Tender Hooks

This is Jane’s first appearance with Pygmalion Productions. She has worked in various theaters across the Wasatch Front and holds a BA in Theatre from USU. She has performed with Walk-Ons over the last seven years in Portrait of a Caregiver. Favorite past roles include: Emma — Over the River and Through the Woods,Betty — The Foreigner, M’Lynn– Steel Magnolias, Veta– Harvey, Miss Skillon — See How They Run, and Jesse — ‘Night, Mother. Margery — Tender Hooks, now joins the list of favorites, because how could you not love that diatribe on cats? And, because she gets to share the stage for the very first time with her BFF of 40 years!

Brenda Hattingh has been active in the Salt Lake theater community since 2015, collaborating with companies like PYGmalion, Plan-B Theatre, and Sackerson. She has enjoyed various roles, including playing Mother in Shockheaded Peter and Lavinia in Julie Jensen’s Two Headed. Recently, Brenda co-founded Immigrant’s Daughter, a theater company, alongside local playwright/director Morag Shepherd and actress/playwright Ariana Farber. She is excited to be working with SLAC for the first time.

Addie is currently a senior at UVU getting her BFA in musical theatre performance. She just returned from an internship in NYC with Ryan Scott Olivers Actors Therapy. Recent shows include: MOCKINGBIRD (UVU young audiences touring company),PIRATES OF PENZANCE(UVU), I HATE HAMLET(UVU),KING STAG(UVU), BACKSTAGE BERNIE(JSK Studios), ARCHIPELAGO (Harrington center for the arts), GINGERBREAD (Harrington Center for the arts), and has been a finalist for the Irene Ryan Awards at KCACTF for three years. Addie has also had many odd jobs ranging from working at a horse ranch in Idaho to foley artistry and everything in between. Addie is SO FUGGIN’ EXCITED TO BE IN MOTHER OF THE MAID!!!!!! Thank you so much to the brilliant cast and team behind this show and her family who’s been behind her whole life. Make sure to hug your pets.

Jensie graduated from the University of Utah a long time ago with a BFA in theatre performance, and not as long ago with a JD from the SJ Quinney College of Law. Before getting her law degree, Jensie worked at Houston’s Alley Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and in New York City. She has been a practicing attorney for 31 years and is a law professor at her alma mater. Her law practice is primarily focused on advocating for the wrongfully convicted. Since her joyful return to the theatre, Jensie has played Sarah Weddington in a staged reading of Roe and Lady of the Court in Mother of the Maid, both at Pygmalion Productions. All of this is possible because Jensie has the best husband and daughter in the world, and an incredible BFF.

Fran has been in active in the Salt Lake Theatre Community for 30+ years. As such, she has done projects here and there and everywhere. Fran Pruyn leads the Marketing Department as Director. She’s been in the industry for thirty years, and with CRSA for seventeen, directing public relations and marketing as well as having her hand [foot and elbow] in business development and client relations. To sum up Fran: she’s all about helping the company and all the people inside of it grow.

Julie is Utah’s most-produced playwright. She grew up in Beaver, Utah, and graduated from College of Southern Utah and Utah State University, receiving a B.A. and M.A. in English. She also holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit. Having taught playwriting as a guest at more than a dozen colleges and universities, she was a professor of theatre at Saint Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame and directed the graduate playwriting program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She also spent five years working as a writer in Hollywood. She now makes her home in Salt Lake City where she works with several theatres. Jensen has written more than 30 plays, all of which have been professionally produced. PYGmalion has produced several of them, including LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER, CHEAT, WAIT, MOCKINGBIRD, and MOTHER MOTHER.