Anna Kohler
Anna Kohler (alternative spellings: Anna Köhler or Anna Koehler) is a German-American theater actress, director and translator. She is currently (since September 2010) a Senior Lecturer in Theater Arts[1] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Early life
She was born in
Université de Paris VIII, Vincennes. A collaboration with Stuart Sherman (artist)
brought her to New York in 1982.
Career
As a performer, Köhler has worked with
Wooster Group; she was full time member of the group from 1983 to 1993. In 2003, she reprised her role as Natalya in the Wooster Group's revival of Brace Up!; her performance was praised in The New Yorker as the "emotional center" of the show.[3] More recently, she appeared in Richard Maxwell's "Ode to the Man Who Kneels".[4] Her film work includes Hal Hartley's The Book of Life, Bruno de Almeida's On the Run with Michael Imperioli, and uncredited appearances in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, as well as "Sex and the City" (Episode 6: Secret Sex.)[5]
As a translator, Köhler has translated works from English to German as well as from German to English; her translation of
Goethe Institut Theater Library)[7]
into English, and several plays by Richard Foreman and Richard Maxwell into German.
References
- ^ "MIT biography". mta.mit.edu.
- ^ "Jahresmagazin 2002/03 – Im Hebbel am längeren Hebel". November 14, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14.
- ^ Als, Hilton. "Reality Theatre". The New Yorker.
- ^ Brantley, Ben (November 6, 2007). "The Land of the Big Sky and the Deep Inner Void (Published 2007)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Sex and the City". HBO. 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ^ "Tanz und Theater – Goethe-Institut". www.goethe.de.