Bio

NEXT UP: Peg in SIX YEARS for the Humana Festival
at Actors Theatre of Louisville in KY, March 7-April 1, 2006.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.actorstheatreoflouisville.org

MARNI PENNING is a northern Virginia native and co-founder of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, for whom she has performed over 35 roles in 10 seasons, including Juliet, Kate, Rosalind, Beatrice, and Hamlet. She now resides in New York City, where she has appeared on Saturday Night Live (burning a Martha Stewart cookbook on live national television), and in Julia Roberts'; recent film Mona Lisa Smile, and was seen onstage most recently in the beat poetry rock musical Subway Train.

Marni has performed steadily on New York stages for the past four years as well as appearing in several short films; regionally, favorite roles include Luciana in Comedy of Errors and Catherine in Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC), Ashley in After Ashley and Mom in Big Death and Little Death (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Helen in Machinal (American Century Theater), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Georgia Shakespeare), Adriana in Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Theatre and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Mrs. Manningham in Gaslight (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Myra and Myrna in The Mineola Twins (Human Race Theatre, OH) and Shelby in Steel Magnolias (Wayside Theatre, VA).