Anne Marie Cummings is the first woman to receive Emmy nominations in the categories of acting, writing, and directing in a digital dramatic television series.

[2] Cummings recognized she was merging her experiences from the theatre onto film, so she moved to Los Angeles to continue to explore her style within the one-shot format.

[4] During her summer years while at Carnegie, she continued to study acting at Northwestern University and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England (BADA).

She then performed the role of Constanza in “Amadeus,” by Peter Schaffer which was directed by Mark Ramont at the Capital City Playhouse in Austin, Texas.

She teamed with theatre and opera director, Chuck Hudson, who directed her in the role of Gregor in an avant-garde production of “The Metamorphosis,”[6] by Franz Kafka, and as Marie in “Woyzeck,” by Georg Büchner.

Cummings enjoyed experimenting in the theatre and collaborated with Benji Bittle who directed her in the role of Taylor (as a woman) from the play “K2,” by Patrick Meyers.

For this production, a dance studio was turned into a mountain created by scaffolds, designed by Andrew Davidhazy, and Cummings (a method actress), trained for this role by summiting the 14,000 foot Mt.

Hughes directed Cummings in the black box and mainstage productions of “Voir Dire,” by Joe Sutton, as well as a reading of the play at the New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan.

[8] A year later, Mark Cuddy cast and directed Cummings as Rosaura in “Life is a Dream,” by Pedro Calderon de la Barca at the Sacramento Theatre Company which inspired Edward Payson Call to cast Anne Marie as Antigone, in the Jean Anouih version of “Antigone” at the Cleveland Playhouse and GeVa Theatre in Upstate New York.

As Director, Cummings commands nothing but the best from the entire cast.”[27] TV Grapevine wrote, "Anne Marie is the epitome of a strong powerful woman.

"[29] In an interview with AXS TV, Lou Diamond Phillips said of Anne Marie Cummings’ writing, "It reminded me a bit of Mamet.

'"[30] Hollywood Alert wrote that Anne Marie Cummings, "...is the first woman to receive Emmy nominations for Digital Series Acting, Writing, and Directing.