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
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