Anna Dunbar is an actress, comedian, writer, filmmaker, and theatre technician born in central Mississippi.

She attended Samford University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of the Arts degree in theatre performance and directing. Throughout her years at Samford, she received many performance, technical, and design opportunities, including participating in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a performer. Throughout her college years, she developed her skillsets in performance, improvisational comedy, lighting design, directing, stage management, sketch writing, producing, and running deck crew. She wrote, directed, and produced her first full-length show for her senior capstone project, Sketch Me If You Can!. She was also an original member of the improv troupe Mr. Howard on Samford’s campus.

Her sketch writings have been on various stages including multiple at The Second City Training Center (Chicago, IL) and in The Mary Scruggs Works By Women Festival. Anna has performed, directed, designed, stage managed, tech directed, produced, and deck crewed for various professional shows in the United States and the United Kingdom. She has worked music camps, theatre camps, and youth camps all around the southeastern United States as well.

Anna studied at The Second City Training Center in their Comedy Studies Program, their Writing Program, and their Improv Immersion Program. She’s also studied improv at iO Chicago and graduated from their improv program, as well as studying improv at The Annoyance Theatre. She has studied under many notable instructors including Susan Messing, Kurt Naebig, Rachael Mason, Adal Rafai, Norm Holly, Ryan Archibald, Neil Jacobson, Rob Kozlowski, Jeff Griggs, Jen Ellison, Matthew Van Colton, and Lisa Linke. With friends from these classes, she performed on multiple improv teams in Chicago including John Claude Van Gogh and Sonic Screwdriver.

Anna released her first full length web series, Scratch That!, found on YouTube. She wore many hats in the series including Writer, Creator, Producer, 1st AD, Casting Director, Editor (3 episodes), and social media representative. She has expanded her film crew experience by working as a gaffer, grip, 1st AD, and Production Assistant on student films with the Harold Ramis Film School, iO Comedy Network, and in independent films. She’s in post-production for her second web series Bottled Up, in which she was the Writer, Director, Production Designer, and Producer of.

Even though she is a performer, Anna has worked nearly all facets of theatre onstage, backstage, and front of house, including working Front of House for Broadway in Chicago and Blue Man Group.

Anna is a regular contract employee at New Stage Theatre, where she is a “jack-of-all-trades”, having performed, designed, and run numerous regional productions.

She moved to the United Kingdom to Deputy Stage Manage a new English adaption of the French play Ubu Cocu. The adaptation has been accepted into London play festivals and hopes to continue on into Fringe festivals around the UK.