Anne F. Butler

Anne F. Butler comes to Curious Theatre after spending sixteen seasons at Creede Repertory Theatre where her credits include Violet in August Osage County, Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid,  and in both productions that traveled to Arvada Center: Rose in The Last Romance and Madame Aigreville in The Ladies Man.  Most recently she played  ElmiraGulch/Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz and Roz in 9 to 5. She played for five seasons at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and credits there include Volumnia in Coriolanus and Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals. She was with the Commonweal Theatre Company in Lanesboro Minnesota for five years getting to play such roles as Chickabiddy in Misalliance, and Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. She spent one summer traveling with The Montana Shakespeare in the Parks as Lady M in Macbeth and Althea in The Country Wife. She was active in the Denver theatre scene in the 1980’s and worked in Theatres here, such as Germinal Stage (title role in Major Barbara, and Wilma Wesman in The Perfect Party), Arvada Center (Dottie Otley in Noises Off), Aurora Fox (Moon in The Real Inspector Hound), and the Changing Scene (!, The Scientist in The Malignancy of Henrietta Lacks), as well as productions at DU and Upstart Crow (Boulder). She is a reader for HMBG’s National Winter Playwright’s Retreat in Creede. She holds a Masters Degree in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory and therefore played on the Denver Center’s stages (Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and Mrs. Wainwright in The Grapes of Wrath).