Making Waves Week 4B: Young Hot Thespian, Annie Jankovic
Friday, November 12
Young Hot Thespian
I’ll Teach You How to Flow
Play Reading – If Shakespeare was in the URL would he be undefeated?
ID: two young Black men, Brandon and Tre, sit outside looking to the right. Brandon (closer) has some medium facial hair and a green cap, and Tre wears a gray t-shirt and gold accessories, matching the background behind them.
Annie Jankovic
Ghosts of Living Flesh
One-Act Play – 2 young diabetic women meet in an endocrinologist’s waiting room – one at the beginning of her diabetic journey, and one fearing she might be near the end. In this liminal space between life and death, each of them finds an unlikely friend and ally in the other. Because when you’re already a ghost in this life, what else do you have to lose?
ID: a headshot portrait of Annie, a white woman with long auburn hair in pig tails in front of her. She wears a pastel peach-colored tie-die shirt and jean overalls, as well as glasses, earrings, and a small black choker.
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Artist Bios
Tre Scott & Brandon JonesMooney
Tre Scott & Brandon JonesMooney are two multi-hyphenated artists from the Bay Area. Both graduates of the Pacific Conservatory Theatre and Cornish College of the Arts. They are founding members of the Young Hot Thespian collective. They’ve performed together in “The Brothers Size” as Oshoosi and Ogun Size (Young Hot Thespian) and “Endgame” as Hamm and Clov (Young Hot Thespian). They also have written together for the ongoing digital series “Black 365” (Young Hot Thespian)
Annie Jankovic
Annie is excited to be performing for STC for the first time! She is the Accessibility Coordinator and one of the Front of House managers for STC, so she’s very happy to be working on stage, not just behind it, for this festival. She wrote this piece, Ghosts of Living Flesh, when she was a senior in college, just shy of 21 and going through medical complications herself. Today, it feels more apt than ever to get to discuss disability, mortality, and all the contradictions that come between, and she’s glad to have the space to do so here. Annie is also influenced in this piece by her own diabetic advocacy work. To learn more about the struggles diabetics face in America, go to T1International.com. And if you want a more direct method of helping diabetics in need, she recommends going to Mutual Aid Diabetes, or looking up “insulin” on GoFundMe.com and giving where you can. Huge thanks to all her collaborators on this project.
Also performing: Karli Reinbold, Andreya Pro
Dramaturg: Jay Sharma
Also performing this week are Brian Dang and Rose Cano.
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This event is sponsored by Crip Riot.