Annie Clarke (she/her) is an arts leader and producer.
After nearly a decade in Toronto’s arts community, Annie returned to her hometown of Vancouver in late 2024. She has also lived and worked in Montreal, New York, and Paris.
In February 2025, Annie was appointed Managing Director of Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, a co-leadership position alongside Artistic Director Gabrielle Martin.
From 2022-2024 Annie worked on more than twenty productions as Producer at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre. Highlights included Three Sisters by Inua Ellams, After Chekhov, directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu (2024 Dora Award for Outstanding Production, General Theatre; Co-Production with Obsidian Theatre); ‘Da Kink in My Hair by Trey Anthony, directed by Weyni Mengesha (Co-Production with TO Live); Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring, directed by Jani Lauzon (Co-Production with Native Earth); and three world premieres: Queen Goneril by Erin Shields, directed by Weyni Mengesha, Bad Parent by Ins Choi, directed by Meg Roe (Co-Production with Prairie Theatre Exchange and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre), and Wildwoman, written and directed by Kat Sandler.
Annie also acted as the lead producer for Soulpepper’s new play development program and the Slaight Music residency program, and worked on multi-disciplinary projects such as The Trial of Uncle Tom (short documentary film by Lucius Dechausay, featuring Travis Knights) and the outdoor concert series Live From The Stage Door, and led Soulpepper’s participation in the 2023-2024 Balancing Act Compassion Fund Cohort with Theatre Direct.
At Soulpepper, Annie was fortunate to work under the leadership of Weyni Mengesha (Artistic Director), Gideon Arthurs (Executive Director), and Jonathan Heppner (Executive Producer).
Previously, Annie spent four years working at Generator, an arts service organization focused on artist producers, under the leadership of Kristina Lemieux. She was also the General Manager of Groundling Theatre Company (Artistic Director Graham Abbey), where she was the Associate Producer for Chris Abraham’s Julius Caesar (co-production with Crow’s Theatre).
Other independent producing has included the world premieres of Taliesin McEnaney’s Brain Storm (Lucid Ludic in association with Why Not Theatre) and Thom Nyhuus' Cannibal (Scrap Paper Theatre at the Next Stage Theatre Festival).
Additionally, Annie has worked in various capacities with Discord and Din Theatre, Shakespeare in the Ruff, One Little Goat, Studio 180 Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, and Vancouver’s F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement).
Annie is a third generation settler by way of Ukraine on her maternal side, Scotland on her paternal side. She spent much of her career in Tkaronto (where the trees meet the water) on the ancestral territories of the the Anishinaabe, including the Mississaugas of the Credit first nation, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat. She was born and raised, and now once again lives, in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples.
Photo by Dahlia Katz