Serena Ebhardt
Acting credits include Off Broadway: Winding The Ball (American Premiere, Mint Theatre/BurningCoal). National Tour: War Bonds, The Parchman Hour (Mike Wiley Productions), Anne Frank. Regional: Alcestis, Chapter of Thanatos (92nd St. Y Unterburg Poetry Center, NYC-ASU), Travesties (Piccolo Spoleto Festival), The Beggar's Opera (PlayMakers Repertory Theatre), Sister Carrie(People's Light and Theatre Company), Pump Boys and Dinettes (Georgia Ensemble Theatre), A Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), and Uncle Tom's Cabin (Burning Coal Theatre Company), Various Roles for New River Dramatists Playwrights' Project. International credits - Canadian Tour: Nunsense. Canadian Regional: Nicholas Nickleby, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chicago, Rocky Horror Show, Little Shop of Horrors (Stephenville Festival); European Concert Tour: France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland. Film: hulu/DOPESICK, The Dead Poet's Society, The Lemon Sisters, Because of You, Postcards, Birthmark (adapted from Doris Betts story), and David Huling (screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival); Television Commercials: Toyota, New York Carpet World, NC Symphony in Meymandi Hall, Nike, and Duke Medical Center.
Directing credits include National Tours/World Premieres: Native, Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name, Mike Wiley’s Dar He: The Murder of Emmett Till, The Night Before Christmas Carol, The Wrights of Passage, Anne Frank, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Nnenna Freelon’s The Clothesline Muse (Painted Bride Arts Center). Regional: The Foreigner (Sandhills Theatre Company), Fit To Be Tied (Manbites Dog Theatre), The Long Christmas Dinner, A Christmas Memory (Hedgerow Theatre). College and Community: Johnny Johnson, Search for Signs of Intelligent Life, Where It's All Warm and Secret, Chamber Music, and The Tempest. Serena also adapts, arranges and directs the offerings of EbzB Productions including Lewis and Clark: The Corps of Discovery, Nicholas Nickleby in One Hour with Two People, Brown v. Board of Education, War Bonds, In One Era and Out The Other, Madame Defarge's Tale of A-Tro-Cities, Sketches of Young Couples by Boz, Dickens: Food and Froth, Marriage Vows and Modern Verbiage, etc.
Playwright: Brown V. Board of Education, In One Era and Out The Other, Lewis & Clark: Corps of Discovery, Madam DeFarge’s Tale of Atrocities, Marriage Vows and Modern Verbiage, War Bonds, Wrights of Passage. Co-editor with Tim Carter of the performance version of Johnny Johnson by Paul Green and Kurt Weill (2014).
Theatre Administration - Artistic Director, EbzB Productions; Producer and General Manager, Temple Theatre; Publicist and Company Member, Hedgerow Theatre; Publicist, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Opera Company of North Carolina, Burning Coal Theatre Company; Freelance Publicist, NC Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Theatre Conference, among others. EbzB Productions is a nationally recognized professional touring theatre founded by Serena and her husband, David zum Brunnen in 1998.
Teaching - Guest Professor/Director at UNC- Chapel HIll. Visiting Professor of Drama: Peace College, St. Mary's College, Sanderson High School, Raleigh Charter High School, St. Michael's Catholic School, Media Friends School. Headmaster and Acting Teacher of Stephenville Festival Academy of Drama in Newfoundland, Canada. Student and Teacher Workshops & Residencies and Private Coaching through EbzB Productions Arts-in-Education programs. Serena is recognized by the NC Arts Council and the South Carolina Touring Roster as a professional teaching artist. Serena works regularly in North Carolina Schools as a visiting artist.
Education - NC Governor's School in Drama; Bachelor of Arts, UNC Chapel Hill (Paul Green Scholar); Hedgerow Theatre School with Rose Schulman and Ralph Roseman- Master Acting.
Teaching Artist Training - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Artists as Educators: Planning Effective Workshops, The Lincoln Center Institute for International Educators, The National Center for Creative Aging.
Membership - Actors' Equity Association, Canadian Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild.
Awards Cantey Award (1980), Charter Inductee of YWCA Academy of Women (1984), ITVA Silver Reel Award (1999), DAC Emerging Artist (2003), North Carolina Theatre Conference’s Constance Welsh Theatre For Youth Award (2004), North Carolina Literary and Historical Associations’ Hardee Rives Award for Dramatic Arts (2017).