- Anne Fielding is an Obie Award-winner for Distinguished Performance for the role of Sasha in the first American production of Chekhov's Ivanov, which she was invited to recreate for the CBC television production of the play in Toronto. With the American Shakespeare Festival Company in Stratford, Connecticut, she appeared in productions of: Antony and Cleopatra, starring Katherine Hepburn; The Winter's Tale; Richard II, starring Richard Basehart; and Henry IV, Part I, starring Roy Scheider, Hal Holbrook, and Sada Thompson. She played Juliet in the New York Shakespeare Festival school tour, directed by Joseph Papp, and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream in Central Park.
Anne Fielding had the honor to attend Aesthetic Realism classes taught by Eli Siegel beginning in 1953, and she studies now in professional classes for consultants and associates taught by Chairman Ellen Reiss. Ms. Fielding was born in New York City; graduated from the School of Performing Arts where she studied with Sidney Lumet; later studied acting with Michael Howard and musical comedy with Charles Nelson Reilly. She is a member of Actors' Equity and AFTRA, and one of the authors of the book Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There ("I Believe This about Acting"). She taught acting based on Aesthetic Realism at the HB Studio in Manhattan.
Off-Broadway at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Ms. Fielding portrayed Mary Boyle in Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey. Other off-Broadway productions include Montserrat by Lillian Hellman; The Beaver Coat, by Gerhardt Hauptmann; Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw; in summer theatre she played The Girl in The Fantastiks. Anne Fielding created the role of Doris Diminish in the musical Goodbye Profit System, by Martha Baird and Tom Shields, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
Among roles Ms. Fielding has played in productions by the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company of Eli Siegel's lectures on the drama are: Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House; Othello, in Shakespeare's Othello; Lady Sneerwell and Sir Peter Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal; Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; Arnolphe in Molière's The School for Wives; Fay Fromkin in Arthur Kober's Having Wonderful Time; Cassius in Julius Caesar; the Nurse in Strindberg's The Father.
She is teacher of the bi-weekly Acting, Life, & the Opposites class at the Foundation, and one of the instructors-with Barbara Allen, flutist and Edward Green, composer-of The Opposites in Music class. She is also a consultant with There Are Wives and one of the teachers of the monthly Understanding Marriage! class at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AestheticRealismTheatreCo., 2018
- SpouseSheldon Kranz(1956 - 1980)
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