Playwriting

Flo Ankah is a theatermaker from France whose solo plays with music have been presented at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below and the Miami-Dade Auditorium. During her fellowship with Athena Theater she wrote Out of the Box (Symphony Space) and completed Green Apple Taxi on the footsteps of Tennessee Williams in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and under the mentorship of Lucy Thurber. Flo worked as a translator for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and the Comédie-Française, and wrote the cover letter to her green card petition, which is a work of art.

“I write about belonging in a culture that is not my own, and the struggles of the creative process.”

– PlayPenn Entrepreneur Program (2025/2026)
– Vertigo/Thurber Reading Series & Mentorship
– Clarksdale Tennessee Williams Residency
– Athena Theater Playwriting Fellow
– Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive

Plays

○ GREEN APPLE TAXI – Full-length play, 4 characters
Unable to join the dance company of her dreams without proper papers, Bubble becomes a caregiver to Jeanne, an Alzheimer’s patient. Despite the support of her American roommate, Mourad, New York wears down the young choreographer. Years later, she meets Soledad, with whom she has so much yet so little in common. It’s a tale of immigration, language and being there for one another.

○ SWAGGER MAN – 10-min play, 3 characters
Two hipster millennials meet on a train headed upstate: Lathaea and Swagger, a potential match. Punctuated by the streetwise musings of MC Through, their encounter could become more than a one-night stand.

○ OUT OF THE BOX – 10-min play, 2 characters
Plume feels discouraged when her calling for medicine is misunderstood. At the lowest point in her life, Genie appears, igniting a passion for writing—an allegory for writer’s block and the ambivalence of the creative process.

○ LOVE IS FRENCH – Full-length solo show
Dissecting with humor and wisdom the clichés of romance, the comedian and her jazz band invigorate multicultural tunes with a rhythmic twist—an intimate journey of love through time, and timeless loves.

○ APRIL IN PARIS – Full-length solo show
Weaving a spell of charm, joie de vivre, heartache, and defiance, this rhythmic tribute to the French spirit celebrates Paris as a beacon of liberty and a touchstone for artists and lovers around the world.

○ EDITH PIAF ALIVE – Full-length solo show
When you are the instrument – and broken, singing is an act of resilience. The vocalist, in search of her own voice, channels the legendary ‘Little Sparrow,’ transporting us back with that husky, mournful sound of the 1940s and ’50s.

Development

Green Apple Taxi
∙ Clarksdale Residency (reading) – Cutrer Mansion, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 2024
Swagger Man
∙ Athena Writes Fellowship (reading) – The Alchemical, New York City, 2018
Out of the Box
∙ W.A.D Workshop (reading) – Bushwick Starr, New York City, 2025
∙ Athena Writes Fellowship – Symphony Space, New York City, 2018
Love is French
∙ FRA-FLA Festival Opening Night – Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Florida, 2013
∙ Symphony Space, New York City, 2013
April in Paris
∙ Joe's Pub/The Public Theater, New York City, 2023
∙ Concerts Under The Stars (residency) – Hotelle Chantelle, New York City, 2021
∙ Feinstein's/54 Below (sold-out shows) , New York City, 2016
Edith Piaf Alive
∙ Joe's Pub/Public Theater (residency), New York City, 2012