Hey there, I’m Annie McGovern, an Actor, Artistic Director, Producer and Singer.

ACTOR

Trained at Rutgers and subsequently at the William Esper Studio in NYC, Annie has studied with some of the greats- including Bill Esper, Maggie Flanagan, Barbara Marchand & Terry Knickerbocker. Also in NYC with Tim Phillips and Thomas G Waites and Carol Rosenfeld. An award winning actress, most recently nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the 2017 Planet Connections Festival. A finalist at The Actor Studio several times over just this year was thrilled to be made a member of The Actors Center.

A proud member of AEA, Annie has performed extensively in New York theater. Credits include the Off Broadway Productions of Constellations, Golden Ladder and the long-running hit, Six Goumbas and a Wannabe. Annie created the role of Harmony in the one woman piece From Whence You Came by DB Magid, 2016 Planet Connections Nominee. Featured in countless productions throughout the city including the upcoming World Premiere of Soundview Summer by Kaye Gill at Theater Lab this November.

Also a member SAG, some of Annie's film work includes The Stand In, Leaving on Arrival, The Look and award winning short films- Choose and Tout La Vie (London independent Film Festival).

Television-Guiding Light and the PBS special The Letter.

Other performance related work includes, serving as guest teacher at the TGW acting school as well as the NY School for Film and Television's Summer acting program.

And the great honor to have served as assistant to the acclaimed Directors Estelle Parsons-for The Actor's Studio production of Dark Laughter and Thomas G Waites for his Taming of the Shrew at The Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Producer

Also a co owner and executive producer with the training company- Simulations Inc. Marge McGovern, Annie's mother, started this company 40 years ago, and along with Annie's Dad Joe, created this amazing ensemble that continues to grow and thrive.

All of our work is AEA & SAG signatory, we use actors to create corporate training that offers our participants a place to realistically practice whatever skill it is they need to work on.

We have been completely blessed with a still growing group of actors we truly consider family. This year alone we have had the great pleasure of offering employment to over 100 or so of some of the most gifted actors from across the country.

Annie serves several integral roles within the organization. Including creating our programming, staffing/casting all of our events, on boarding staff, principal client liaison, on site producer, program facilitator.

Throughout her tenure with the organization, Annie has been involved in the creation and development of all of our program offerings in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device sectors. Focusing on the organization of each program, Annie works closely in collaboration with a wide range of our clients' internal departments, including Field Sales, Marketing, Training, Human Resources, Organizational Development and compliance.

Check out our website simulationsinc.com.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Annie is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Three Graces Theater Company. Our small yet mighty company, created in 2004, made its mark in downtown theater with our passion for telling Women's stories and developing new works.

On hiatus at present, (we shall return!).....

Our 8 years of active producing saw us helm over 10 full length Main Stage productions, with an equal amount of second stage offerings presented in Rep. Our semi annual Spring Shorts, short form play evenings, featured over 30 new short plays, several finalists in the Sam French Festival.

Throughout our tenure we are unbelievably proud to say that we welcomed over 270 guest artists. Actors as well as musicians as part of our mission to incorporate musical elements to each of our productions- often featuring live music as part of the staging. Intermissions sometimes became full out dance parties!

Notable producing highlights include the NYC Premier of Nickel & Dimed, World Premieres of (company member) Sharyn Rothstein's A Good Farmer and Robin Rice Lichtig's The Power of Birds.

Some of the amazing artists we were thrilled to have gotten to work with, before they sprung out into the spotlight, include actors Noah Galvin (the Real O'Neills, Dear Evan Hanson) DeWanda Miller (Shots Fired, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It) Will Harper (The Good Place) & Lucy Walters (Power).

And Directors- Seret Scott (Native Son-Yale Rep & Chicago's Court Theater, Sundance Institute) Lila Neugebauer (The Antipodes, Everybody, The Wolves....).

As we grew so did our desire to focus more and more on the development of new works. Through our association with the wonderful talents at EST's Youngblood, we met and collaborated with such esteemed, and now highly celebrated, Playwrights as Sharyn Rothstein (Hester Street, upcoming Bway) Rob Askins (Hand to God) and Chiara Atik (5 Times in One Night). Other notable collaborations- Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Steppenwolf) Kelly Younger (Disney Animation Studios) and Arlene Hutton (As it is in Heaven).

Our reading series Sips&Scripts, set in a non traditional/informal pub like setting, allowed us to take a first look at many of these playwright's work and get a sense from the audience in attendance how the plays affected them.

Our love of creating new works culminated in one of our proudest accomplishments as a company- the commissioning, aided by the generous funding from NY DCA, a new musical called Beauty Queen. Book by 3G company member Sharyn Rothstein and music by Kris Kukul (The Last Goodbye, David Byrne's Joan of Arc: Into the Fire Public Theater). The story of the Hebrew Queen Hester set in modern day and refocused through the lens of our society's obsession with youth, celebrity and beauty.

Our full concert performance at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center was a dazzling sold out event, receiving some of our most enthusiastic responses.