Pittsburgh native Anne Marie Lewis has enjoyed a richly varied and long career in the performing arts. She has performed across the globe from Carnegie Hall to Boise to Little Rock to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as well as in Canada, England and Scotland.

With the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s final novel, she performed Persuasion: A Musical Adaptation at Jane Austen festivals on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and in Bath, England in 2018.

Chicago area credits: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Emma), Music Theater Works (Peter Pan, My Fair Lady, One Night in Venice, The Red Mill) Remy Bumppo Theatre Company (Northanger Abbey, The Skin of Our Teeth), Parker Players Theater (Art), Pride Films and Plays (Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream) Northbrook Theatre (Fancy Nancy, Elephant and Piggie: We are in a Play), Oil Lamp Theater (Love, Loss, and What I Wore), Refuge Theatre Project (bare), Lifeline Theatre (Midnight Cowboy), Chamber Opera Chicago (Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, The Sound of Music, Hansel and Gretel), Spartan Theatre (Jake’s Women), Jedlicka Performing Arts Center (Moon over Buffalo), Metropolis Performing Arts Center (The Diary of Anne Frank), Fury Theatre (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Provision Theater (Christmas on the Air), 16th Street Theatre (Graveyard of Empires), Chicago Opera Theatre (Shining Brow, Don Giovanni), and Idle Muse Theatre Company (The Scullery Maid), Music Theatre of Highland Park (Don Pasquale, La bohème, Die Fledermaus, Carmen).

Regional opera credits include Lyric Opera Cleveland (Little Women), Pine Mountain Music Festival (Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus), Battle Creek Symphony (Carmen, La bohème), Ann Arbor Symphony (Carmen), LaCrosse Symphony (Carmen), Arkansas Sympohony (La bohème), Muddy River Opera (Die Fledermaus), American Opera Theatre (Don Giovanni), Quad Cities Opera (La bohème), as well as numerous appearances with regional symphony orchestras.

International credits: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Buxton Fringe Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Jane Austen 200 in Winchester, UK.

As an audiobook narrator, Anne Marie Lewis recently brought home a SOVAS award for Outstanding Audiobook Narration - Biography and is proud of her other four SOVAS award nominations for her narration work in self-help, mystery, history and humor, all favorite genres. A champion of keeping the human voice in the creative space, she enjoys collaborations in both the traditionally published and indie author spaces. Anne  Marie is frequently invited to share her knowledge of audiobook narration and production at writers’ conferences, on podcasts and in journals.  She serves on the Education Team with Professional Audiobook Narrators Association (PANA) and is a member of the Audio Publishing Association (APA), the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA), Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America.

When not in the booth Anne Marie battles invasive plant species in her garden (take that, garlic mustard and buckthorn!); cheers on her athlete sons in track, football and water polo; and honors her rich cultural heritage in her kitchen by whipping up a mean Filipino chicken adobo or a satisfying Irish corned beef. She has performed on stages across the globe in operas, musical theater and plays. She learned Japanese while working in Tokyo for two years. A huge fan of classic mysteries, Anne Marie imagines herself  Poirot or Jessica Fletcher as she searches for missing wallets, keys, school IDs, and eyeglasses for her family — and finds them!  She loved her undergraduate major in the Great Books at Notre Dame and will gladly launch into lengthy detail about it (you’ve been warned). Anne Marie is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.

Anne Marie is a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University and an even prouder mother to four wonderful and deeply talented young men. She loves her Five Guys (her four sons and her husband), her steadfast support system! She lives with her family in Chicago.