Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Scheffler, Anne Marie
Comic actor/ playwright, born and currently based in Toronto and Los Angeles. Anne Marie Scheffler studied theatre at George Brown Theatre School, and Pochinko Clowning at The Theatre Resource Centre, under Sue Morrison. She began her career in the touring company at Second City, Toronto.
In 1994, she wrote and performed her first solo show Situation: NORMA, which sold out at the Summerworks Festival, and caught the attention of theatre reviewer Jon Kaplan of NOW Magazine, thus launching her solo career. For the next few years, she appeared in festivals across Canada in the Fringe Movement with her Norma Trilogy, which includes Situation: NORMA, Watch… Norma’s Back!, and Leaving Norma. Her fourth show is Dating Myself, which sold out at the Toronto Fringe in 1999. Her fifth show Not Getting It was directed by Michael McGinn and co-starred Duff MacDonald and Adrian Churchill. The show became a one-hour comedy special that plays on CTV/ The Comedy Network. She then wrote and performed Got it Good in 2006.
Her seventh show, Suddenly Mommy was also a hit, touring across Canada and the US in major venues for over ten years, including a four week run at the Orillia Opera House and a three week run at Theatre Orangeville, as part of those theatres’ seasons. The Wellington Advertiser wrote “Suddenly Mommy is the funniest Theatre Orangeville production of the last decade.”
Anne Marie Scheffler has performed Suddenly Mommy and her eighth show, MILF Life Crisis, in over thirty performing arts centres and theatres across Canada, including the Brampton Rose Theatre, Okotoks Rotary Performing Arts Centre, Creekside Theatre, Port Dover’s Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Chilliwack Cultural Centre, Kicking Horse Culture, and Medicine Hat’s Esplanade.
She is also a film and TV actor, voice artist, comedian and screenwriter: she co-wrote and co-starred in Mills Entertainment’s hit show Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, which was produced in the US and in Canada by Mills/Mirvish/ Just For Laughs.
Website: www.annemariescheffler.com
Last updated 2021-04-22
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