Annie Evans
Redding, CT
Annie Evans is a playwright and children's television writer, most notably Sesame Street.
Biography

ANNIE EVANS: The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center:  NTI (Fall, 1981), National Playwrights Conference (1989 with Mapping Uranium), National Puppetry Conference (1993-2006, guest playwright/dramaturg).  Annie spent many years working with New York Stage and Film Company and this past summer her new play ONE GOOD EGG was part of their readings weekend.  She was active for many years with Manhattan Class Company having two plays in their Class1Act Festivals and was a member of the Circle Repertory Lab and Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit. Her play Ghost Stories is published by Samuel French and has been produced around the world.  Funny Girls Coping with Boys, a collection of one-act plays, is available online and three of her monologues are published in Heinemann Press anthologies.  Her piece Sleepwalking was turned into a radio play and performed on WPLR in New York and she wrote the screenplay version of her one-act Forgetting Frankie for New Line Cinema.  Her television work includes: Sesame Street (PBS, 13 Daytime Emmy Awards, Aurora Award), Oswald the Octopus (Nickelodeon), Once Upon a Tree (PBS, Discovery), Big Bag (Cartoon Network), Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (Nickelodeon), Out of the Box (Disney Channel), Jojo’s Circus (Disney Channel), Pinky Dinky Doo (Noggin), Pocoyo (Granada TV) P. King Duckling (Little Airplane Productions) and currently Pinkalicious (WGBH). She was the story editor for Sisumpur (Bangladesh Sesame Street), Galli Galli Sim Sim (India Sesame Street) and Jalan Sesama (Indonesian Sesame Street). She has written and story edited Sesame Street stage musicals for Sesame Street Live, Sesame Place, SeaWorld, Busch Garden, Beaches, Universal Studios, and for touring companies in Germany, the Netherlands, China, Australia and Singapore.  She received a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and two fellowships to the MacDowell Colony.  Annie is a graduate of Brown University.

Agent Information

Lisa Marber: Atlas Talent: 212-730-4500

Plays

by Annie Evans

When a clinic offers a contest to win a free in-vitro fertilization, three couples who’ve gone broke trying to get pregnant pin their hopes on making a video that proves they deserve the prize. By delving into their failures to make a baby, unexpected friendships form, truths are revealed and new paths discovered in this comedy about the heartbreak of infertility and the dream of becoming loving parents. 

Cast:
Nikki Bookbinder– Female, 43 – White James Bookbinder – Male, 43 – White Myra Williams – Female, mid/late-thirties – Black Chris Williams – Male, mid/late-thirties – Black Syd Bernstein – Female, mid-thirties – Asian Adam Bernstein – Male, mid-thirties – Jewish Dr. Ashok – Male, middle-aged - Indian Nurse, Therapist, Masseuse, Mother – Woman, White or Latino/30s-40s