Anniston Mabel was born to be a star and a star she was (and is.)
She was born in Seattle, Washington to Anne and John. Her parents were young. Her dad was 24 when she was born, and her mom was only 20.
One day, when she was two years old, she went with her mother to the grocery store to pick something up for dinner. Her father arrived to their small house from work. He had parked the car, grabbed his things from the front seat, and fainted as soon as he stepped out of the car. Anne found him when she pulled into the driveway. He was unconscious and unresponsive, but he was breathing. After a week on life support, John’s family made the decision to take him off and let him die peacefully.
Upon the completion of an autopsy, it was found that John’s drug habit and undiagnosed heart condition had been at war with each other. If his heart wasn’t going to take him, the drugs would. If the drugs didn’t, his heart was a ticking time bomb anyway. He was only 26.
Anniston and Anne faced the world together for the next few years, mostly alone. They moved back in with Anne’s parents, and Anniston watched her mother go through lousy man after lousy man.
Anniston spent every day at daycare or preschool or school, and every summer enrolled in various camps. She wasn’t home much, but she loved her mother.
She was enrolled in a summer performing arts camp when it was discovered that she had a big voice in such a small body and she loved the attention of being center stage.
She took acting classes and dance classes and voice lessons at the theater for years. When she was ten, her grandmother took her to a casting call in New York City. She got three call backs to be in a revival of Annie.
After a few months of being the one and only Annie, her voice was tired and Anniston was ready to go home.
About a year later, her grandmother took her to a casting call for Matilda on Broadway.
She was one of four girls who played Matilda at the time, but she was special because she got to do the Friday and Saturday night shows, and everyone knew those were saved for the most special girls.
She didn’t go home after her run, though. She stayed in New York City with her grandmother. Her mother flew in and out to see her, and her grandfather would call. But for years, it was just Anniston and her grandmother in New York.
From Annie to Matilda to Tuck Everlasting to Fun Home. When she was sixteen, she booked Dear Evan Hansen as Zoe Murphy playing across Seymour (one of Nora’s old foster children) as Evan. She was young, and this caused quite a stir in the theatre district. However, she had graduated from high school through a fast-track homeschool program and she was dedicated to the craft.
Her grandmother, however, became very ill during the run of the show. She had to return home to Seattle, and Anniston was legally declared emancipated. She was able to stay in New York, and there she stayed for another year in her role as Zoe.
Anniston even did a few NYC-based procedural shows, like SVU and New Amsterdam.
All in the same week, Anniston had auditioned and booked the official Broadway production of Heather’s as Veronica, her grandmother died of lung cancer, and her mother overdosed on the same drug her father had been using.
Grief became too much, she could not go into rehearsals, and she booked a plane ticket back home. Grief was too much for her grandfather. He allowed her to stay to plan the double funeral, but as soon as their bodies were in the ground, she was out.
She couldn’t return to New York. The lights had gone down on the Great White Way for Anniston, and she had no where to go.
She had Seymour, though, and Seymour had Nora. And into Nora’s house she moved.
Anniston just turned eighteen. She’s moody and broody, a little, but she can be the sweetest girl in the world. She does enjoy being the center of attention and loves an audience of any size--and listen, she’ll do just about anything for a bit of attention. She has spent so many of her formative years being paid to be someone else, so she doesn’t quite know who she is. She still loves performing, and wants to find a way to continue to do that in a small town like Brooksville.
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