The Back Story
Anastasia grew up traveling and immersed in the arts, exploring people and places around the world. The daughter of a Physics professor and a biology teacher, Anastasia remembers living in Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Australia as a kid. Home base was always Tucson, Arizona in the beautiful desert where Anastasia loved hiking, swimming, and getting an early start on acting at a performing arts high school. She went on to get her BFA in Theatre at Chapman University in Southern California. Anastasia traveled independently for two years enriching her acting work and finding jobs to pay her way. She picked grapes for the wine harvest in Tuscany, performed street theatre in Rome, taught theatre games in Istanbul, and taught English and Yoga in Prague. While Anastasia lived in San Francisco, working with various theatre companies, she was an Instructional Assistant in the Special Education department at a high school near Fisherman’s Wharf. In 2007 she completed her MFA in Acting at the University of Texas at Austin.
Yoga, two-stepping and ballroom dancing, healthy food, new challenges and the love of friends and family keep her very happy.
