Rena Cherry Brown

Non-Union
Height: 5'4" Weight: 120lbs.
Hair: Auburn Age Range: 50 & up
Plays
God's Honest Truth (March-April, 2015) Theatre J
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to
Capitalism and Socialism With a Guide To The Scriptures
Clio Theatre J
The Love of the Nightingale Niobe Constellation Theatre
The Best Man Mrs. Gamadge The Keegan Theatre
The Full Monty7 Jeannette The Keegan Theatre
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You Sister mary Bay Theatre Company
August: Osage County Violet Weston4 The Keegan Theatre5
Hedda Gabler Auntie Julianna SCENA Theatre
Wit Dr. Vivian Bearing2 Bay Theatre Company
Rumple Who? The Queen Bay Theatre Company
The Foreigner Betty Meeks Bay Theatre Company
Scorched Nawal, Nazira Forum Theatre
Public Enemy Mrs. Black SCENA Theatre
The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Bay Theatre Company
Woman and Scarecrow Auntie Ah Solas Nua
Alice at Dawn6 Alice More Churchill Theatre
This Storm Is What We Call Progress The Woman with the Silver Skin; Another Woman Rorscharch Theatre
Driving Miss Daisy Daisy Worthan Churchill Theatre
The Lion in Winter Queen Eleanor Churchill Theatre
The Balcony Madame Irma SCENA Theatre
Tartuffe Mdme Parnelle Bay Theatre Company
The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Bay Theatre Company; Avalon Theatre
Arms and The Man Catherine Bay Theatre Company
Blithe Spirit Mrs. Bradman Olney Theatre
Orpheus Descending Dolly Hamma Arena Stage (Molly Smith, Dir)
Painted Alice 6 roles H Street Playhouse
Da Mother Rep Stage
Blood Wedding Mother Washington Shakespeare Company
Hayfever Clara Olney Theatre & Cape Playhouse
The Notebook of Trigorin Irina Arkadina The Keegan Theatre
In Good Company Queen Eliz I Horizons Theatre
Metamorphosis Mother Washington Shakespeare Company
A Delicate Balance Claire1 American Century Theatre
Peoria Jane
(2 char. play)
The Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Peer Gynt (understudy) 4 roles w appear. The Shakespeare Theatre
Richard III Elizabeth II Washington Shakespeare Company
Nietsche Ate Here Cheryl3 Source Theatre Festival
Twelfth Night Maria Washington Shakespeare Company
Sis. Mary Ignatius Tells It All For You Sister Mary SCENA Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Washington Shakespeare Company
A Small Family Business Harriet Olney Theatre

Rena is an Associate Artist with The Bay Theatre Company

1 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress

2 Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role, Resident Production

3 Outstanding Actress - Source Summer Theatre Festival

4 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in Resident Production

5 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play

6 Available for performance

7 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical

Other Experience

Radio voice-overs; commercials; industrials; AAAS Radio: weekly voice on "Kenetic City Super Crew"; The Learning Channel: Great Books Series: "Pride and Prejudice", Mrs. Bennett.

Readings, Staged Readings

Page to Stage – Kennedy Center; Roundhouse; SCENA; First Light Series Theatre of the First Amendment; Signature Theatre, Writer’s Center – New Playwrights' Series with Ernie Joslowitz.

Special Abilities

Accents, dialects, belly dancer