Brenna created the Body Intelligence movement modality and has been teaching it for nearly 20 years. Body Intelligence developed out of Brenna’s artistic practices. An amalgamation of her toolbox, she draws from her various training as an actor, dancer and teacher. She is a certified teacher of the Lucid Body (Fay Simpson) and Vinyasa Yoga (Sankalpah College of Yoga). She is a founding member of the Allan Wayne Work Alliance with her teachers Brendan McCall and Paul Langland. She has been an associate and adjunct professor of Acting, Scene Study, Acting for the Camera and Movement at the Yale School of Drama Summer Conservatory, Pace University and New York University as well as a teaching artist at Stella Adler Studios, Terry Knickerbocker Studio, HB Studio and Lucid Body House. She is currently on the faculty of HB’s Core Program and NYU Tisch Drama’s New Studio on Broadway. She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and BFA in Acting with a minor in Queer Theory from Marymount Manhattan College.
Other training includes the Professional Trainee Program at Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, advanced teacher trainings at Kula Yoga, anatomy courses with Lauren Haythe, Tom Myers, Gil Hedley, and acting training with The Actors Center, where she has been a company member for over 10 years. She is the artistic director of the physical theater company, Virago and served as the Associate Director of the Lucid Body House Performance Salon Series for many years. She is passionate about theater for social change and has worked with IMPACT Theatre’s Veterans Project since its inception.
As a communication consultant, she has facilitated and taught DEI, leadership, team building, caregiver and communication programming to corporate leaders, professional athletes, veterans, all branches of the military, The US House of Representatives staff and Congress.
As an actor Brenna has appeared on and off Broadway, in downtown and regional theater, on Showtime, HBO, ABC, NBC, USA, Vimeo, Amazon, and in various films. She works regularly as a performer with video artists and has choreographed and movement directed for films, music videos and plays.
Learn more about Body Intelligence at bodyintelligencenyc.com.