Anna Reading is co-founder of touring feminist theatre company Strip Search Theatre, 1987. Her plays have been commissioned and performed in the UK, Poland, India, Ireland and the US and include Kiss Punch Goodnight, Want, Hard-Core, Grandma's Garden, The Stoning, Falling, RP35, Cacti Hearts, To My Dearest Daughter and The Unkind.

 

Anna Reading's plays are referenced in Aleks Siertz, In Yer Face Theatre: British Theatre in the 1990s; Plays by Women, Volume 7 edited by Michelene Wandor and Mary Remnant and Christina Wald's (2007) Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholi;  Gender and Memory in the Globital Age.(2016) and Hanna Meretoja (ed)  (2018)  Storytelling and Ethics