Anni Finsterer

Actor, CAMP

Anni Finsterer works across the performing arts sector as an actor, director, teacher, facilitator, speaker, singer, voice-over artist, author, and playwright. 

She is currently the recipient of the Sydney Opera House Contemporary Performance Industry Development Initiative, an opportunity targeting the development of skills, experience and profile across the commercial sector and associated with the role of resident director on Amadeus at Sydney Opera House. 

Anni was awarded Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in 3 Acts of Murder.

Her feature film appearances include multi-award-winning films:

• Sweet Country
• Lonesome
• The Land
• The Flood
• I Met a Girl

Anni has also worked extensively in theatre, appearing in, for Sydney Festival:

• Set Piece

For Darlinghurst Theatre:

• In Real Life

For Riverside Theatres:

• Parramatta Girls 

For Sydney Theatre Company:

• Macbeth
• Poor Superman
• The Threepenny Opera
• Antony & Cleopatra
• The Loaded Ute
• The Women of Troy

For Belvoir:

• Ray’s Tempest
• Jesus Hopped the A Train
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Readers

For Bell Shakespeare:

• Othello

For Melbourne Theatre Company:

• The World’s Wife
• Macbeth

For Melbourne Festival:

• Lenz, directed by Michael Kantor

For Theatre Up North Qld:

• Hamlet

For Queensland Theatre Co.:

• Gilgamesh

For Griffin Theatre Company:

• Rabbit
• Sharon Lily Screwdriver

And for Ensemble Theatre:

• Kimberly Akimbo

Anni’s play, Girl Wild, was nominated for the Rodney Seabourne Award and published in 2020 by Australian Plays; it was originally commissioned by Red Hot Arts, Alice Springs.