Anne Healy

Anne Healy is an Associate Professor at UTA where she teaches Directing and Musical Theatre and is currently the Associate Chair for Academics. Anne earned her bachelors and master's degrees in Musical Theatre and a Ph.D. in Aesthetic Studies focusing on Theatre and Musical Theatre. An Equity actor, she has appeared Off-Broadway and at major regional theatres. An associate member of SDC, directing includes the Tony Award winning Dallas Theatre Center as Assistant Director for A Raisin in the Sun and as a Directing Observer for My Paris with Kathleen Marshall at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. Director at UTA: The Theory of Relativity (Regional Premiere), Troupers: A Musical Vaudeville (World Premiere), West Side Story, The Music Man, Ragtime, See What I Wanna See, Sweeney Todd, and Bright Star. Anne’s co-written chapter on the musical theatre director was published in The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre in 2022 and has another book chapter appearing in the “Rodgers and Hammerstein in Context” series for Cambridge University Press. Anne returned to The University of Helsinki this summer to present a paper, taught with American Musical Theatre Live in Paris in July, and presented a paper at Goldsmiths University of London in September.