Theater

Annie Enneking

Princess Grace Award:
Theater Apprenticeship, 1987

Additional Grants:
• 2012 Professional Development Grant

      Annie Enneking has been a performing artist for thirty years. She has acted on almost every stage in the Twin Cities, and danced and toured professionally across the country. Annie is a recognized Fight Director and Associate Fight Instructor with Dueling Arts International, and has staged violence on numerous area stages (the Guthrie, Frank Theater, Children's Theatre Company, Ten Thousand Things, Park Square, Theatre Latte Da). Annie teaches the art of stage combat at Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota, and fronts the rock band Annie and the Bang Bang. In addition to being a Princess Grace Fellow, Annie was a 2010 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow, a Bush Fellowship Finalist, has twice received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant (2010 and 2014), as well as support from the Jerome Foundation and Minnesota Regional Arts Council to further her work as a theatre/music maker. Annie has had a hand in creating three original theater music works: The Joans, an original rock and roll theater concert; New Paradise Laboratories groundbreaking online and real space piece, Extremely Public Displays of Privacy; Theatre Novi Most’s Rehearsing Failure, and most recently what i want now i will want later.