Anne Galjour is a contemporary playwright and stage actress. Originally from Louisiana, she currently resides in San Francisco. She is a professor of play writing in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Galjour's credit's include OKRA, a dark comedy about Cajun and Creole culture and legend set in French-speaking Louisiana, which premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco February 18, 2004. It was then produced at Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans May 24, 2005. Her children's play THE QUEEN OF THE SEA was commissioned and produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It toured schools across northern California. Her new play STARS AT NIGHT will be produced by Z Space Studio in the 2005-06 season.

Her solo performance credits include ALLIGATOR TALES - HURRICANE and MAUVAIS TEMPS which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and went on to Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville. THE KREWE OF NEPTUNE and ALLIGATOR TALES (4 Dramatic Short Stories) both premiered at Climate Theatre in San Francisco. Her solo work has been presented at Theater for the New City in New York, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, New City Theater in Seattle, Redwood Cultural Work in Oakland, Aurora Theatre Co. in Berkeley, California Plaza Presents in Los Angeles, and numerous college and theatre festivals across the United States.

As the playwright of ALLIGATOR TALES (1998) and other works produced and presented by Brava Theater, Anne has also attracted and captivated expansive multicultural audiences with her note-perfect, often hilarious, and always moving depictions of Cajun life. While this unique American subculture is far removed from San Francisco, in terms of geography, many of the cultural issues faced by Cajuns—including separation from an ancestral homeland and language, assimilation into American culture, and ever-present currents of racism—are the same issues faced by the many Latin American, African American, Asian American, and other multicultural members of BRAVA’s audience.

Awards for her work include the Will Glickman Playwriting Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Award - best original script, finalist for the Penn West Award for MAUVAIS TEMPS (Part two of Alligator Tales) in 1997. For HURRICANE she received the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Emerging Playwright. The ATCA selected it as one of the best 3 plays in regional theatre, 1994. Additional honors for HURRICANE include Bay Area Theater Critics Circle - best solo performance, SF Solo Mio Festival - outstanding solo artist, SF Bay Guardian "Goldie" for outstanding performance artist - 1993.

"Anne Galjour doesn’t only make us see and hear her characters. We smell and taste them too, in a sumptuous flow of Southern language filled with vivid imagery." - S. Winn, SF Chronicle

"Galjour’s text has a sweep that is both novelistic and cinematic." - V. Canby, NY Times

"Imagine Eudora Welty or Flannery O’Connor acting out their stories instead of just writing them down and you have an inkling of what Galjour is up to." - Seattle Times