Anna Marie is currently performing in and producing the critically acclaimed show Naughty Cabaret. After a sold out run at the Edinburgh fringe in 2025, the show is being performed at Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival spring 2026. The “lovable” (The Scotsman) clown duo Anna Marie & Marie, toured their clown comedy TROLL ★★★★ (THE GUARDIAN), in Australia, USA, Norway and the UK after a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024. In june 2024 they premiered theur new show Rampetroll at GoFigure Festival.

Anna Marie performs her own work regularly at different cabaret and comedy nights. Previous guest performances include Humor Over Oslo 2023/2024/2025, Comedy Gold at National Theatre Melbourne (Australia), Piggy Time (Los Angeles), Fools Moon Cabaret (SOHO Theatre, London), Pinata (London), 2Northdown (London), Brainchild Hatch (London), The Dip Comedy (London), Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (Edinburgh), Objectively Funny (Brighton), Cabaret Impedimenta (Edinburgh), The Lovely Boys and Friends (Brighton) og WonderJam (Edinburgh) 

When Anna Marie is not clowning, she works at different festivals. She is head of marketing for Oslo Fringe. She also founded and curates Norway Clown Festival with Amanda Tunsberg and Marie Kallevik Straume. Previous guest artists such Angela DeCastro, Piotr Sikora, Paulina Lenoir and Rosa Garland. Tunsberg, Straume and Simonsen is also running workshops in clowning and are starring in the clown boyband AMEN.

Simonsen’s debut solo show, Naughty (★★★★★ Oslo Fringe review), sold out at Oslo Fringe 2021. The ‘unmissable’ (ToDoList London) show has since toured the UK and Norway including performances at VAULT Festival 2023, Camden People’s Theatre (London), Nieu Scene (Oslo, Norway), Old Fire Station (Oxford) and the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.

Anna Marie is fascinated by clowning - how it provides space & freedom to explore/challenge audience's preconceptions. She loves using comedy & audience interaction as tools to subvert. Through her work she aim to unveil the complexity of the modern world through drawing attention to its inherent ridiculousness & promote the art form of clowning.

In 2022 she facilitated Clowning: Celebrating failure - a series of clowning workshops at The London Performance Studios in Bermondsey. A space for female & queer people to play and empower eachother through clowning.

In 2019 she directed the “divinely silly” London hit (★★★★ To Do List) Forbruker. The show had a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, where Anna Marie also performed at The Wonder Jam. Forbruker was listed by the Scotsman in their ‘six best shows finishing early’ at the Edinburgh fringe, ‘four great shows to help you rage against the machine’ and as ‘unmissable’ by the ToDoList. Followed by sold out performances at SOHO Theatre and Camden People’s Theatre.

Her directorial debut Forbidden Fruit a Flavour Has was performed at the Cockpit Theatre during Camden Fringe in 2018. She has performance training from the US, UK and Norway, and studied at Mountain City Centre of the Arts in Maryland from 2013 to 2014 under the teaching of Coty Forno.