Threes Anna


Threes Anna is a novelist, theatre and film maker.

Biography

Threes Anna is trained as a visual artist. In 1985, Anna was engaged in theatre company Dogtroep, specialized in site specific theatre. In 1989, she becomes artistic leader of the company. Under her leadership, Dogtroep creates over fifty performances all over the world. The performances are developed into big visual spectacles with an international cast. Owing to the extent and complexity of the shows, she doesn't perform herself from 1993 onwards, and concentrated on script writing and directing. Apart from her theatre work, she creates and produces documentaries about several different artists and Dogtroep. After a tragic accident in 1998, in which her partner in life and colleague Marco Biagioni dies, Threes Anna stops with Dogtroep and begins to develop feature films and writing novels.
Since 2003 Threes Anna has published seven novels, De kus van de weduwe, Motormoeder, De stille stad, Vogel kan niet vliegen, Wachten op de moesson , Spain, Germany and Canada, Het laatste land in 2012 and Paradijsvogel in 2016.
In 2007 Threes Anna's feature film debut, The Bird Can’t Fly is released on the international market, an English spoken full-length movie, that she wrote, directed and co-produced. The American actress Barbara Hershey has the leading role, the rest of the cast and crew is south-african. The movie had its première on the San Sebastian International Film Festival and won several prizes.
In 2012 her second feature film is launched: Silent City, playing in Japan.
In 2014 her short film Platina Blues, 40 minutes in a one hand-held shot, on the composition of the same name by Dutch rock star Thé Lau, is launched.

Prizes

Threes Anna's film debut The Bird Can't Fly won these prizes:

Literature