Anna Gutto

Director, screenwriter and actor Anna Gutto has been working in theater and film since she was a child. She is known for A Light Above (2017), Mommy Heist (2016) and The Kangaroo (2012). She was born in Bærum, Norway, to artists Karin Eie and Guttorm Guttormsgaard. She spent her childhood years in her father's studio and her mother's pottery workshop. This provided her with an arts education from a young age, something that has come to the forefront in her work as a director. In her native Norway, Anna trained and collaborated with Scandinavian legends Jon Fosse, Stein Winge, and Academy Award-nominated director Petter Næss. In her early twenties, Anna moved to New York and became the Artistic Director of two theater companies. She launched 10 plays in 10 years with critical acclaim. Among other outlets, The New York Times described the work as "universally excellent." She consulted on three seasons of Boardwalk Empire and produced classical piano concerts at Carnegie Hall. Anna received her MFA in Film from Columbia University where she graduated with honors in May 2016. She received The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant for her short film A Lucky Man (2017). Gutto won the 2016 Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting for her feature script Paradise Highway (an award selected by Dan Gordon who penned Wyatt Earp, The Hurricane, Passenger 57, and other classics). Anna lives in Santa Monica with her husband Michael Soussan and their two children.