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Education
Educational Theatre
New York University, Master's Degree 2009
French
Chapman University, Bachelor's Degree 2006
Technical Writing
CSU Hayward 2008, Certificate
Studies Completed in French
Universite Stendhal, Grenoble III- Grenoble, France
Writing
fiction represented by Irene Goodman at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.
2008- Present- Freelance Content Author for several websites including AOL's spinner.com, overstock.com, waldenU.edu, proflowers.com, military.net, Brighthub.com, suite101, eHow, etc.
2000-present- A varied amount of stories and novels written, including two produced plays and several regional and local writing awards. Stories have been published in a select few literary journals.
Spring 2009- After the Fire Burns, a novel made it to the top 5% of the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award and received a review from Publisher's Weekly, the premiere magazine in the industry.
2008- Nielsen IAG. Writer. Tracked products on television shows and then wrote quizzes for their website to track product placement. New York, NY
2008- Sazze.com/dealspl.us. Content Author. Wrote product content for their various websites.
Educational & Theatrical Experience
2009-2010- Karinthy Frigyes Gimnazium. English Teacher. Budapest, Hungary
2009- The Actors Company Theatre. Study Guide for The Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller. New York, New York
2008- NYU. Workshop crafted and implemented with junior high girls in association with NYU's production of Kindertransport by Diane Samuels. Topics dealt with included Holocaust themes, Jewish history and discrimination. All were explored theatrically.
2008- NYU/New Alternatives for Children Collaboration. Co-lead a workshop with social workers on techniques they can use to better understand their clients which are primarily low-income parents of children with chronic illnesses.
2007- Roundabout Theatre Company. Education Intern. Helped create the supplemental education magazine for school children attending RTC works in the 2007 season. In addition, helped with workshops for Teaching Artists, assisted in overseeing high school interns and escorted groups of school students to plays at RTC.
2006- The Foundry Theatre Company. General Office Intern. Helped with the development of new plays, transcribng, general office duties.
1992-present- Various acting roles in theatre ranging from community to equity. Highlights include Young Chaya in a staged reading of The Flowers That Grew There, Glinda in The Wizard of Oz and Darlene Henshaw in The Diviners.
Chaya Gold has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. After spending an entire life running from her young adulthood marred by the Holocaust, it begins to slowly catch up with her as the disease progresses. As a result, Chaya finds herself catapulted into her past as real to her as the present. As her children and grandchildren come together to care for her, they begin to face their own scars as they put together the puzzle of Chaya's past, a Pandora's box which had been sealed tightly shut--until now. The Flowers That Grew There is a multigenerational story about how trauma can continue to affect families years-and generations-after. It weaves the past and present together in a journey through the main characters' memories.
Flowers received a staged reading at Roy Arias Studios on May 22 & 23rd in New York, NY with the following cast and crew:
Directed by: Jonathan Schmidt
Chaya: Dorrie Barrow
Eva: Mimi Evans
Young Chaya: Rachel Chibnik
Neil: Joe Cummings
Chaim: Shane Regier
Megan: Amanda Aguirrechu
Lila and Various: Kathi Emori
Ashley and Various: Lizzie Hetzer
Anna's freelance work has appeared on various websites from overstock.com to military.net, all of which amount to over 1,000 articles. She is always looking for new clients, especially in the performing arts, health, education, fashion, product descriptions and literature. Anna is adept at a writing on a broad range of topics. Rates may vary per assignment.
Currently, I am interested in parts modeling. Please go to the contact page for any booking information.
Please NOTE: I do not do fetish or "adult" photos.
Shoe Size: 4-6 (narrow)
Ring Size: 4-5
My hands and feet can be used for children as well as adults.
I am based in New York City.
E-mail me directly at
annajamiescanlon_gmail.com or
use the form to your left.
Use my direct e-mail for:
-Inquiries about plays
-Inquiries about freelancing
-Questions
For inquiries about my novels,
please contact my literary agent:
Irene Goodman at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.
Work in progress. Click play below to view a Book Trailer.
16-year-old Rebecca Graber has lived her entire life in a small Amish community in Ohio where everyone either knows or is related to every other Amish person. After participating in the custom of unmarried couples sharing a bed for the night, Rebecca's world suddenly changes. She's been raped by the one person she thought she knew best. As her journey unfolds, she begins to question who she can trust and who she cannot.
Rebecca must find a way to come to terms with the event despite her family's insistence that she ignore the rape and forgive her attacker, as Jesus would have. A visit to the local police station proves ineffective as the officers conclude arresting the rapist would result in an interference between church and state. Based on several accounts from Amish people themselves as well as recalling the author's own Pennsylvania Dutch Heritage, Children of the Most High asks the reader difficult questions. Should the police interfere with the lives of those who have chosen to live in isolation, even if they have broken the law? Is radical forgiveness from the victim an appropriate replacement for justice?
Based on the novel by Jurek Becker
Jakob the Liar is a story of a man in an extraordinary circumstance. The action takes place in a Jewish Ghetto in Poland during World War II. Jakob Heym, a latke vendor, is sent to the SS headquarters office to be disciplined after being out after curfew. While in the office, he overhears a piece of information on the radio: the Russians are not too far away from the ghetto and liberation is at hand! Jakob shares this news with a friend, only to find himself obligated to tell more lies in order to keep up the morale of those in the ghetto. His tales take on a life of their own as this piece explores the theme of very ordinary people in very extraordinary circumstances.
Jakob the Liar was performed in 2006 at Chapman University in conjunction with OC Hillel in Orange, CA. Please note that this performance was done for charity and I do not currently hold the rights to Jurek Beckers novel under his estate.
Jakob the Liar was performed in May 2006 at Chapman University.
Name: Anna Scanlon
Height: 5'1
Residence: New York, NY
Grew up in: San Francisco, California Bay Area
Family: Parents, brother and one dog, Eugene
Favorite Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Favorite Books: Alice in Wonderland, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Secret Garden, Little Women, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Hobbies: theater, writing, fashion,
Favorite music: Gogol Bordello, Elliott Smith, musicals, Motion City Soundtrack, John Mayer, The Beatles, Lady Gaga, Ben Folds, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Feist, Mika, Kate Nash, Neutral Milk Hotel, Michael Jackson, Yelle, anything pretentious and indie
Favorite Movies: Fiddler on the Roof, Paris Je T'aime, The Sound of Music, Little Women, The Secret Garden, The Namesake, Waiting for Guffman, Everything is Illuminated, Defiance
Biggest vice: Fashion and make-up (two...)
First writing experience: an "adaption" of My Girl in the third grade. Also, I wrote a play for my third grade class. That was a big year for me!
Favorite place: New York or Paris
Places lived: San Francisco, New York City, Budapest, Grenoble, France, Athens, Georgia, Los Gatos, CA, Reno, Nevada, Orange, CA.
Favorite food: Peanut butter Puffins or Pinkberry Yogurt
Anna's novels are in the genre of Young Adult. They are currently represented by Irene Goodman of the Irene Goodman agency. Please contact Ms. Goodman directly for publishing inquiries and Anna for all other inquiries.
14-year-old Eva Gold has always known her family was a bit different. Her mother, Aliz, has kept tight-lipped about her past during World War II, including what happened that has left her completely without a family. Her mother's constant avoidance of the subject and fear of doctor's have become the norm in the Gold household--as normal as the weekly episode of The Partridge Family.
When Eva receives devastating news about her health, her mother must come face-to-face with her past, testing Aliz beyond her comfort zone. The multi-POV narrative allows readers to become acquainted with both characters as young girls, learning the tragic secret Aliz holds in her own words.
This young adult novel examines the gap in experiences between parents and children, what it means to keep horrible secrets and the importance of your family--even when they seem a little crazy.
A previous incarnation of this novel was honored as a 2008 semi-finalist in the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award.
