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As the consummate professional, Ann Starbuck finds the grounded, and often hilarious reality in the characters she plays and she has a great laugh!

Theater Week said about her solo show, GIRL SCOUT REJECTS, “displays excellent comedic timing and a subtle play of emotions as she portrays this slightly maladjusted character.” And LA Weekly said, “harrowingly beautiful and bittersweet…playing an endearing misfit.”

A dream of hers came true in June 2014, performing another solo show in Los Angeles...TIANANMEN ANNIE - a comedic look at finding your Chinese soul. It is her true story of living in Beijing in 1988-1989 as a student and working for CNN as a translator during the Tiananmen Square Uprising.

In the past couple of years she's also been playing Improv with the good folks at UCB and booked a great GUEST STAR on the critically acclaimed web series GOLDEN CALIFORNIA.

Ann's career started in theatre two decades ago. She has a BFA in Acting from the University of Colorado, and her first professional job was at The Colorado Shakespeare Festival. After that came two national tours, two Off-Broadway plays and a dozen other shows in NYC.

And she feels like this is her ingénue time! And by ingénue, she means the quirky aunt, the officious secretary, and the sassy diner waitress.

Check out her website - www.annstarbuck.com

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United Solo Concludes 2015 Run; Winners Announced


 The ten-week run of the United Solo Festival, featuring 150 productions from six continents, concluded on Sunday, November 22 at Theatre Row in New York, where the festival is a resident company. Beginning with its opening night on September 17, United Solo presented between two and five shows every day, in a vast array of categories. Over 80 of the shows were sold out, and nearly 30 were presented in the ENCORE program, which features companies returning to the festival after successful performances in previous years.

BWW Review: Ann Starbuck Shares Her Personal Journey as TIANANMEN ANNIE


In June 1989, Ann Starbuck was an American student on a year's sojourn in China where she was also working as a production assistant for CNN. When pro-democracy demonstrations broke out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, she suddenly found herself swept up in the middle of historic events while assisting camera crews; escorting a dissident to a news interview; making forbidden friendships. She was there and now shares her story to remind us how important it is to speak up for human rights.

Ann Starbuck's Solo Show to Open 6/2 at Hudson Guild Theater


At the young of age 21, Ann Starbuck faced a very grave situation on the other side of the world. A college student studying abroad and nearly fluent in Chinese, she had been recruited by the CNN Beijing Bureau to assist with language translation and navigating the local scene.

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