Annie Tippe is a director and creator of new work, music theater and film. With frequent collaborator Dave Malloy, she has directed the world premieres and subsequent productions of Octet and Ghost Quartet. For Octet, she won the Lortel Award for Best Direction and was named an SDC Callaway Award Finalist. Recent: Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares (Audible/Minetta Lane), Julia May Jonas' Your Own Personal Exegesis (Lincoln Center), Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillip's COWBOY BOB (Alley Theatre), Selina Fillinger's Potus (Berkeley Rep), Britta Johnson's Life After (Goodman Theatre; Jeff Award Nominee), Bess Wohl's Continuity (Goodman Theatre), Tony Meneses' The Hombres (Two River), and JJJJJerome + James' INK (co-directed w. Rachel Chavkin; Met Museum) and The Conversationalists (Bushwick Starr). Her short film “HELP ME MARY'' won Best Narrative Short at the Lower East Side Film Festival. Former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, Williamstown Directing Corps. www.annietippe.com