Biography

Serena Ebhardt -    Professional acting credits include Off Broadway: Winding The Ball (American Premiere, Mint Theatre/Coal).  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 (Stephenville Festival); European Concert Tour: France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland. Film: 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.  Awards:  ITVA Silver Reel Award, YWCA Academy of Women, 2003 DAC Emerging Artist.

Directing credits include- National Tours: Dar He: The Murder of Emmett Till, The Night Before Christmas Carol, The Wrights of Passage, Anne Frank and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever .  Regional: The Foreigner (Sandhills Theatre Company), Fit To Be Tied (Manbites Dog Theatre),  The Long Christmas Dinner, A Christmas Memory (Hedgerow Theatre).  University and Community: 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.

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.  In 2004, Serena's theatre company, EbzB Productions, received the NCTC Constance Welsh Award.  EbzB Productions is a nationally recognized professional touring theatre founded by Serena and her husband, David zum Brunnen in 1998.

Teaching Positions - 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.

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.