Anna is an award winning Director, Writer, Actor, and Producer in New York.

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She was honored by Sanford Meisner with the exclusive rights to edit the Italian edition of "Sanford Meisner On Acting" - "La recitazione" - published in 2007.

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THEATER - FILM and TELEVISION / ACTING

 

Most recently, Anna has played a co-star role in the CBS series EAST NEW YORK, episode 17, Pound of Flesh, opposite Richard Kind.

 

She can be seen in the role of Queen Gertrude of Denmark in the feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.  The multi-award-winning "Hamlet/Horatio" (2021) is now streaming on Apple Tv (iTunes) - Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play, and Tubi.

Awards: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6923850/awards/?ref_=tt_awd .

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She has received a Nomination for Best Actress from the International Festival of Cinema and Technology. In 2015 she played a principal role in Stealing Chanel, a feature directed by Roberto Mitrotti, distributed by Lifetime Network.

 

Anna has also played several leading and major roles on New York City stages (Joyce Soho; St. Peter Church; The Kitchen; Access Theatre; The Equitable Building Auditorium; Theatre for the New City, South Street Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Shetler Theater 54) as well as acting in "Dinner Party," starring Brian Dennehy; and in a special event created for Roberto Benigni, "Inferno Gala

Awards: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161809/awards/?ref_=nm_awd

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FILM / DIRECTING AND PRODUCING

 

Anna's solo-created short "33 Breaths" was a finalist of the 2020 Single-Take Challenge.

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Her film, "Stay" has been included in the Official Selections of the Manhattan Film Festival, the Central Florida Film Festival, The NewFilmmakers New York, and has received a Special Mention from the Ouchy Film Awards Winter 2016. 

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She has produced and co-written "Life After Her," a 30 minutes film shot in New York,  winner of the Platinum Award at the NYC Indie Film Awards 2017. The film has been selected by the Short Corner of the Cannes Film Festival (May 2017) and has also received an Honorable Mention from the Rochester International Film Festival. It has screened at the Grove Film Festival, at the New Hope Film Festival (April 2017), and in July 2017, at the Madrid International Film Festival where it received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress in a Lead Role.

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THEATER / DIRECTING

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As a theater director and producer Anna's work has been daring and experimental, and has been seen at the Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Station; The Kitchen for  a BAM event, The Players Club; Shetler Theatre 54; Joyce Soho; St. Peter's Church; American Museum of Natural History; Theater for the New City; and Access Theater.

 

Anna has been the Artistic Director of BdA the arts [enter] a theatre-film laboratory in New York. Collaborations staged with Domenica Cameron-Scorsese; Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon; Susan Batson, Brian Dennehy, and Roberto Benigni, among others. 

 

Anna has Co-Produced "Tribeca in Rome" - a cultural partnership between the Tribeca Film Festival and the Rome Film Festival ‘s first edition- including the Steps and Stars Award received by Robert De Niro. She has also produced Discovering the New Italian Cinema - a film festival presented at the Quad Cinema.

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COACHING and TEACHING

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As an Acting Coach, she consulted with Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Alessandra Mastronardi, Kick Kennedy, and Santigold. She was the on-set Acting Coach of "Yelo," a short film directed by Adrien Boublil (Cannes 2013.)

 

Anna is a member of the Senior Faculty of The Acting Studio, New York, Inc. and of the New York Film Academy (NYFA.) She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Film MFA Program and at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema (CUNY).

 

Latest Press:

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https://www.iodonna.it/attualita/famiglia-e-lavoro/2023/02/20/al-lavoro-con-anna-maria-cianciulli-insegnante-recitazione-new-york/

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 https://thevillagesun.com/hamlet-horatio-gives-shakespeares-longest-play-a-new-twist-at-a-reasonable-length

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https://www.artsmanagementmagazine.com/article/anna-maria-cianciulli-stealing-the-screen/

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Apple Podcast: How Did They Get There - Episode 29

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