Anna Soden: Fairy Aubergine

Anna is an actor/comedian from York, who trained at Mountview.

Her credits include Feste in CBeebies Presents Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), Nicola in the first UK revival of Kinky Boots (New Wolsey/Queens Theatre), The Idea of You (Amazon Studios), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Sleeping Beauty (Liverpool Everyman), Return to Elm House (Battersea Arts Centre), Primary Playmaker (Oxford Playhouse), A Theory of Justice: The Musical (Arts Theatre West End), Heaven’s Gate (Pleasance/UK Tour), Nele Needs a Holiday (Theatre Royal Plymouth/ Summerhall), Rapunzel (The Theatre Chipping Norton), The Travelling Pantomime (York Theatre Royal), Murder at The Gates (DEM with James Bourne/Steven Sater), Aladdin (Derby Arena) and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Chinaplate). Anna has toured her one-woman adaptation of Five Children and It to venues including The Sheffield Crucible, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Latitude Festival and Glastonbury. She has performed her folk musical Mad For Our Daughters at The Turbine and Seven Dials Playhouse.

As a comedian, Anna won The British Comedy Guide Sketch Competition and has performed her solo comedy show It Comes Out Your Bum at The Bill Murray, Brighton Spiegeltent and Edinburgh Fringe.

Last year, Anna was nominated for a Pantomime Award for playing Dave the Cow at the York Theatre Royal. This is Anna’s first panto at City Varieties.

To prepare for the role of Fair Aubergine, Anna has been trying to speak in rhyming couplets:
“I can’t wait to be in Leeds- it’ll be so sick
With a bass in my hand and a trumpet on my lip,
My wand can grant wishes with just one flick,
And we all know what the aubergine emoji means… eggplant if you’re American!”

Socials: Instagram/Twitter: @annaamabel / Tiktok: @annasoden

Panto instruments: Trumpet, bass, tubular bells