Anne Fielding, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, Actress, Singer.

Director, the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company in New York City. The theatre company which presents groundbreaking talks by Eli Siegel, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, on plays such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Sheridan's School For Scandal, Ibsen's A Doll's House.

Studied with Eli Siegel beginning in 1953, now studies in professional classes for consultants and associates taught by Class Chairman Ellen Reiss.

 Married to the late Sheldon Kranz, Aesthetic Realism consultant, editor and poet.  

Ms. Fielding is a consultant to women in the trio There Are Wives, with colleagues Barbara Allen and Pauline Meglino, who also teach the monthly Aesthetic Realism and Marriage Class.   

Since 1975 she has presented seminars on marriage at the Foundation, including “What Is a Wife’s Biggest Danger?” “Why Do Married People Quarrel?” “Can a Wife Permanently Love?” “What Are Wives Hoping For?” “Agreement and Disagreement in Marriage” “Closeness & Distance in Marriage: the Problem and the Beautiful Answer,” “Why Are Wives Lonely?” “Contempt: the Enemy of Marriage,” “Can There Be Steadiness in Marriage?” “How Does a Wife Interfere with Her Own Happiness?” “Marriage: Gratitude vs. Resentment,” “Conversations in Marriage: For or Against the World?” “How Should a Widow Cope with the Loss of Her Spouse?”  

Seminar papers include critical studies of Eleanor Roosevelt, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sofia Tolstoy, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill, and Eileen O’Casey, and a technical study of how the mistakes in marriage are like those in acting—in both, opposites are not one!

Teacher of the Aesthetic Realism & Acting Class  

Instructor, with colleagues Barbara Allen, flutist, and Edward Green, composer, of the Opposites in Music Class. At seminars given to celebrate the New Year, students in this class present exciting, scholarly papers on instances of music from Vivaldi to the Beatles, Prokofiev to Louis Armstrong—and more!

Directs and performs with the distinguished Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company,   presenting groundbreaking lectures by Eli Siegel on Shakespeare, including his critical masterpiece Shakespeare’s Hamlet:Revisited, and Mr.Siegel’s magnificent talks on works by Moliere, Sheridan, Ibsen, Strindberg, George Kelly, Kaufman and Hart, Arthur Kober, Susan Glaspell.

The company also performs musical matinees, such as “Ethics Is a Force! Songs About Labor”— presented at the Botto House/American Labor Museum in May 2004. Ms. Fielding was a featured performer in the original cast of the musical Goodbye Profit System, by Martha Baird and Tom Shields

Born in New York City; graduate of School of Performing Arts, studied acting with Michael Howard; musical comedy with Charles Nelson Reilly. Member of Actors’ Equity and AFTRA. One of the authors of the book Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There  (“I Believe This About Acting.”)

Taught acting class based on Aesthetic Realism at HB Studio.

Obie Award winner for the part of Sasha in Chekhov’s Ivanov, a role she was invited to recreate for the CBC television production of  the play in Toronto. Has performed on TV both here and in Canada. Appeared for two seasons with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. (Antony & Cleopatra; The Winter’s Tale; Richard II; Henry IV, Part I); with New York Shakespeare Festival, ( A Midsummer Night’s Dream); in NSF school tour as Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Appeared on Broadway in Juno, (Marc Blitzstein) and Once Upon a Mattress; (Mary Rodgers); off-Broadway in Montserrat, by Lillian Hellman; Juno & the Paycock by Sean O’Casey; The Beaver Coat, by Gerhardt Hauptmann; Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller; Major Barbara  by George Bernard Shaw; and in summer theatre as The Girl in The Fantastiks.

Since 1994 Ms. Fielding and her colleague, Aesthetic Realism consultant Jeffrey Carduner have been popular speakers at senior centers in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island, Connecticut, North Carolina and Florida, presenting such talks as: “Using Love, the Family, and Age to Like the World: Aesthetic Realism Shows How,” “Every Person Can Tell You About Yourself,” “Love Is for Liking the World,” “Memory Shows We Are Connected to the Whole World.”  

Many of these talks—at the present time there have been several hundred—are given with Aesthetic Realism Associate Dr. Jaime Torres and have been presented in both English and Spanish. Several, in English, Spanish, and Chinese, were assisted by Ms. Margaret Wei.

Ms. Fielding has had articles published in newspapers across the country on how Aesthetic Realism explains acting and the drama, marriage and widowhood, and what is happening in the American economy.  

See website:   www. AnneFielding.net