Anne Hamburger is the Founder and Artistic Director of En Garde Arts, which brought site-specific theater to New York.  From 1985 to 1999, she presented many innovative and contemporary works at various locations around the city such as Central Park, the Meatpacking District, and Penn Yards.  Her Off-Broadway credits include: THE RITUAL PROJECT (1985), AT THE CHELSEA (1989), FATHER WAS A PECULIAR MAN (1990), CROWBAR (1990), ANOTHER PERSON IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY (1991), ORESTES (1993), J.P MORGAN SAVES THE NATION(1995), THE WASTE LAND (1996), and THE TROJAN WOMEN: A LOVE STORY (1996). In 2014, she revived the company and has since done: BASETRACK LIVE (2014), launched at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, toured to 40 cities, premiered at Fort Hood, Killeen Texas and will be traveling to five additional bases; VERSAILLES (2016) in her home in Hastings, WILDERNESS (2016) at Abrons Arts Center and a tour to the Kennedy Center and other cities, and RED HILLS (2018) in an empty floor of a 20,000 square foot office building.  Upcoming is UNDOCUMENTED (2019), planned for a five borough tour. For her work, she has won 6 Obies, 2 Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lee Reynolds Award and the Exceptional Merit in Media Award from The National Political Women’s Caucus. 

Hamburger was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Yale School of Drama. Before getting into theatre, Hamburger was a visual artist who did sculpture, photography, and various other forms of performance art. She began her theatre career as an actor in Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and later went on to study theatre at Yale. In her third year at Yale, she started a site-specific theatre company as her Master’s Thesis, which soon became successful. After many years at En Garde Arts, Hamburger disbanded the company and travelled to California, where from 1999-2000 she was the artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse. After one year she left to become the Executive Vice President of Creative Entertainment for Disney, a global division which she had launched. There, she spearheaded the entertainment, such as stage shows for the parks and the cruise ships. In 2014, Hamburger returned to New York and revived En Garde Arts with an expanded mission that uses theatre to address the salient social issues of our time and brings people together not normally in conversation.