Written by Ron Elisha

Directed by Amanda Brooke Lerner

Designed by Jacob Battista

Music by Simon Mason

Lighting by Finnegan Comte-Harvey

Starring Alexis Fishman

Stage Manager Aksel Tange 

Produced by Neil Gooding and Anton Berezin

Associate Producer Alexis Fishman

Made possible with the generous support of Harvey Newman

‘Anne Being Frank’, a new play by Ron Elisha, is a total reimagining of the story of Anne Frank. This one-woman show starring Alexis Fishman was performed Off-Broadway to rave reviews. It is a reimagining designed to force us to view an iconic story that we thought we knew through entirely fresh eyes, leading us to question certain dear-held assumptions.

It poses the basic question: Had Anne known precisely what was in store for her and her family at the hands of the Nazis, would she still have written the famous line: ‘In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart’?

The play takes place within three ‘worlds’: The world of the secret annex, where Anne and her family are hiding from their German occupiers – this is the story we all know, though it is now retold in hindsight. The world of the concentration camp – Bergen-Belsen – where Anne and her sister, Margot, ended their days. And an imagined world where Anne goes over the manuscript of her diary with her editor at a publishing house in Manhattan after the war.