Annette is a co-founder of both The Freewill Shakespeare Festival (FSF) and SkirtsAfire HerArts Festival where she is currently the Festival Director. Favorite performances over the past 25 years include, Bloody Poetry for Northern Light (Sterling Nomination); The Last Train for Shadow, My One and Only and Homesick for Workshop West; A Christmas Carol and Julius Caesar for The Citadel; Rabbit Hole for ATP Calgary; and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Sterling Nomination), Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Hermione in A Winters Tale, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III for the FSF. She also wrote and performed in The Passion for Mary at The beloved Roxy Theatre.