Anna Newell
Acting
Biography
Working as a freelance theatre director directing an eclectic range of professional and community productions. As well as working for many of the Scottish theatre companies, she spent a number of years based at Dundee Rep where she was Associate Director and directed, amongst others, Dracula, The Jungle Book, If the Moon Can Be Believed and My Mother Said I Never Should. She also set up Loadsaweeminsingin, a 40 strong women’s acapella singing group who celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2004 by staging a brand new operetta commissioned for them by the Scottish Arts Council from Dundee singer-songwriter Michael Marra. Work outside Scotland included The Royal Court, Holloway Prison and the Theatre on the Square, Memphis. After directing Revenge by Michael Duke for Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast, she relocated her freelance base to Northern Ireland and in the autumn of 2005 she became the Artistic Director of The Centre for Excellence in Creative and Performing Arts, a new interdisciplinary arts programme at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Known For
A couple's failing relationship implodes when their mountain cabin accidentally gets double booked.
Double Eagle Ranch
In the shadow of Hollywood, a young woman chasing stardom slips into a dreamlike spiral where reality fractures and fame reveals itself as a haunting, living force.
Sweetie
A documentary crew discovers a shocking fact that changes the trajectory of Satan's reinvention.
Mind, Body & Soul
A women takes a journey that questions the boundaries of reality and what is an illusion.
Ascendent
In the toxic fog of endless sunshine and Hollywood hooligans, Los Angeles has always been the melting pot of society. In a city filled with mental illness, the tone of the photographs depict a dream state of West Hollywood and the undertone of urban decay and of how sinister it can be. She is a complicated person and beautifully tragic, Like LA itself, the occupants of this wasteland invite tragedy into their life to feel like everyone else.
Belladonna
Fey Iron, an amicable traveler, confronts her natural urges when she encounters a lone man in the desert. We follow Fey and her older sister Dylan through a day of their life. They are gentle with plants, animals and each other but in a world where the roles of men and women are reversed, can women really be held at fault for the dark side of their God-given tendencies?