Trossbach one of USA Today’s ‘Faces of Pride’
Annette Trossbach has been included by USA Today in their “Faces of Pride” feature. Charles Runnells provided this insightful commentary on the reasons he chose to include her as Florida’s representative for this unique honor:
“Everyone’s voice deserves to be heard. And thanks to Annette Trossbach, LGBT youth in Southwest Florida have an audience.
“Trossbach and her Fort Myers theater company interviewed about 150 gay, lesbian and transgender students and turned their experiences into a series of theatrical scenes, stories, poems, monologues and songs.
“The resulting work, The Rauschenberg Project Play, debuted in 2016. The play got its name from a local 
foundation that helped fund it.
“Trossbach, who is straight but calls herself a longtime supporter and ally of the LGBT community, hopes to get the play published so other theaters can produce it. The Laboratory Theater of Florida is creating more programming to reach out to local LGBT youth.
“‘I want them to feel that they’re embraced,’ says Trossbach, Lab Theater’s founder and artistic director. ‘And that they’re needed and their voices are important.’”
Runnells and USA Today are just the latest to recognize Trossbach for the work she is doing at and through Lab Theater. Earlier this year, Annette made another top 50 
list when she was inducted by WGCU into their elite group of 50 Makers: Women Who Make Southwest Florida. To find out why, read here.
The photos here are from the mind and camera of the brilliant Mila Bridger.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.