Sharing the Stage & Sharing a Home
By Annie Sears Arwen Anderson and Rod Gnapp play with their son Rowan at a local park. Photo courtesy Arwen Anderson. It’s a big week for the Anderson-Gnapp family. Rod Gnapp is currently performing on The Geary as Stan in Sweat , which closes Sunday. His wife Arwen Anderson will soon grace The Strand as Goodman in Men on Boats , which begins previews tomorrow. Both Gnapp and Anderson are A.C.T. veterans. You may have seen Anderson most recently in Heisenberg (2018) or Gnapp—a graduate of A.C.T.’s M.F.A. Program—in The Realistic Joneses (2016). They met while working on Magic Theatre’s 2009 production of Mauritius , directed by Loretta Greco, who also directed Sweat . Later that year, they were cast in another play at Magic called Mrs. Whitney. Gnapp started flirting with Anderson—who was playing his character’s fifth wife—during that show, and they’ve been together ever since. Last summer, they performed together in Marin Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet as Gertrude and Claud...