Ann Ritter

A native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Ann Ritter has made her home in the Atlanta, GA, area for the past 31 years. She is an author, performer and business woman, who also teaches and practices yoga and yoga therapy.

For the past six years, Ms. Ritter has developed original material and adapted stories and poems for adults and children in the laboratory setting of Fieldwork, a national artist support initiative that is co-sponsored in Atlanta by Decatur’s Several Dancers Core and Emory University’s dance program. She also serves as one of several Fieldwork facilitators for Atlanta.

Ms. Ritter has been part of the SOS Winter Storytelling Festival and Thanksgiving Storytelling at the Carter Center for 2009 and 2010. Prior to that she performed with Emerging Voices at Callanwolde and in 2008’s Stories from the Fringe adult storytelling festival held at the Academy Theatre.

She also recently starred as eccentric Aunt Viva in the Ansley Park Playhouse production of “A Sunday Afternoon at Loehmann’s” in Midtown Atlanta. A company member with Beacon Dance of Decatur, GA, for the past eight years, Ms. Ritter has been in productions such as “A Bountiful Feast,” “The Mapping Project” and “1906/2006/2106.”

When not writing or performing, Ms. Ritter is an adjunct faculty member in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and teaches yoga at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and Kashi Atlanta. She also has a private yoga practice in Decatur.

She serves on the boards of Beacon Dance and the Friends of Dance at Emory, and is active as a volunteer with Synchronicity Performance Group.

Contact Ann at yoga_lady@earthlink.net.