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Shannon Knapp

Shannon is the Director of Marketing for the Pittsburgh Playhouse

Shannon Knapp (she/her/hers) is a communications professional, director, and sound designer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a director she strives to create radically collaborative rehearsal rooms and came to the world of communications through this work. Shannon believes that theatremakers must innovate by looking to the emergence of new forms and concepts, which informs how she approaches communications. Shannon believes in disrupting the marketing status quo, and striving to create spaces for the equitable flow of ideas.

She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh and most recently served as Communications Manager for HowlRound. Shannon has spent the last decade developing plays and irreverent publicity schemes with her close collaborators at Non-State Actors, the Pittsburgh Classic Players, and folkLAB, as well as working frequently with off the WALL productions and Throughline Theatre Company. When not making theatre, she loves to read novels, play Dungeons and Dragons, and take way too many pictures of her cat.

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