to soup simmering on the stove, to the smoky fire place, and to you.
