Anna Hermanson is a circus artist and actor currently based in Chicago. Insatiably curious with the firm belief that anything can be an apparatus, they specialize in aerial hoop, partner acrobatics, and dad jokes. Anna began their circus journey with the goal of making the heightened-texts of Shakespeare more accessible by embodying the stories in a way that transcends language. They have their BFA in Acting with a minor in dance from Viterbo University and studied under Raye Birk at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. 

 

Anna found their love of circus when they were cast to pole dance in an opera, after which they frantically began training aerial arts.

 

Several years - and many inverts later, they completed the Professional Training Program at The Actor’s Gymnasium, and are a part of the current Professional Training cohort at Aloft. Their work is deliberate, tender, and playful with a keen emphasis on collaboration.

 

In their other lives, they work as a fight captain and choreographer, bartender, and wear many hats in film and video production. They are one half of Straight Laced Circus and the parent of Jasper, the Anti-Social Circus Dog™️.

"So lovely and gay."

                                                             - Kristi Taff, Aloft Circus Arts