Anna Pettersson is an actress, a playwright and a director. She is also a doctoral student at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Since April 1, 2017 she is the artistic director of August Strindbergs own theatre in Stockholm: Strindbergs Intima Teater.

As an actress she has played the title role in Hedda Gabler, the angel in Angels In America at the Stockholm City Theatre, Boston Marriage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and has been working with Swedens leading dramatists Lars Norén and Kristina Lugn. She has toured eleven countries with her monologue Miss Julie (2012-2015) and won several awards, including “Actor of Europe” (2013). As a director she has been directing several plays, among others: The Seagull by Tjechov, The Misanthrope by Molière, Hedda Gabler and The Wild duck by Ibsen, The house of Bernarda Alba by Lorca and Alice in Wonderland by Caroll.

She has held workshops and acting classes at The Central Academy of Drama and Penghao Theatre in Beijing (2017 and 2013), The Market Theatre Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa (2012) and The National Theater in Seoul, South Korea (2012).

In 1999 she received the Thaila Award and she has also received two scholarships from The Swedish Academy. She was awarded Dagens Nyheters Culture Award, TCO’s Culture Award and the Swedish Section of International Association of Theatre Critics Theatre Award for her performance Miss Julie by August Strindberg.