Anna Konkle

Anna Konkle is an American actress, writer and director who grew up in Randolph, Vermont, and Scituate, Massachusetts, and started out in student films and experimental theater while studying at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During her first decade of work she took small roles in television shows including New Girl, Shameless and Ramy, and from 2015 to 2017 she played Tara Milly Izikoff on Rosewood. In 2019 she co-created the Hulu comedy series PEN15 with Maya Erskine, a fellow student she had met in an experimental theater program in Amsterdam, and Sam Zvibleman, and she starred in it as a semi-fictional version of her 13-year-old self. The show received critical acclaim and earned her two Primetime Emmy nominations, for writing in 2019 and as a comedy series in 2021. Her memoir, The Sane One, was released in 2026.