Annie Morrison

Ann is an award-winning actress, writer, teacher and director for over 45 years. As an actress she starred on Broadway in Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along directed by Harold Prince (1982 Theatre World Award), and in LoveMusik (2007); London’s West End in Peg; Off-Broadway in the musical Goblin Market (Drama Desk Award Nom.) and joined the original cast of Forbidden Broadway. Nationally, she has starred in Musical of Musicals, The Musical, Sondheim on Sondheim, Into the Woods, Peter Pan, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Oliver! Sunset Boulevard, On A Clear Day, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Good News, Embarrassments, Anyone Can Whistle, plus many many more. Locally she starred in Noel & Gertie, Shadowlands, Ruthless! I Do, I Do!. At the Asolo Rep, Ann has played 7 seasons in 1940’s Radio Hour, Swingtime Canteen, All I Ever Learned I Learned In Kindergarten, Murderers, My Fair Lady, Beatsville, Sound Of Music. The quintessential solo artist, Ann has performed cabaret shows in major venues across the country, most recently at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC with acclaimed solo show Merrily From Center Stage. She won a Best Actress Award for her solo play Linda Lovely Goes to Broadway in the United Solo Festival in NYC, and appeared there again with her solo play Word Painting: Soliloquies Around an Easel. Directing credits include both her solo play Trevor’s Fire starring Blake Walton and his solo play Leading Men at the United Solo Festival; large musicals The Secret Garden, Merrily We Roll Along, On A Clear Day, Smoke On the Mountain as well as many plays and revues. Four of Ann’s solo plays are published. She is the Co-founder of Kaleidoscope, a musical theatre workshop for persons with developmental disabilities and Co-founder/ Artistic Director of SaraSolo Productions, dedicated to the development and presentation of solo theatre arts. She can be heard on original cast recordings and studio recordings such as Merrily We Roll Along, Peg, Goblin Market, Good News, I remember Mama, Lady Be Good, Sing Before Breakfast, and The Road to Ruin. She is the recipient of several HANDY, SAMMY, and SARASOTA MAGAZINE Awards as well as the JOHN RINGLING TOWERS AWARD, FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE: OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL THEATRE and the 2022 BISTRO AWARD for her solo musical Merrily From Center Stage. Ann plays herself in the 2017 documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened.