Anne DeAcetis

Anne DeAcetis is best known for playing strong women. She is an actor, singer and writer. Anne was born in Queens, NY and grew up on Long Island. As a youth performer, she was highly active with the Port Washington Play Troupe, New York State's oldest amateur theater company (founded 1927) which first developed performers like Jonathan Goldstein (Drake & Josh), Eaddy Mays (Teen Wolf) and the late filmmaker John Fasano (Another 48 Hours, Tombstone). She studied English and Theater at Mount Holyoke College, then moved to Chicago with six fellow artists to found Division 13 Productions, a non-profit theater company that produced in both Chicago and New York over the course of a decade. Anne earned her Acting MFA at the California Institute of the Arts, ranked by Newsweek/The Daily Beast as America's top college for students in the arts. It was during her time at Cal Arts that she explored on-camera work for the first time (including co-writing and starring in the comedy short "Darla") and began developing her solo performance, "VIOLETTE, VIOLETTE," now a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Anne is now once again based in the NYC area and is a sometime teaching artist, within formal educational environments (Essex County College) and without (assistant TA to Jonathan Goldstein for his master class). An experienced jazz/folk/rock vocalist, she also performs regularly around NYC as a lead singer for Willie and the Wolves (retro Latin and R&B, www.willieandthewolves.com) and The James Beaudreau Band (classic folk/rock, www.thejbb.com).