Tender Hooks

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 long ago from the University of Utah with a BFA in theatre performance. Before getting her law degree, she 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 professor at the University of Utah’s SJ Quinney College of Law. Her law practice is primarily focused on freeing the innocent from prison and advocating for the wrongfully convicted. Recently, Jensie played Sarah Weddington in Pygmalion Productions’ staged reading of ROE and is thrilled to be performing without script in hand for the first time since becoming a lawyer. #comingbacktomyroots #terrifying

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.