Anna Simone Scott

Award winning writer/director, Anna received a 2021 Daytime Emmy® Nomination for her latest film, Take My Heart, in the Outstanding Daytime Fiction Program. The film has been a favorite at Oscar and BAFTA qualifying Film Festivals. She is also an actor whose career has spanned several continents. Dual American/Irish-Australian citizen, also able to work in UK. Films that Anna has written and starred in/or written and directed have screened at Academy Qualifying Festivals such as Raindance, Rhode Island, LA Shorts International Film Festival, The Micheaux Film Festival and Pan African Film Festival. Theatre trained in London and Sydney, Anna's first roles were on Television and Film in Australia where she worked with legendary actors Jack Thompson, Bill Hunter, Chris Heywood and esteemed directors Phillip Noyce and Ken Cameron. Anna also became the well known face of the Colgate commercials and other Clio Award winning commercials. This was followed by lead roles on stage throughout Britain as well as in NY and LA along with film and TV roles. Her directorial debut film, The Aerial Girl, produced by Motherhorse Prods; garnered six awards and four nominations. It screened at 40 Film Festivals worldwide and aired on PBS. Anna is the recipient of the Platinum Award for Best Film and Screenplay from BAFTA/LA Short Film Members' Festival for her film, Chasing Chekhov. (writer-producer-star). Her most recent film, Take My Heart, will be woven into a TV pilot, The Other Day, a series of LA stories. Her previous film, Finding Momma, had successful screenings at Garden State Film Festival and NYC International Film Festival in April 2016, garnering two nominations. Her next project is the feature film, Art of Deceit, which she has written and will direct. In London her first job was with the Young Peoples Playwright's Program at The Royal Court Theatre. Favorite roles in Repertory Theatre include Sarah in The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn and many classics as well as new plays in London at theatres such as The ICA and The Roundhouse. In New York Anna studied with venerable teachers, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis. She subsequently played lead roles in Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows; such as Elizabeth in The Crucible with The Ensemble Company at the Roundabout Theatre. Anna attended workshops at The Actor's Studio in Los Angeles, studying with Martin Landau and Shelly Winters for several years. Her theatre credits in LA include the Theatre East and Complex Theatre productions of her play, Chasing Chekhov; Lost in the Movies at The Court theatre; and Anon by Kate Robin (Writer: Six feet Under) with The Echo Theatre Company. Anna's other award winning films include: Coming Into Money and The Red Scarf. The films were produced by her film company VisionFire Films Inc; which she operates with her partner: producer/director Peter Sands. Their combined films have screened at over seventy film festivals worldwide and sold to Television. VisionFire Films has several projects in development including Art of Deceit; Tough 2 Love and the TV pilot concept: The Other Day (Elo Otro Dia) Anna's latest play, The Grass Couch, was developed by a Broadway theatre company in New York and is moving to the next phase as well as being adapted into a screenplay. Memberships: BAFTA; SAG-AFTRA, AEA; The Dramatists Guild of America, Women in Media.