Annie Russell Theatre

Florida · USA · Hospital

Annie Russell taught and directed at Rollins College in the early 1930s. Students working alone in the theatre named after her report that she intervenes.

The Annie Russell Theatre at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida is named for the woman who taught and directed there in the early 1930s, and she is widely believed to have stayed.

What sets this account apart is that she is not merely seen. Numerous people report having spoken to her.

The encounters students describe happen while they are working: rehearsing audition pieces, building sets, rigging lights. She turns up during the work rather than in the dark afterwards.

The story most often repeated concerns a student working alone on the lighting grid. He fell from the ladder. There was nobody else in the theatre.

What happened to him next is the reason the account is told at all, and it is the reason the theatre's traditions treat her as protective rather than as something to be frightened of.

A theatre named for a teacher, in which students say the teacher still turns up while they are working, is a gentler kind of haunting than most, and Rollins has never made much effort to discourage it.

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Hvor ligger Annie Russell Theatre?

Annie Russell Theatre ligger i Florida, USA.