Shannon Light Hadley
Description: Since its founding in 2008, the Annex Theater has become the leader and go-to for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance in Baltimore.
Since 2008, the Annex Theater has produced over 50 plays, embarked on three national tours, held community workshops for performance and devising, and become the leader and go-to for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance in Baltimore . Most importantly, the Annex has helped to create a thriving experimental performance culture in the city that extends beyond the traditional theatre space, constantly embarking into unknown creative territory where risk is everything and the strange is cheris
The Baltimore Annex Theater was founded in 2008 as a warehouse venue and performance collective specializing in new works and radical theatrical adaptations of cult and classic works. These performance works have ranged wildly and adventurously over the years: from award-winning adaptations like the psychedelic film Fantastic Planet (2010) or Gertrude Stein’s The World is Round (2015) to tackling epic operas in alternative spaces like Three Penny Opera (2012), Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (2014), and T
Previous collaborations abroad include: Wham City, Black Cherry Puppet Theatre, Load of Fun Theatre, Maryland Institute College of Art, Johns Hopkins University, The Gossip Factory (NYC), Missoula Oblongata, Insurgent Theatre (Milwaukee), Bedlam Theatre (Minneapolis), the sorely-missed Copycat Theatre, and Baltimore City school teenagers.
Shannon Light Hadley