Anni has worked in circus and theatre for the last twenty years or so.

In the mid-eighties she was a collective performing member of Death Defying Theatre, an outdoor theatre company based in Sydney and touring all over Australia at fairgrounds and shows, in workplaces and housing commissions, in coal mines and at festivals. In the nineties Anni was a founding member of Club Swing (1994), an aerial performance company, and of Crying In Public Places (1989), a four women acapella group and theatre company. Both companies have toured extensively nationally and internationally.

Anni has a long association with Circus Oz which she first joined as performer in 1987 and where she has acted over the years as performer, aerialist, tour manager, administrator, trainer and as Acting General Manager in 1998.

She has been a regular aerial trainer at the Women’s Circus. She has also performed with Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, Salamanca Theatre, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Back to Back Theatre, Zootango Theatre, and with Spellbound, a circus company based in Glasgow. Film and TV includes Mercury and Margaret Star. At Christmas 2000 Anni joined Circus Oz again to perform on Broadway in New York. In 2001 Crying In Public Places toured their third show, Skin, all over the country. Anni rejoined Circus Oz mid-2001 as full time performer and has toured all over the world, including Vienna, Barcelona, Berlin, and all over Australia since.

In early 2005 Anni left the performing ensemble of Circus Oz and worked for that year as Administrative Coordinator in the office. She then took a year’s Maternity Leave. Anni directed the Women’s Circus 2006 show, A Plane Without Wings Is A Rocket. She has also directed at Tangentyere in Alice Springs, and taught Performance Making intensives at The Tasmanian Circus Festival in February 2007. Anni has been a Board member of Melbourne Fringe Festival since 1995.