MEET ANNA
Surrounded by stories—true and embellished—in her large Italian family, Anna started telling her own at an early age through words, song, dance, and visual arts. “Let me tell you a story,” became her mantra anytime anyone visited her family’s home, and she’d come up with creative ruses to get folks out of the way during (risky) artistic explorations like mixing two cans of paint or adding water to her mound of clay.
Now she’s an actor, singer, teaching artist, and member of Actors’ Equity Association. Anna has performed in productions at the Arden Theatre, Fulton Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Syracuse Stage, and in developmental works at Baltimore Center Stage, to name a few.
This fall, she performed the 2-person play, Us/Them, with Sisters Freehold, supported by the Center for International Theatre Development about children in response to school violence. As a teaching artist, Anna has taught in Slovakia with Dramatic Adventure Theatre, developed and taught Shakespeare and storytelling curricula in the U.S., and coaches acting and musical theatre. She currently teaches at Music Theatre Philly.
Anna is passionate about using the arts as a means toward social justice, and theatre education as a means toward building community, empathy, and life skills.
When not performing, she loves to curl up with a good book, go outside with family and friends, or swim in the ocean.
“And in the most touching surprise of the evening, Anna DeBlasio—an understudy who subbed in for Cinderella—was simply wonderful vocally and dramatically, giving as polished and winning a performance in this major role as I’ve ever seen.”