{Trisha Pancio}

Department: Marketing

Position/Title: PR & Publications Manager

Your Hometown: Sarasota, Florida

What do you love and/or miss about your hometown? It was the winter home of the circus, and it had all these amazing buildings built by John Ringling, including an Italian palazzo he had deconstructed, shipped and rebuilt right on the bay.

When you were young what did you want to be when you grew up? In order: 1. Solid Gold Dancer 2. Actor 3. Environmental Engineer 4. Director

Favorite part of your job: photoshoots- its like directing a 1 second play.

Hobbies? Burning man, cyberpunk, food in all its glorious forms.

pet? Nope. Got a 7 year old. That’s enough to clean up after.

What was your first job? Concessionairre in a movie theater.

What was the last book you read? Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Highly recommend it. He imagined in 1988 just about everything about the digital revolution. Fascinating stuff.
Movie? Just got the first season of Mad Men on DVD. Does that count?
Play? Doubt at PCS, I think.

What is something most people don’t know about you?
I’m a closet introvert. If I don’t get at least 12 hours a day away from people, I get all snarly and start to foam at the mouth.

What sets PCS apart from other places you have worked?
There’s a real sense of our work being relevant on a national stage, and that changes the context of everything we produce.

Who is one of your biggest inspirations and why? Edna St. Vincent Millay. She was smart, sexy determined, and amazing with words. Flouted every convention of her time and women just loved her for it. Also quite famously got in an argument with an opera company because she was writing the book for an opera called The Henchmen set in Anglo-Saxon England and she insisted that every word used be either of Angle or Saxon extraction. Now that’s being a wordsmith!

What is something you are absolutely passionate about? Cheese. No seriously. I’ve never met a cheese plate I didn’t like.
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