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About Me

Hello! My name is Irene Denniston, and I'm a 22-year-old stage and film actress who has been irreparably and irrationally drawn to acting since before I could even read.  I was born in the Palisades in DC and grew up in Silver Spring, MD, taking acting and dance classes and performing in several plays a year. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Dramatic Art in May, where I took studio actor training alongside theatrical history and production/design classes, and acted in nine plays and seven short films. Most recently, I decided to further my classical training at Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training in the Berkshires, MA. I love how connected being an actor makes me feel to other people; it requires you to study and observe the human experience, to listen to everyone’s lives around you, and to bond with an audience through your shared humanness.

 

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Details

Height: 5'2"

Weight: 113

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Lt Brown

Voice: Mezzo Soprano

Education:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

BA Dramatic Art, 2025

Alpha Psi Omega

National Theatre Honor Society, 2025

Shakespeare & Company

Lenox, MA

Summer Shakespeare Intensive, 2025

Skills:

unarmed, knife, single sword

Lecoq clown training,

movement (viewpoints, Laban),

dance (contemporary, jazz).

Shakespeare, Chekhov.

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Location: Washington DC

Awards

BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMAMATIC PLAY 

Jack/Lord of The Flies/ Company Carolina/UNC Alpha Psi Omega          

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lilly/MOTH/Carolina Film Association

SENIOR PERFORMING ARTS AWARD

Sandy Spring Friends School

Reviews
Stage

Company Carolina | Hamlet | 2025

Polonius

NOMINATED: UNC APO Best Featured Actor in a Comedic Play

Company Carolina | 1984 | 2024

The Guard

NOMINATED: UNC APO Best Ensemble Actor in a Dramatic Play

Kenan Theatre Company | Failure: A Love Story | 2024

Jenny June Fail

NOMINATED: UNC APO Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Play

Kenan Theatre Company | The Seagull | 2024

Paulina

NOMINATED: UNC APO Best Featured Actor in a Dramatic Play

Company Carolina | Lord of the Flies | 2023

Jack Merridew

WON: UNC APO Best Lead Actor in a Dramatic Play

Company Carolina | Julius Caesar | 2023

Soothsayer

LAB! Theatre | The Most Massive Woman Wins! | 2022

Cel

LAB! Theatre | A Dawn Chorus | 2022

Chorus

Kenan Theatre Company | Anna K | 2021

Kitty

Sandy Spring Friends School | Radium Girls | 2019

Grace Fryer

Sandy Spring Friends School | Matilda | 2019

Big Kid/Dance Captain

Film

Carolina Film Association | Spaghetti and Me | 2025

Lead

NOMINATED: CFA Best Lead Actress

Carolina Film Association | We Will Decompose | 2025

Lead

Carolina Film Associaton | Bloodsucker | 2025

Lead

Carolina Film Associaton | Dead Guy | 2024

Lead

COMM 230 | Knock, Knock | 2023

Lead

Carolina Film Association | Moth | 2023

Supporting

WON: CFA Best Supporting Actress

COMM 337 | Up and Apart| 2022

Lead

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