Annabel is a multidisciplinary theatre artist hailing from Portland, Oregon. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, where she coproduced and performed in a three-year series of experimental performance labs (UGLy). Their current artistic interests center around devising processes, Viewpoints & Suzuki practice, Surrealism and Neomodernism, and cultivating sensory richness onstage. In her final year of college, she completed an (as yet) unauthorized stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Annabel is interested in making work that is visceral and immediate in form and content: catharsis and color. She strives to be in conversation both with contemporary media, tech, and culture and the reality of the human as a self-domesticated wild animal.

They recently completed a year creating with the Institute for Contemporary Performance 21-22 cohort (PETE). 

Annabel is working on cultivating her athleticism, listening skills, and self assurance.

In her free time she enjoys walking around and looking at stuff.

Up Next

  • ENDURANCE the boat, the show.

    Starring Olivia Mathews and Akitora Ishii

    Directed by Annabel Cantor with Movement Direction by Leiana Petlewski

    Devised in collaboration with the ensemble.

    More info here

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  • Major stuff on the horizon! Details soon.

  • Upcoming November 2024

    Following a work-in-progress showing titled Horse Piece (PETE’s Scratch, November 2023), this residency will consist of a reimagining of Peter Shaffer’s Equus. Annabel and Kai Hynes perform, with direction by Tim Wagoner.

    “We are interested in inviting fluidity: fluidity of identity and character, fluidity of relationship and power dynamic, fluidity between what is ‘human’ and what is ‘animal,’ and perhaps a playful redefinition of terms.”

    Public performance date coming soon.

2023 in a nutshell