Lenni Kmiec
Practitioner-Dramaturg-Performer
Actor's Equity Association
Recent News
Classes & Upcoming Projects
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Lenni is moving to Lincoln to join the faculty at the Nebraska Wesleyan University theatre department in August 2025!
This past May, Lenni directed Iowa Conservatory's spring musical: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee held at the James Theater.
Lenni is excited to make her NWU directorial debut next March with one of her favorite Shakespeare plays!
Lenni has been selected to teach Shakespeare workshops at the June 2025 International Thespian Festival!
Check out Lenni's 2023-2024
directing reel!
ITDP: GREECE Intensive 2025 !
Study theatre on a Greek island this summer with Lenni & an incredible team of theatre professionals from the US & Greece !
Lenni directed Iowa Conservatory's fall '24 production She Kills Monsters. This production included exciting shadow play, fight choreography, and an awesome 90s soundtrack staged and curated by Lenni.
Lenni taught Shakespeare specialty workshops for students at Cornell College and the University of Idaho this winter!
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Lenni presented on the benefits of rehearsal-based practices in neurodiverse classrooms at the Paris Conference of Arts & Humanities in June 2024 & March '25 Inclusion Week hosted by The University of Macerata in Italy.
Are you serious about your theatre training? Come join Lenni and the exceptional faculty at ICON—Iowa Conservatory's 2025 summer musical theatre intensives!
Teaching & Learning Shakespeare Through Theatre Based Practice is available on Amazon! Lenni is a contributing author for a new book published by the Arden Shakespeare and co-authored by the former head of education at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Lenni is available for Shakespeare workshops and masterclasses! She completed three teaching Certifications with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon! She is now the second US based theatre practitioner to hold these certification. Her final course was under the tutelage of former RSC artistic director, Gregory Doran.
