- The Mercy Seat, by Neil LaBute
- In a Forest, Dark and Deep, by Neil LaBute
- Voir Dire, by Joe Sutton
- Antigone, by Jean Anouilh
- The Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov
- Life’s a Dream, by Calderón de la Barca
- The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Adaptation, Chuck Hudson
- K2, by Patrick Meyers
- Woyzeck, by Georg Buchner
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
- The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer
Voir Dire, by Joe Sutton
Role of Faith
Director Doug Hughes
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
“Anne Marie Cummings plays the only character who gets beyond cliché: a wide-eyes Nebraska ditz who in the second act lands the most convincing and articulate challenge to the left-leaning jurors.”
Seattle Weekly, Seattle
“And the well-honed cast – including four key actors from the earlier Rep version – supplies a crackling, stinging intensity that never flags…The actors make the transformations persuasive. Harrison and Cummings, in particular, add new textures to their earlier portrayals.”
The Seattle Times, Seattle
Antigone, by Jean Anouilh
Role of Antigone
Director Edward Call
Cleveland Playhouse
Cleveland, OH
& GeVa Theatre
Rochester, NY
“Anne Marie Cummings captured the childish and defiant Antigone with
considerable fervor…”Back Stage, NY
“When Artistic Director Mark Cuddy announced that Antigone would be part of his inaugural season at GeVa, he said that he had already cast in the title role ‘one of the best young actresses working in the country today.’ That actress is Anne Marie Cummings, a 1990 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.”
Backstage at GeVa Theatre, Rochester
“One of the reasons Edward Call picked Antigone was to work with Anne Marie Cummings, an “extraordinary actress” who had previously auditioned for him.”
Sun Scoop Journal, Cleveland
“Her glowering eyes and face puckered in a perpetual scowl, Anne Marie Cummings captures the spirit of the defiant and rebellious Antigone. The actress is equally beguiling as the impish youngster who is not above playing tricks on her nurse…”
Jewish News, Cleveland
“As Antigone, Anne Marie Cummings embraces the role of the wild but determined childlike woman who seems to be everywhere on the stage at once.”
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester
“Antigone is the young romantic, and Anne Marie Cummings gives her plenty of fire and an appealing fragility.”
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
“If the mark of an important and interesting play is its ability to spark discussion, then Jean Anoulih’s Antigone qualifies. The drama provides enough cerebral fodder to chew over and debate long after the final scene of the Cleveland Play House’s production. Its most passionate moments are provided chiefly by Anne Marie Cummings, who shows Antigone’s youthful mischievousness and rash, uncompromising nature.”
Sun Scoop Journal, Cleveland
The Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov
Role of Irina
Director Peter Sylvester
Synchronicity Space
New York City, NY
“There is a third sister, the youngest, Irina, the ingénue part, in which an actress can be very good or very bad. I thought when I first laid eyes on Anne Marie Cummings that she, especially, was too much a healthy cornfed American girl for the role, her long black hair falling down around her shoulders. But when she said: “What feelings! What feelings!” I started to shiver, and before the end – when, dried up, as she thinks, embittered, as she thinks, at 23, “thinner, uglier, older,” but still passionate, she’s put her hair up – she had me in full, total spell.”
New York Post, NYC
Life’s a Dream, by Calderón de la Barca
Role of Rosaura
Director Mark Cuddy
Sacramento Theatre Company
Sacramento, CA
“The woman, Rosaura (a wonderfully pure performance by Anne Marie Cummings), provides the subplot. Dressed as a man, she journeys to the palace to win back or kill Astolfo, the love who has deserted her and destroyed her honor.”
Gold River News, Sacramento
“All of the actors do a wonderful job. I particularly enjoyed the performance by Anne Marie Cummings who plays Rosaura.”
Carmichael Times, Sacramento
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Adaptation, Chuck Hudson
Role of Gregor
Director Benjii Bittle
The Immediate Theatre
Seattle, WA
“Anne Marie Cummings plays Gregor brilliantly – scratching her ear with her elbow, rubbing her hands and splaying her feet with terrible familiarity. Her scalped haircut, her choking bow tie, and the sheen of sweat on her face as she skitters on all fours vividly convey the nightmare borderland she inhabits as Gregor, torn between inspect impulses (for garbage and dark places) and human feelings. One scene, where she sits by her window looking out over the gray city with a kind of wistful normalcy, is about as touching as theater gets.”
The Stranger, Seattle
“Cummings, scuttling casually about with one thumb tucked jauntily in her waistcoat pocket, made Kafka’s Gregor the most petite bourgeois insect imaginable.”
Seattle Weekly, Seattle
K2, by Patrick Meyers
Role of Taylor
Director Ray Chapman
Genesis Theatre Project
Seattle, WA
“Cummings infuses Taylor with fierce strength and a bravado that clearly masks a lonely soul…Cummings’ role of Taylor was originally written for a man. That it is so successfully acted by a woman suggests that the complexities of friendship at the heart of “K2” transcend gender.”
The Stranger, Seattle
Woyzeck, by Georg Buchner
Role of Marie
Director Chuck Hudson
The Immediate Theatre
Seattle, WA
“The prostitute Marie (the compelling Anne Marie Cummings) bears his child and accepts his money, but cuckolds him with an arrogant drum major)…The actors move well, but few in the cast speak Carl R. Mueller’s translation as authoritatively as Cummings and Arp.”
The Seattle Times, Seattle
Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
Role of Puck
Director Anne Ciccolella
Austin Shakespeare Festival
Austin, TX
“The play goes into high gear when Puck (Anne Marie Cummings) enters the scene. Cummings is superb in the part of Puck. Mercurial and light on her feet with all the varied emotions of the part, she gracefully delineates the amoral spirit with charming and blood-chilling accuracy. It is not often that a performer dares to reach into the not-quite-human aspect of Puck, and to see is so well done is a high-water mark for the Austin Shakespeare Festival.”
Daily Texan, Austin
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Role of Anne
Hollywood Playhouse
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
“I saw this sensitive, warm young dreamer come alive on stage with the talents of Anne Marie Cummings, who really IS Anne Frank. She can move your every emotion as you watch her relate to the cast around her with her own interpretation of a 13-year-old.”
The Tribune, Hollywood, FLA
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Role of Constanze
Capitol City Playhouse
Austin, TX
“Anne Marie Cummings (Constanze) is a most welcome addition to the Austin theater scene. Lavishly beautiful, Cummings played her scenes like summer tempests at sea, blowing emotions this way and that.”
Austin American-Statesman, Austin, TX
The Mercy Seat by Neil Labute
Role of Abby
Director Bryan Van Campen
The Readers Theatre of Ithaca, NY
“In her performance Cummings manages to capture the contradiction in Abby’s personality, conveying both the forcefulness that makes her believable as a successful finance executive and the neediness that causes her to make bad personal decisions.”
Ithaca Times, Ithaca
In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil Labute
Role of Betty
Director Cynthia Henderson
The Readers Theatre of Ithaca, NY
“As Bobby emotionally probes into the mind and actions of his sister, Cummings becomes LaBute’s Russian nesting doll — revealing hidden layers while illustrating her range and dexterity as an actor.”
Pass The Popcorn Reviews, Ithaca