Anne Browning B.A Dip. Act. Grad Dip. Ed. Head of Drama and English graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, and later, with a partner, started a youth theatre company in Perth, where they performed the first adaptation to the stage of works by Tim Winton. She taught at John Curtin Senior High School in Perth, before travelling internationally, which included stints teaching English in Belgium and working on a kibbutz in Israel.
As a performer, Anne has appeared at La Mama, the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, the Playbox Theatre, and the Malthouse. She has directed for the Melbourne Theatre Company, including plays written by her husband Peter Houghton.
Anne has also directed at Latrobe and Monash universities. She has been a teaching artist for the Victorian Arts Centre and ran VCE solo performance-making workshops for Malthouse Education More recently she has been teaching VCE Drama and English at St Michael’s Grammar School, St Kilda.