Annie is an award-winning writer, theatre-maker, creative producer, arts manager and occasional filmmaker.
Recent plays include
Coast (A Play, A Pie and A Pint),
the double bill Twa and Home is Not the Place (Made in Scotland showcase, Edinburgh Fringe, Summerhall Meadows Award winner), and
The Bridge (a Glasgow 2014 commission), which became the first production by a South Asian writer to receive funding for a Scottish tour by national arts agency Creative Scotland.
She was awarded the Ignite Fellowship in 2019 by the Scottish Book Trust, the Inspiring Scotland Bursary by the Saltire Society and the Scottish Book Trust in 2016.
Curry and Irn-Bru, Annie’s first short film as director, won a Real To Reel Award at Glasgow’s International Short Film Festival; was nominated for the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Award and the Bluefire British Film Award; is part of the British Council Short Film selection and been screened at Festivals in Durban, Rotterdam, Pakistan, Suriname and Spain.
“The voice of British Asian cinema gets louder and more confident…The pick is the Glasgow-set Curry and Irn-Bru.” CURRY AND IRN-BRU, BBC Website
Other plays include Nighthawks, Heulwen (White Sun), Noor, The Dark Prince, Coast, Wave and Incendiary (Brick Lane), and have been read or performed at Summerhall, Scottish Storytelling Centre,Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, The Arches, Contact Theatre Manchester, Oval House Theatre London, the Scottish Parliament, Leith Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.
“Annie George’s Noor evokes striking and vivid images…an intelligently written and linguistically colourful piece…” The List
Annie directed the critically acclaimed storytelling theatre piece I Knew A Man Called Livingstone at National Library of Scotland Edinburgh Fringe 2013, Storymoja Hay Festival Nairobi Kenya and Scottish International Storytelling Festival; and Nzinga: Warrior Queen at Fringe 2016 (both by Mara Menzies).
“…performed masterfully…impressive piece of theatre.” LIVINGSTONE, British Theatre Guide
She wrote and produced a short film poem At Rana Plaza, about the seamstress who was the last survivor pulled out of the wreckage of the collapsed building in Bangladesh in 2013, and wrote and directed the short film Hope, screened at the Cameo in the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2009.
Annie was an actor and development producer of the short film Daddy’s Girl, winner of numerous awards including the Prix Spécial De Jury for Short Film, Cannes Film Festival 2001 and co-produced the short film My Daughter’s Face which won awards at festivals in Palm Springs, Vendome in France and Pescara in Italy.
“Atmospheric…charming and thought provoking.” DADDY’S GIRL, The Guardian
She undertook director training at Contact Theatre Manchester and Radio Drama directing at the BBC in London; was Assistant Director in productions for Traverse Theatre Company and Magnetic North; and was actor and producer in the mid ‘90s, with Fringe First winning CAT. A. Theatre Company, a small scale touring, new writing company that often used the prison setting as a site in which to explore social issues.
Annie has worked with numerous organisations such as National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, The Script Factory, BBC World, BBC Scotland; and apeared in Dr Finlay’s Casebook (BBC Radio 4), Taggart (STV) and the feature film A Shot at Glory.