The Miracle Worker
'Anna Cummer as Annie Sullivan was a pleasant surprise in a very difficult role.'
- Mike Mackenzie, Suite101.com
'Kudos too to Anna Cummer as Sullivan, stern in her disciplined approach to teaching yet terribly troubled by her own haunted past.'
- Peter Bernie, The Vancouver Sun
'Her Annie maintains some of Cummer's natural comic radiance (and her sweet high voice) but shows a spine of steel as she determines how to get through to Helen...it's when she and Helen go one-to-one, alone on stage, that it becomes a magical place.'
- Jerry Wasserman, Vancouver Plays
How It Works
'Cummer is also terrific as Brooke. Looking remarkably like a young Jody Foster, she maintains a luminous vulnerability as she shifts from the precocious adolescent who can hardly believe how stupid adults are to desperate freaked-out junkie.'
- Jerry Wasserman, The Province
'Her (Anna's) portrayal of the cold turkey treatment is electrifying as Brooke rushes from door to door looking for escape.'
- Jo Ledingham, The Courier
'Anna Cummer is lippy and touching as Brooke.'
- Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight
Anna's performance in 'How It Works' garnered a Best Supporting Actress (Large Theatre) Jessie nomination.
Winter's Tale
'Anna Cummer and Torrance Coombs are fresh and delightful as the young lovers'
- Dykk, The Vancouver Sun
'Cummer, in particular, ably portrays a young girl on the edge of womanhood, working what she's not entirely sure she has to get her Prince Charming.'
- Stuart Derdeyn, The Province
'Anna Cummer (Perdita) is spring incarnate.'
- Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail
Titus Andronicus
'Cummer flexes her impressive chops, transforming Lavinia from a self-assured young woman to a trembling shell'
- Melissa Poll, The Vancouver Sun
'Cummer gives a stunning tongueless performance in the aftermath of Lavinia's rape and disfigurement'
- Jerry Wasserman, Vancouver Plays
'Cummer, her character reduced to muteness, says more with her ceaseless rocking and small animal moans than line after line of dialogue could accomplish.'
- Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier
Peter Pan
'Anna Cummer makes a hilariously ferocious and flirtatious Wendy in this production.'
- Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight
'Cummer's Wendy the standout'
- Jerry Wasserman, The Province
Anna was nominated for a Best Performance Jessie Richardson award in the TYA category for 'Wendy'.
Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet
'The delightful Anna Cummer nearly steals the show as sex-and-death-obsessed Juliet'
- Jerry Wasserman, The Province
'Anna Cummer's Juliet is positively visionary.'
- Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight
Anna's portrayal of 'Juliet' won her a Jessie Richardson award for Best Supporting Actress (Small Theatre).