Anne Galjour's one-woman plays have been praised for their originality of the writing as well as excellence of performance. Originally from Southeastern Louisiana, she has drawn on her Cajun background to create vivid characters and enthralling narratives.

Hurricane premiered at Climate Theatre in San Francisco where it received stellar reviews and played to sold out audiences for months. For Hurricane she received the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Emerging Playwright. The ATCA selected it as one of the best 3 plays in regional theatre, 1994. Additional honors for Hurricane include Bay Area Theater Critics Circle - best solo performance, S F Solo Mio Festival - outstanding solo artist, S F Bay Guardian "Goldie" for outstanding performance artist - 1993. Berkeley Repertory Theatre commissioned her to write Mauvais Temps (part 2 of Hurricane). Aligator Tales - Hurricane and Mauvais Temps premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and went on to Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She won the Will Glickman Playwriting Award and Bay Area Theater Critics Award - best original script for Mauvais Temps. The Krewe of Neptune and Aligator Tales (4 Dramatic Short Stories) both premiered at Climate Theatre in San Francisco. Her solo work has been presented at Theater for the New City in New York, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, New City Theater in Seattle, Redwood Cultural Work in Oakland, Aurora Theatre Co. in Berkeley, California Plaza Presents in Los Angeles, and numerous college and theatre festivals across the United States.

Anne Galjour's playwriting credits include OKRA which premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in 2004, then moved to Southern Rep and later to True Brew Theatre, where it continued to play to sold out houses in New Orleans up until the night before Hurricane Katrina hit. It reopened in March at True Brew. Her children's play The Queen of the Sea was commissioned at produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Her latest play Bird in the Hand was commissioned by Z Space Studio. She has recently been commissioned by Dartmouth College to write a new play tentatively titled New England Class Divide. She teaches playwriting in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Excerpts of Aligator Tales are found in EXTREME EXPOSURES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOLO PERFORMANCE TEXTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Theatre Communications Group, 2000, BURNS AND MANTLE THEATRE YEARBOOK FOR BEST PLAY, 1994. Excerpts of The Krewe of Neptune appeared in AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE. Le Boucherie appeared in CALLBOARD MAGAZINE.

Member of:
Actors Equity Association
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists