anne keefe has been with the Westport Country Playhouse off and on in many capacities since 1973. She was part of the original group who in 1999 gathered to renovate the Playhouse. She served as the Playhouse Artistic Director with Joanne Woodward in 2008 and as Associate Artistic Director from 2000 to 2006, also with Ms. Woodward.
At Westport Country Playhouse she co-directed with Ms. Woodward a production of DAVID COPPERFIELD as well as initiating and curating the popular SCRIPT IN HAND Series, directing over 50 staged readings in 10 years. She appeared in THE HOLIDAY GARLAND and a reading of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE with Ms. Woodward, Christopher Walken and Mark Shanahan. In the fall of 2007 she served as assistant director to Gregory Boyd on the Hartford Stage Company’s production of OUR TOWN with Hal Holbrook. Formerly she stage managed at Long Wharf Theatre (27 years) and at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Broadway transfers she stage managed include: THE CHANGING ROOM (with John Lithgow), WATCH ON THE RHINE (with George Hearn and Jan Miner), SPOKESONG (with John Lithgow) and the off-Broadway transfer of AMERICAN BUFFALO (with Al Pacino). Other Broadway credits include: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (with Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman) directed by Mike Nichols, HAMLET (with Ralph Fiennes) and NIGHT MUST FALL (with Matthew Broderick).
She has been involved over the last 35 years with the HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP GALA, directing both the 2018 and the 2019 events. Ms. Keefe has served on the board of the Westport Country Playhouse and on the board of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. She has taught the third year stage managers at the Yale School of Drama.
She was awarded the Del Hughes Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Stage Managers’ Association. In 2012 she was honored by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame as one of 10 Women of Distinction as well as receiving the Westport Arts Award for Theatre. In 2016 she received the Tom Killan Award from the Connecticut Critics Circle.
She lives in Weston with her husband, writer/playwright David Wiltse and has three accomplished daughters as well as four grandchildren.
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