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Sound Theatre celebrated many successes in 2020, including strengthening our practice in accessibility. We’re excited to introduce a person who played a huge role in this, our Accessibility Coordinator Annie Jankovic! Our interview questions are in bold text and Annie’s responses are in plain text.
What do you do at Sound Theatre?
I am the Accessibility Coordinator, as well as one of the House Managers!
How did you get started working with Sound Theatre?
I got started in the summer of 2019, when I was hired to be the House Manager for the summer season. I really felt like it was fate, because I was acting in a production of The Winter’s Tale with Willy’s Dead Productions that same summer, and the one weekend we had off for Sound was our performance weekend!
Can you tell me about some of the art that you do?
Oh man, I feel like I have a hand in so many different kinds. I think primarily, in my heart, I’m always an actor first and foremost. I also direct, stage manage, sing, write and perform poetry (mostly about disability), and my favorite hobby is drawing. I’m trying to teach myself to be more comfortable with paint over this quarantine, and am also getting better at quilting.
What makes you passionate about theatre/the arts?
Theatre, to me, will never die because it represents a fundamental part of human nature, which is the attempt to be understood through connecting with other people. The connection comes from being in the room, from being with your audience live, and it’s the coolest thing to me. You know when you experience something in a play, and you know that it was different, and on the breath, and that the exact same experience will never happen again? I love that.
I also believe theatre is the most approachable art form to be able to connect with each other. I truly believe community theatre is more important than whatever’s going on on Broadway, because it’s usually people coming together just because they want to, just because they feel they have a story to tell together, to their own specific community. As long as you’ve got some people and a spirit, you can do theatre, no other requirements.
What’s a personal/professional accomplishment that you are most proud of?
Presenting on my first panel for Sound, with Teresa and Andrea, was a big moment for me. In acting, it was when I got to perform in a one act play I wrote my final quarter in college, and I got to play a diabetic for the first time.
What’s something cool about yourself that other people might not know?
I like to juggle. I also have a strong disdain for colored pencils.
About Annie:
Annie Jankovic began her Sound Theatre journey two years ago as a house manager. In the last year, Annie played a key role in accessibility and programming, including managing our Crossroads in Theatre series, implementing access policies, and organizing live captioning and ASL interpretation for rehearsals, workshops, and performances.
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