| BRENDA HUBBARD has more than 35 years of experience
as a professional actor, director and artistic director, having
worked with some of the leading theatres in the nation including
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland
Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre,
The Empty Space Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Salem Repertory and
San Jose Repertory Theatre, to name several. A graduate of the Professional
Actor Training Program at the University of Washington, she also
earned her MFA in directing from the University of Portland after
working professionally in regional repertory theatre for 15 years.
A member of the Actor's Equity Association since 1978 and the American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists since 1975, Hubbard has
appeared in hundreds of radio and television commercials, as well
as several feature films and television shows. In the summer of
2007 Brenda played the role of Lucille Cadeau, in Alan Ayckbourn's
House and Garden for Artists Repertory Theatre
in Portland, a part that required her to learn 45 pages of dialogue
in French and without any training or back ground in the language.
Summer of 2008 found her directing Bad Dates for Salem
Repertory Theatre. In addition to her professional career, Brenda
has been an esteemed member of the theatre faculty at Central Washington
University for over 17 years, where she serves as the Head of Performance.
In March 2009 she appeared as an Equity Guest Artist performing
the role of Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie for
Columbia Basin College. During the summer and fall of 2009 her work
as director was showcased at the IFCC Theatre in Portland, in the
new, feminist performance piece that explores the sexual fantasies
of women, Inviting Desire, which toured to critical acclaim
in Canada appearing at three Fringe Festivals. This production was
produced by Dance Naked Productions with creator/actor/producer
Eleanor O'Brien and ensemble. Fall of 2008 Hubbard directed Two
Gentlemen of Verona and in fall of 2009 she directed Stop
Kiss, both for Central Theatre Ensemble. For the 2010-2011
season she will be working for Central Theatre Ensemble once again,
directing the robust Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife
by William Wycherley, written in 1675.
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