News & Events 2002-2003

Ann Timmons Performs One-Woman Show

Ann Timmons, actress and playwright, performed her one-woman show “Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” at Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts on October 1, 2002 as part of the Society of Skeptics lecture series.

Ms. Timmons has been involved in the professional theatre since 1982 as a stage, screen and film actor and since 1991 as a director and playwright. This performance is part of an ongoing tour that began with a successful run Off-Broadway in 1992 and has criss-crossed twenty-six states. “Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” is about the life of Ms. Gilman, a prolific writer in the early 1900s who influenced thousands of women through her witty and provocative novels, stories, poems and lectures.

Ann Timmons with her children, Leo 6 1/2 and Nora 10.

Ann Timmons’ Off-Broadway credits include workshops of new works at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists and the Harold Clurman Theatre. Regional theatre work includes the American premiere production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at the Great Lakes Festival Theatre, ten Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with the Ohio Light Opera Company, as well as performances with the Olney Theatre, Horizons Theatre and The Rep Stage Company in the Washington, DC area. Her film and television credits include Wall Street, Saturday Night Live and Another World.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Timmons also trained at London’s prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. She has been on the theatre faculty of the University of the District of Columbia and American University, and has led a variety of acting, voice and performance workshops as a Visiting Artist. She has directed productions for children’s theatre companies in Bethesda, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia and has headed up drama programs in public and private schools in Alexandria/Arlington, Virginia.

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