Meet the Faculty

Playwright, Director, Professor

After graduating from San Francisco State University with an MFA in Playwriting, Anna Budd wrote and performed several monologue plays at the 1999 and 2000 San Francisco Fringe Festivals. Her full-length play, What Burns, was a finalist in the 2003 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, and was short-listed in the O'Neill National Playwrights’ Conference. Her one-act play The Woman In Armor was produced in the 2005 Bay Area One Act Festival. Her short play Odd Scraps From an Extinguished America was produced in 2003 by the Isis Arts Collective at the Exit Theatre.

During this time she directed for Three Wise Monkeys and for The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, where she also served as Literary Manager for several years. Her full-length play Brain Meets Brick Wall, A Love Story was selected by a Theatre Bay Area for the 2010 Bay Area Playwrights’ Showcase.

In 2006 she wrote and directed Lysistrata Now, an adaptation of Aristophanes’ classic play, at the College of the Siskiyous, where she served as interim Theatre Arts Professor. In 2007 she accepted a position as Professor of Theatre Arts at Cañada College in the Bay Area, where she wrote, directed, and produced numerous original plays, including The Famous Female Duelist of France, EmergenciPhone,  and Two Guys Lookin’ at the Same Thing. In 2012, she directed & produced EmergenciPhone at the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

Anna Budd continues to teach acting, playwriting, directing, and new play development at Cañada College, where she is looking forward to many more years of writing, directing, and producing her own work, side-by-side with her amazing students.