Anna Newell

Working as a freelance theatre director directing an eclectic range of professional and community productions. As well as working for many of the Scottish theatre companies, she spent a number of years based at Dundee Rep where she was Associate Director and directed, amongst others, Dracula, The Jungle Book, If the Moon Can Be Believed and My Mother Said I Never Should.

She also set up Loadsaweeminsingin, a 40 strong women’s acapella singing group who celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2004 by staging a brand new operetta commissioned for them by the Scottish Arts Council from Dundee singer-songwriter Michael Marra. Work outside Scotland included The Royal Court, Holloway Prison and the Theatre on the Square, Memphis.