The Secret Annex

By Alix Sobler

Anne Frank has survived the war, and at age 25, she's ready to start a new chapter in New York City. Eager to publish a memoir of her time in hiding, Anne is sure it will launch her career as a writer. But when the only interested publisher suggests drastic rewrites, Anne is unsure of what to do. Everyone around her seems to be able to move on and recover from the war, but her inability to make her voice heard forces Anne to question the meaning of her new life. Why did she survive, if not to share stories?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scirocco Drama
• Release date: Nov 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990737886

Alix Sobler

Alix Sobler is a writer of theater, podcasts, television, and film based in New York City. Her plays include Last Night in Inwood, The Great Divide, The Glass Piano, Sheltered, The Secret Annex, She's Not There, and Some Things You Keep. Alix's plays have been read or produced at theatres around the world, and have won and been finalists for multiple awards including the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, The Gulfshore Playhouse New Play Series, the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Contest, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (finalist), the Henley Rose Playwriting Competition (finalist), and the Jane Chambers Award (runner-up), among others. She is a graduate of Brown University and received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

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