Anne Hamburger

Anne Hamburger (born )

Hamburger founded and led En Garde Arts from 1986 until 1999. She has also won two Drama Desk Awards.

She was then named artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, and after one year moved on to become executive vice president for Walt Disney Creative Entertainment. She produced spectacles and stage shows for the Disney parks and cruise ships, including Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular and Finding Nemo – The Musical.

After eight years at Disney, Hamburger restarted En Garde Arts and returned to producing off-Broadway theatre. In 2015, she presented a theater festival in Hudson River Park with nine separate pieces, including one by the Obie-winner Lee Sunday Evans. In 2017, she produced and co-wrote the play Wilderness which explored the issues created by sending children on wilderness therapy camps. While developing Wilderness, Hamburger spent time with youths in Utah at a wilderness therapy camp and conducted interviews with parents who had to send their children to such camps.

Hamburger curated a free performing arts festival in New York City in May 2021.