website © Brenna 2002-2010

Brenna moved to New York City in 2002 from Portland, Oregon, where she had been working as a music director, accompanist, vocal coach, composer and arranger since 1986. She also has numerous credits as an actor, singer and dancer. Professional theatre credits (music direction, composition, sound design or acting) include:

Off Broadway: Big Apple Circus, American Girls Revue, Assistant Music Director.

Off-Off-Broadway: Chess, The Full Monty, Bachelorette, 4Play, Nunsense, Torch Song Trilogy, Urinetown, and Puck’d (a punk rock adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream – for which she composed the music with Billy Atwell).

She has been rockin’ since fourth grade, when she kept her classmates in for recess to start their own rock band. The rock band thing was actually successful in ninth grade when she put together an all-girl band for a variety show in high school called the “Billion Dollar Babies”. Their one song, “Born to Be Wild” was learned from a book, and their faces were painted like the members of KISS.

Brenna attended Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, studying piano, clarinet, Javanese Gamelan, voice, conducting, acting, and dance. She received her BA from CUNY Hunter College in 2009 in Music with a minor in Theater, also studying French Language, modern French civilization and French women's literature. She recently wrote and performed in her second one-woman show, “Hebomia: Will the real Brenna please stand up?” after receiving a grant from the Performing Arts Fund at Hunter College. She is currently researching and writing a musical about 18th century French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges.