Annie Enneking

Annie Enneking is lover and a fighter. She writes unflinchingly vivid and nuanced songs about being a person in a world full of people, and frankly about having a body at a particular place in time. Her songs run the spectrum from dreamfolk and artpop to dark rock and grunge blues, inside of which sit her incisive and emotionally daring lyrics. She fronts and founded the mischievous rock band, Annie and the Bang Bang, and, as a more mellow, acoustic-based singer-songwriter, gets to the heart of the matter on albums like what i want now i will want later and Lyndale & 24th - her intimate song cycle about being twenty-something in the Minneapolis of the 90s - where everything is spare and true and hurts just right. She is currently working with an acoustic sideshow band to bring gothic tales of barren landscapes and unrepentant oracular misfits to life in a developing suite entitled girl in a cabin songs.

Annie is a 2010 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow and has twice received a Minnesota State Arts Board Music Grant and support from the Jerome Foundation and Minnesota Regional Arts Council to further her work as a theatre/music maker. She has had a hand in creating four original theater music works: The Joans, an original rock and roll theater concert; New Paradise Laboratories’ groundbreaking online and real space piece, Extremely Public Displays of Privacy; Theatre Novi Most’s Rehearsing Failure, and what i want not i will want later, a sumptuous music performance piece based on the myth of the Sirens, made with Samantha Johns. It was part fight club, part theater piece, part EP release party for an album of the same name.

Annie is a fight director, used-to-be-actor, teaching artist, director, mother wife, and friend.