Biography
Anne Marie Cummings is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's drama program. She has received four Daytime Emmy nominations for her one-take TV series "Conversations in L.A.": two for Outstanding Writing, one for Outstanding Directing, and one for Outstanding Lead Actress. She also received a Best Directing Award from the Indie Series Awards and three Indie Series Awards nominations for this same series: Best Drama Series, Best Writing, Best Lead Actress.
After being involved in the theatre most of her adult life (as an actress, director, writer, artistic director, and producer) she moved to Los Angeles (in 2016) to explore television and film.
Anne Marie spent 30 years in the theatre as a professional actress (working with Tony-award winning directors such as Doug Hughes); a playwright (Off and Off-Off-Broadway); and director and artistic director of her own theatre company. In its final years, her Upstate New York theatre company moved from a black box theatre into a movie theatre where she began to film her plays and the plays of well-known playwrights. This was the beginning of her new direction launching her avant-garde theatre work off the stage directly onto the screen To help her reach her full potential as a writer, when Anne Marie arrived to L.A., she, for the first time in her life, formally studied writing with acclaimed television writer, Ron Osborn (the TV show "Moonlighting") and wrote her first feature, "Eat Bitter, Taste Sweet." However, it was Ron's hard-core teaching style, and inspiration from playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Yasmina Reza, and Neil LaBute, that pushed Anne Marie to churn out "Conversations in L.A." on her very own.
With "Conversations in L.A.", Anne Marie has intuitively brought together all of her vast experiences as an actress, writer, and director by organically merging her vision of theatre onto film with unique, single-camera episodes - all highly choreographed and all quite daring in their own right. No stranger to embracing an entrepreneurial spirit, she paid for this entire project by taking a huge financial leap of faith - - selling her home in Upstate New York.
Anne Marie began acting on stage at the age of six, and after performing in a dozen or more professional plays by the age of 16, she attended the highly acclaimed drama program at Carnegie Mellon University. During her summers at Carnegie, she continued to study theatre at Northwestern University and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. There she studied with some of the greats such as Simon Callow, Jeremy Irons, the late Peggy Ashcroft, and the late Sir John Gielgud.
