Annie LouiKnown for her stunning theatrical hybrids, “Vibrant and exhilaratingly alive,” OC Weekly; Artistic Director, Annie Loui brings her physical theater sensibilities to CounterBalance Theater.
Reading Frankenstein 2019CRISPR can turn any living creature into something entirely new and different.
The Odyssey – 2015Blending contact improvisation skills with great literature 7 actors play a hundred characters, forces of nature, gods and architecture.
Longitude – 2017“CounterBalance Theater pried open the text and set every idea in motion”
Dava Sobel, author Longitude
A Christmas Carol – 2014cbslocal.com "Crown jewel of the UCI Drama Department director and choreographer Annie Loui captures the true drama and sentiment of Dickens' original work."
Mad Madge – 2019Famous as the first female science fiction writer, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) challenged ideas about science and women.
Longitude – 2017Dava Sobel’s New York Times bestseller, explores invention, engineering and obsession in the 18th c.
Mad Madge – 2019The Guardian
“Portrait of an author ahead of her time”
A Christmas Carol – 2014OC Register "'A Christmas Carol' replete with magic"
Reading Frankenstein 2019Human -Nature-Science-Technology Interaction” Fabiola Camuti, University of the Arts, NETHERLANDS
The Dwarf – 2013OC Weekly "Best Theatre We Never Write About 2013"
Jane Eyre – 2012Part ghost story, part romance, part feminist novel, Jane Eyre has enthralled for over one hundred and fifty years.
She – 2018“I was inordinately happy to hand the book over to the incandescently talented Annie Loui and her cast."
Michelle Latiolais, author of She