Anna hails from the Michigan mitten and is a Los Angeles based writer, director, and producer. She is a SeriesFest & Shondaland 2022 Women Directing Mentorship Semi-Finalist. Her debut feature film Disfluency, starring Libe Barer (Sneaky Pete), Ariela Barer (Marvel's Runaways), and Chelsea Alden (Shameless) won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the Austin Film festival among others. The film was developed at the inaugural Jim Cummings' Short to Feature Lab where Anna was one of ten fellows competitively selected for her short film. Disfluency is also the recipient of the Duplass Brother's Hometown Heroes "Oh Shit!" Grant and a selection of 10th US in Progress Wroclaw. Anna graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's college of Literature Science & the Arts with a concentration in screen arts and cultures.