about the author      Serenity (usually referred to as Ren) is nineteen years old, a soon-to-be third year at Hampshire College, and really terrible at writing about herself in the third person. She is, in fact, working on this problem (as she will need to remedy it before becoming a Broadway big-shot who requires all sorts of third-person biographies). Until then, she apologizes to her readers.      Ren was born in Southern California to two musicians. She spent most of her early life commuting from Pasadena to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, attending schools, painting, planting cake trees, auditioning, going to theme parks, observatories, and the beach, writing short stories, playing all manner of card games... all the usual things associated with a young kid's life. When the time came, Ren went to a little place called LACHSA for her high school years. Here she studied theatre with thirty other strange children and had an overall good time (though she does not recommend the "trial by fire" voice method of throwing several backpacks and a chair on your back). Ren also began her obsession with experimental theatre at LACHSA, as she went through a variety of trainings, Suzuki and Commedia Dell'Arte among them. Film also became an interest -- she bought herself a Sony camcorder and began making a whole mess of short films. Most of them were terrible. Her real passion in the film world became editing, and she held the 2005 record for "most hours spent awake in the film lab editing final advanced film pieces."      In college, the true theatre obsession began. Her first year, Ren worked on fourteen shows and integrated herself firmly into the production process. Then, throughout her second year, she branched out from theatre, producing, directing, and acting in films, radio plays, and demonstrations in addition to her play-work. Most recently, she created a guerilla theatre group to produce her various experiments. Their first effort was a remaking of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater's War of the Worlds, which went rather splendidly. For the 2007 - 2008 season, they plan on producing four short plays independent of the theatre program at Hampshire.      At the moment, Ren is residing in Los Angeles for the summer, busy writing radio plays, sketching, and planning the GTAC season. In August, she'll return to the east coast to work on a short play and begin the recording of Sal and A Journey to Forget with Brian Carroll, John Kelly, and Conrad Kreyling. current interests · acting, directing, producing, and writing for theatre, film, and radio · other forms of experimental theatre (Suzuki/Viewpoints, Commedia Dell'Arte) · musical theatre · radio plays · artsplosions · interiour design · italic lower-case poetry · editing (of the film and word variety) · web and graphic design (both professionally and for fun) · poster design what's all this about "theatrical terrorism"?      No, I don't mean bombs. At least not the kind that kill people. Along with "guerilla theatre," theatrical terrorism is simply my version of the underground theatre movement. The basic concept involves flooding a concentrated area with all forms of theatre media: film, plays, radio (spoken word + music), and visual artwork. Sometimes, if I'm feeling particularly adventurous, I put all those together into one giant piece. But you can rest easy, the only explosives I'm throwing at people are those of the artistic variety.