Anne Bogart

Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Skidmore College, Bard College, and Cornish College. She was a recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, the Richard B. Fisher Award, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received the 2016 Alfred Drake Award from Brooklyn College. Recent works with SITI include Radio Christmas Carol, Falling & Loving, The Bacchae, Chess Match, The Theater is a Blank Page, Steel Hammer, Persians, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Freshwater, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, The Radio Play, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Miss Julie, and Orestes. Operas include Tristan and Isolde, The Handmaid’s Tale, Alcina, Macbeth, Norma, Carmen, I Capuleti e iMontecchi, Nicholas and Alexandra, Marina: A Captive Spirit, Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins. Bogart is the author of six books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then, You Act, Conversations with Anne, What’s the Story and most recently, The Art of Resonance.

Dancers on stage
'A Rite'

2013

Actors in period clothing dancing onstage
'Steel Hammer'

A collaboration with Julia Wolfe and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, photos by Richard Termine, 2015

Theatre Professor and Head of the Directing Concentration Anne Bogart will receive the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Theatre Professor and Directing Concentration Head Anne Bogart has reunited with famed avant-garde La MaMa resident theatre group, Talking Band, to direct Existentialism, running through March 10, 2024.

Theater director Anne Bogart draws connections between visual art, performance theory, neuroscience, music, and architecture in her new book.

The Art of Resonance, the latest book written by Professor Anne Bogart, will be published September 23, 2021.

Alumna Nadia Foskolou ’08 translates The Viewpoints Book by professor Anne Bogart and recent adjunct Tina Landau into Greek.

The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’ CultureTalk collaborated with SITI Company’s Talking into the Future dialogues for a new series which “activates creative friction and bold questions, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms, and investigating the challenges of our time.”