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Renee Wimberley is a Triangle based actor, director, caregiver-artist advocate, and educator specializing in arts integration. She has over 30 years of experience teaching theatre arts programs in Wake County Schools, homeschool co-ops, and community programs such as Seed Art Share, Applause Youth Theatre, and Raleigh Little Theatre. She has worked with students at Meredith College, NC State, William Peace University and toured with The Missoula Children’s Theatre. In 2020, she was nominated for Broadway World Regional’s Theatre Arts Educator of the Decade. Favorite local roles include Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Justice Theater Project), Joyce in The Sum of Us (Honest Pint Theatre), Smitty in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (RLT – Cantey Nominee), and most recently The Duchess of York in Richard III (Sweet Tea Shakespeare). BA Theatre Ed. UNCG. This winter she is directing A Christmas Peter Rabbit for Applause Youth Theatre which will be performed in The Downtown Cary Park. Her favorite humans are her husband Joe and kiddos Max, Cana, and Stella.