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“...Zander has eyes that pierce and the ability to register an overwhelming number of emotions at once...”
Enter the afterbirth at Anne Zander is MOTHER, a postpartum comedy!
Portland’s physical comedy powerhouse brings her “raw and primal and side-splittingly funny” solo show to a town near you!
From the mind that created the “painfully funny” smash-hit JUICEBOX (Official Selection 2020 HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival), and the body that birthed twins 3 years ago, comes a solo show that is clown, character, truth and fantasy, all rolled into one woman, dancing to the beat of her own breast pump.
Catch the only postpartum comedy that audiences are calling, “sexy,” “poignant,” “genius” and “hysterical!” Relate deeply or have your mind blown wide open, and then laugh until you pee a little (we won’t judge your pelvic floor strength here).
“Zander is a master of physical comedy... at the same time as she's completely ridiculous, [she] is also completely vulnerable.” — BroadwayWorld
"Anne Zander... brilliantly portrayed the struggle between levity and darkness... particularly powerfully done, and very moving." — Backstage Pass
"… Zander is manic, but brings a fantastic energy to the stage in everything she does." — View from the Gods
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Anne Zander (she/her/hers) is a “completely ridiculous… completely vulnerable” actor, clown, solo-character creator and physical comedy teacher with an MA in devised, physical theater (Theatre Lab) from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She studied clowning there and beyond with her award-winning teacher, Peta Lily.
Her “painfully funny” debut solo show —JUICEBOX— took Portland by storm in 2019 and was Official Selection 2020 at Chicago Sketchfest, Dallas Comedy Festival and HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival (Boston). The pandemic brought forth the digital works Do A Character and her longer, (in)fertility-themed Fertile Ground show, Prolific.
Her second solo show, Anne Zander is MOTHER, debuted at CoHo ClownFest 2023 and was an audience favorite at Fertile Ground Festival 2024. Called “raw and primal and surprising and side-splittingly funny” by BroadwayWorld, this show is headed on a Pacific Northwest tour in Fall 2024.
Anne performs regularly at comedy venues across Portland, teaches sold-out physical comedy and clowning classes in the Pacific Northwest, and is the real-life mother to twin toddlers, who made multiple stage appearances in utero but have yet to bring their own clown antics to the greater public.
Because of them, this show exists.
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“Zander is a master at identifying the essential weirdness of the human experience… and [she] amplifies them to the most outrageous extreme you can imagine. She’s a clown, so it’s funny, but it also has the effect of making you feel not alone in your own essential weirdness.”
— Krista Garver, BroadwayWorld
“... hysterical, sweet, poignant, and deeply representative of what it’s like to bring children into this world.”
— Laurel Wilde, Audience Member
“I don’t have kids. I will never have kids. As I watched Anne’s powerful and moving performance in MOTHER, tears welled up in my eyes and, for the first time, I felt real compassion for my own mother. Anne’s performance pulls no punches and gives an experiential vantage point into a world we don’t often get to see. My mom and I have a complicated relationship but through Anne’s evocative performance, I felt a real healing occurring. It opened something up in me that took me quite by surprise."
— Patti Ibanez, Audience Member
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Want to bring MOTHER to your venue? Contact team@annezander.com
