Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah is a French theater maker. Her plays with music have been produced in residency at Joe’s Pub (Edith Piaf Alive) and Feinstein’s/54 Below (Always Paris). She became an ambassador of her culture, writing commissions for Symphony Space (Love is French) and the Miami-Dade Auditorium. With Athena Theater, she was a playwriting fellow, developing Green Apple Taxi, about a foreign artist in New York...
Flo Ankah is a French theater maker. Her plays with music have been produced in residency at Joe’s Pub (Edith Piaf Alive) and Feinstein’s/54 Below (Always Paris). She became an ambassador of her culture, writing commissions for Symphony Space (Love is French) and the Miami-Dade Auditorium. With Athena Theater, she was a playwriting fellow, developing Green Apple Taxi, about a foreign artist in New York dealing with the reality of immigration (Flo also wrote the cover letter to her green card petition which is a work of art). Her multi-faceted background includes showing her choreography at Movement Research @ the Judson Church, and in award-winning short films she directed (One Way, Waterfront Access?). Flo Ankah performed in vast (The Shrine Auditorium in LA), intimate (Sleep No More @ the McKittrick Hotel), cultured (MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Arts), playful (Dangerfield’s, Upright Citizen’s Brigade) and enclosed spaces (extensive voiceover work). For corporations she is an educator on the topic of Women in the Workplace, and Healing Arts. Flo worked as a translator for the national Comédie Française and John Oliver; and for the Clyde Fitch Report, wrote the essay: When will women lead Storytelling in Hollywood? Atlantic Theater Conservatory graduate.

Plays

  • Edith Piaf Alive
    This play with music developed in residency at Joe's Pub/the Public Theater (video link) is being expanded to three characters. A young French singer in search for her voice opens the door to her culture by taking a closer look at who the legendary "little sparrow" really was – transporting us back in time with that husky, mournful sound popular in the 1940's and 50's.
  • Love is French
    The playful and seductive songstress delivers an inspiring concert to ravish the ear of the francophile and culturally curious. With her Jazz improvisers, she weavs vintage songs into a didactic presentation, dissecting with humor and wisdom the cliché that romances can be - in a journey of love through time, or timeless love.
    #workingdraft
  • April in Paris
    In a Musical Tribute to the French Spirit (workshopped at Feinstein's/54 Below), the vocalist weaves a spell of universal emotions, full of charm, excitement, love, heartache, solitude and defiance, performing the songs that have made Paris an international beacon of liberty, and a touchstone for artists and lovers around the world - bringing to life the timeless standards first sung by Edith Piaf, Charles...
    In a Musical Tribute to the French Spirit (workshopped at Feinstein's/54 Below), the vocalist weaves a spell of universal emotions, full of charm, excitement, love, heartache, solitude and defiance, performing the songs that have made Paris an international beacon of liberty, and a touchstone for artists and lovers around the world - bringing to life the timeless standards first sung by Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Bardot, Yves Montand, Jacques Brel, Françoise Hardy, Joe Dassin, Yves Duteil, but also Victor Hugo, Jean Anouilh and Michel Legrand.