Anne D’Innocenzio (performer, writer) is a national business writer for one of the world’s largest news organizations. When not reporting, Anne loves playing piano and going to museums and theater in this magical city.  She performed on and off at the New Talent Shows at Carolines on Broadway before the pandemic, riffing about her overprotective Italian Catholic mother and her family. The premise of the “Red Light Zones” was first workshopped in early 2017 at the now defunct Go Solo Workshop in Manhattan with instructor Christine R. Miller.  But a serious health diagnosis forced her to pull out of the workshop  soon after. A year later, Anne started up again with Christine, recasting and expanding her show and has been working with her ever since then- even through the pandemic-induced lockdowns. Anne received her bachelor’s degree from Smith College and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.