Macbeth - Kew Gardens

Anna Burgess

Malcolm

Anna recently completed a national tour of The Mousetrap with Shake & Stir Theatre Co and XRoads, and returned to the role of Beatrice in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of Much Ado About Nothing, following a successful 2023 season.

Her recent theatre work includes Social Dance by Laura McKenzie at Theatre Works; Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet with the Australian Shakespeare Company; Pramkicker at Theatre Works; Meat Market (Dirty Pennies); Savage in Limbo (All Sorts Productions); and the national tour of Bad Jews.

Anna won a Broadway World Sydney Award for Best Actress for her performance as Melody in Vass Productions’ Women of Troy, and has also appeared in the national tour of The 39 Steps directed by Terence O’Connell (Hit Productions), God of Carnage (Chapel Off Chapel), the Australian tour of Goodbye Miss Monroe (Metro Arts Brisbane and Chapel Off Chapel), Inconsolable (Mechanics Institute), and Groucho (Adelaide Fringe Festival).

She was a member of the original Australian cast of Mel Brooks’ The Producers (Gordon Frost Organisation), and has performed in Rigoletto, Macbeth, and The Barber of Seville for Opera Australia, as well as Crazy for You, Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, 42nd Street, The Pyjama Game, and Anything Goes with The Production Company.

Screen credits include La Brea, Channel 7’s biopic Olivia, The Wheel, Any Questions for Ben, The Caretaker, Love’s Brother, Neighbours, Last Man Standing, Screen Stars, and Thank God You’re Here.

Training: Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Deakin University), Lee Strasberg Institute (New York), Melbourne Actors Lab, 16th Street, and masterclasses with Larry Moss and Ian Rickson.