Anna Stone
Musical Theatre, Theatre, Television and Film Actress
May 2011: I'm in the latest episode of Downsized, a web series written and directed by Daryn Strauss. I play Brenda, a reluctant pageant mom.
April 2011: I just shot a co-star on the Prime Suspect pilot [that just got picked up by NBC - 5/15/11]. I play a reporter and exchange a line with Maria Bello.
April 2011: I'll be in two episodes of The View this month doing product placement for Secret and Oil of Olay Body Products. Check me out during Hot Topics!
August 2009: The NY Fringe play I’m in, A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage ©1959, has just been invited to the Encore Series! Come see this great piece at the Soho Playhouse in September.
April 2009: We’ve gotten some lovely notices for Tartuffe. Here are some soundbytes about yours truly:
Anna Stone’s saucy maid Dorine is the unquestioned star of the play’s first act. Stone dusts off the clichéd “wise servant” character with a fervor and precision that’s a delight to watch; she seizes upon the rhyming scheme with particular gaiety, delivering her lines with a tart sensibility that belies her pedestrian position. Better still, she has a gift for slapstick, employing her feather duster as a rapier to cut through the silliness of her noble family’s stilted manners.
— Naples Daily News
It is Ms. Stone, as the maid Dorine, who, in many ways, holds this play together. Like Cleante, she’s also the voice of reason, but she expresses it in a much saucier way, freely talking back to her master. (She argues that if he marries his daughter to Tartuffe, it will cause her to stray with other men, and those sins will be on his head.) Her asides to the audience are hysterical, and it is she that the other characters turn to for help. She knows everything that’s going on in the household, and is not averse to eavesdropping when it suits her purpose.
— Florida Weekly, Fort Meyers
Anna Stone as the wise maid Dorine (played with sly deadpan, comic wit and an expert use of the feather duster).
— News-Press.com
