Ann has an abundance of experience in teaching, authoring successful plays, dinner theatre productions and television shows. She is a former certified Kindergarten through 12th grade Florida teacher. She received the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Recognition Teacher Award.
She also received an Honorary Award from the Beverly Hills Theater Guild for authoring her social history, intergenerational play a Forgotten Treasure. Some of the many other plays and shows she wrote were for high school productions, fundraising events and for the public. She was an Explorer Advisor for a troupe of teenagers under the Boy Scouts of America. Her high-school troupe was the first performing arts troupe in the country.
She produced and wrote the multi award winning tv series Tampa Bay Connection for four years and Teens Bay Area Connection for another four years under Vision Cable and then Time Warner. The categories of her fourteen 1st place awards included documentaries, entertainment and public affairs.