Adjunct Professor of Effective Speech and Oral Communication & Presentation Adjunct Professor of Effective Speech and Oral Communication & PresentationAdjunct Professor of Winning Presentations, School of Business
Irene Kuykendall (she/her) is an educator, actor, and director with a Masters in Text & Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and conservatory training from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Education experience includes serving as Virginia Repertory Theatre’s Education Manager for 6 years, working as a trained Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, a Disney Musicals in Schools Teaching Artist, and as the Theatre Production and Theatre Performance teacher at Midlothian High School. Acting credits include Maria in The Sound of Music (JFT); The Woman in The 39 Steps, Meg Magrath in Crimes of the Heart, and Actress 1 in Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Virginia Rep), The Woman in Holmes and Watson (Swift Creek Mill), Mad Mary in Songs From Bedlam (Firehouse Theatre), and Lizzy Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, and Cordelia in King Lear (Richmond Shakes). Directing credits include GASLIGHT (Swift Creek Mill), A Broadway Christmas (Virginia Rep), The Addams Family and ALL SHOOK UP young@part (Virginia Rep’s Summer Showtime), The Good Fight (ARGS), and CLUE and MEAN GIRLS (Midlothian HS).