Anna & Kitty, Inc. is a 501(c)3 registered not-for-profit organization devoted to female+ arts with an emphasis on education and leadership through the development and interpretation of immigrant and Jewish contemporary and classical texts that re-center women.​ 

 

Our name comes from the dual heroines of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Anna & Kitty, as well as the fictional character "Kitty" to whom Anne Frank addressed many of her diary entries. Drawing on the power of writing and self-expression, we aim to re-center and uplift women's voices, imaginations, and narratives. Through curricular workshops, hands-on coursework, and institutional collaborations, we create spaces for cultural initiative, exploration, and interrogation.

 

Anna & Kitty, Inc. and its affiliate artists have co-produced and taught with the American Playwriting Foundation, Fault Line Theater, the Tank, 59E59, Civilians, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference, Manhattan JCC, GenerationR, Working Theater, NYSCA, Colt Coeur, Rattlestick, COJECO, 14STY and LABA Second Stage and been profiled and featured in American Theater Magazine, TDF, The New York Times, The Jewish Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, CANVAS Compendium, Lilith Magazine, and many more.

 

Full productions include The Russian & The Jew at the tank (2018), Round Table at 59e59 (TSQ's Best of 2019), and The Matriarchs at Theaterlab (Forward's Best of 2025) with generous support from Venturous Theater Fund, Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, ART/NY, and Elliot Joseph. Producing collaborations include I Came Back For Molly at Theater Row (2026) with the American Playwriting Foundation. Through ongoing readings and full presentations, we cultivate crucial cultural leadership that raises the standards of arts and culture as a benchmark of personal and global development. Liba Vaynberg and Inés Braun are honored to serve as our co-artistic directors. Learn more about our past productions and upcoming work.