Anna Dunbar is an actress, comedian, writer, filmmaker, and theatre technician born in central Mississippi. She attended Samford University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of the Arts degree in theatre performance and directing. Throughout her years at Samford, she received many performance, technical, and design opportunities, including participating in the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a performer.

Freshman year of college, she started working as run crew for various shows and eventually worked her way up to property manager and designer by the end of the year. Her sophomore year, she went on to assistant stage manage, stage manage, and light design for main stage performances. She expanded her skillsets throughout her junior and senior years in directing, writing, producing, and improvisation comedy performance.

She wrote, directed, and produced her first full length show for her senior capstone project and called it Sketch Me If You Can! This show developed her love and passion for producing her own content and collaborating with her friends. She continues to write, direct, and produce her original content in Chicago and wherever she can. Her writings have been on various stages including multiple at The Second City Training Center. Anna has directed, assistant directed, stage managed, assistant stage managed, tech directed, produced, and run various professional shows. She has worked art camps, theatre camps, and youth camps all around the southeastern United States as well. She continues to perform and work professionally in the Chicago area in workshops, sketch shows, short films, web series, and more.

Anna has studied at The Second City Training Center in their Comedy Studies Program, their Writing Program, and their Improv Immersion Program. She studied mprov at iO Chicago in early 2017 and graduated from their improv program in April 2018. She has studied under many notable instructors including Susan Messing, Norm Holly, Ryan Archibald, Neil Jacobson, Rob Kozlowski, Jeff Griggs, Rachael Mason, Adal Rafai, Jen Ellison, Matthew Van Colton, and Lisa Linke. She was also an original member of the improv troupe Mr. Howard that was created on Samford University's campus. With friends from these classes, she performed on multiple improv teams in Chicago including John Claude Van Gogh and Sonic Screwdriver. She then went on to study improv at The Annoyance Theater up until the pandemic, when the theatre had to close temporarily for safety.

In February of 2018, Anna released her first full length web series, Scratch That!, found on YouTube. She wore many hats in the series including Writer, Creator, Producer, 1st AD, Casting Director, Editor (3 episodes), and social media representative. She has expanded her film crew experience by working as a gaffer, grip, 1st AD, and Production Assistant on student films with the Harold Ramis Film School and with the iO Comedy Network. She’s in post-production for her second web series Bottled Up, in which she was the Writer, Director, Production Designer, and Producer of. Being a content creator, Anna strives to always find a new story to share with the world and hopes that one day her voice will make a difference. Don't we all wish that? :)