our collaborators: Anne Galjour

Anne Galjour
Bio | Current Project | What people are saying | Photos | PDFs of articles

playwright and performer

works include:
Alligator Tales
Hurricane
Mauvais Temps
The Krewe of Neptune
Okra
Stars at Night (in development)

Bio
Anne Galjour, originally from Louisiana has been a resident of SF for 24 years. OKRA was originally commissioned by Seattle Repertory Theatre. Anne received a TCG National Theatre Residency grant to develop THE KITCHEN at Brava! for Women in the Arts. Ms. Galjour received a Wattis Residency at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in June, 2001 to work on STARS AT NIGHT. Her children’s play THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, commissioned by Berkeley Rep, premiered in Jan. 1999. In 2001 Z Space Studio produced a revised version of her one-woman play MAUVAIS TEMPS as part of their Z Festival at Actors Theatre in Santa Cruz. In June, 1996 she premiered MAUVAIS TEMPS (part two of the HURRICANE trilogy) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It ran with HURRICANE - directed by Sharon Ott. The two stories were reworked and retitled ALLIGATOR TALES. It ran Off Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club, in Louisville, and at Seattle Rep. ALLIGATOR TALES is included in EXTREME EXPOSURE - An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts From The 20th Century. Anne is a recipient of the Will Glickman play writing award for MAUVAIS TEMPS. It was also selected as best original script by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. Her one-woman plays HURRICANE and THE KREWE OF NEPTUNE have premiered at Climate Theatre in SF. HURRICANE has also been presented at Theater for the New City in NY, the Magic Theatre in SF, New City Theater in Seattle, in Oakland, Berkeley, LA and most recently at South Lafourche High School in Louisiana. It has been twice produced by the Solo Mio Festival in SF. The American Theatre Critics Association cited HURRICANE as one of the 3 outstanding plays produced outside of NYC in 1993. The ATCA awarded Ms. Galjour the first annual Osborne Award for Emerging Playwright for HURRICANE. In addition to these national honors for HURRICANE she received the Solo Performance Award from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, the Solo Mio Festival Award, and the SF Bay Guardian Award for Outstanding Performance Artist. Anne teaches play writing in the Creative Writing Department at SF State University.

Current Project
Anne is currently workshopping Stars at Night, a two-person play set in the Bay Area. The piece explores the natural world, people in migration and a song sparrow with a broken wing.

What people are saying
"Ms. Galjour's text has a sweep that is both novelistic and cinematic. She is an actress who slips in and out of character with seamless ease . . . It is meant as a high praise to report that several days after seeing Alligator Tales, I was no long sure of what the actress herself looks like."
- Vincent Canby, New York Times

"Imagine Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor acting out their stories instead of just writing them down and you have an inkling of what Galjour is up to."
- Misha Berson, Seattle Times

"Galjour and her characters are as irresistable as the Cajun dishes that frequently spice her monologue."
- Dick Schaap, ABC News New York

"Galjour is a magician with language . . . this is brilliant, unforgettable theatre."
- Mari Coates, SF Weekly

Anne Galjour doesn’t only make us see and hear her characters. We smell and taste them too, in a sumptuous flow of Southern language filled with vivid imagery."
- Steve Winn, SF Chronicle

Photos
For photos of Anne and her work, click here. To download high-res images, please select the thumbnail you would like and, once the larger image has loaded on the right hand side, click the "Download Original" link above it.

PDFs of reviews
Feature on Hurricane from SF Chronicle
Hurricane Review from SF Chronicle
Announcement of Glickman Award
Nomination for Best American Play