Annie is a writer, dramaturg and performer from South East London, UK, with origins in Egypt, Greece, and the East Midlands of the UK. She trained in theatre and French at Royal Holloway, University of London (1st Class Hons). Her work mixes the mythic and mundane, smooshes the dark and the light. Her breakthrough play, written after a misspent youth and then having two daughters, was a version of Rapunzel taken up by Cornish legends Kneehigh Theatre. It opened at BAC in 2006, returned to the South Bank 2007, then toured the UK 2007-8, finishing at the New Victory Theatre New York in 2008.