Denise Pence

"Going high is demonstrative, a committment to showing your children, our friends,
our colleagues and your community what it looks like to live with love and operate with decency." Michele Obama

Photo by Nick Coleman

Denise & Steve Boockvor
50TH ANNIVERSARY - February, 2023

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(for the latest on all our projects)

2021 Photo by Katy Beth Barber
@KBarberPhotography
(all other headshots by Nick Coleman & Ron Rinaldi)

"Greenhorn Texan" Excerpt: The Broadway Museum Launch! May 11, 2023

Book Published May, 2023; Audiobook February, 2024

Cinderellas of West 53rd Street

ACTRESS * WRITER * PRODUCER

Thank you for tuning into this soap opera I call my life!

This site was created eons ago and acts a bit like a scrapebook of my theater life since Broadway and The Guiding Light changed my life for good. Now an empty-nester, I've kept creative by producing for The Rehearsal Club women, culminating in the publication of our Cinderella Book and celebration cabaret in May, 2024.

2026 brought me the wonderful role of "Mel" in Mel's Kitchen -- life story of a hard knocks dancer living in Hell's Kitchen during the 1980's. I kept saying to the author, Melanie Futurion, "I'm so glad I never lived your life!" DANCE saved her soul. Directed by Jake Turner (see his quote below) and choreographed by David Grenke using monologues & mime to tell the story -- brilliantly.

Our Rehearsal Club women are actively seeking "Rehearsal Club Way" be added to the West 53rd & Sixth Avenue street sign. Expected decision in December.

I remain on Council this year for The Episcopal Actors Guild helping produce events throughout the year.

For the latest updates on various Boockvor Productions Projects, please visit our Boockvor Productions site. Classic playwrights readings continue throughout the year and 2027 will be seeing a revival of HISTORY ALIVE!

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Trivia: I closed 3 accounts on Twitter/X, am fairly active on Threads and opened a new account on BlueSky (reminds me of the original Twitter).

PEACE, HEALTH & HARMONY TO ALL
MY FAMILY, FRIENDS & FANS

As always, thank you to the fans of Broadway and daytime dramas who remember and stay in touch via social media..

Independent Artist

Contact: denise@denisepence.com

Columbus State University

Thank you for our Life Achievement Award in Dance, 2022

Graduate Class of 2000

University of NC School of the Arts
(formerly NCSA - pre-B'way)

70 is the new 50, RIGHT? - 2024 Slate + Self-Tape DEMO

VOICEOVER DEMO (SAG Studios)
Sexy/all Business/& Southern

"You have such power & presence on the stage." Jake Turner, Director Mel's Kitchen, 2026

"Denise Pence, well-known for her years of TV soap opera acting is even better in the flesh, a dancer, singer and comic who belts her way across her audiences and dominates the evening from start to finish." Irma La Deuce CT Journal

Denise Pence is one of the most dedicated and prepared actresses I have ever directed. She takes directorial adjustments and delivers rich, sensitive moments of emotional truth. A joy to work with, a real professional. David Hausman, Director, Schreiber One-Acts

Shakespeare Alive! This is beginning to feel like a Company lately! And that's an amazing feeling!! Thank you, Denise, for orchestrating all this and making it possible for me to meet all these wonderful actors!" (Katie Sparer, History Alive actor, Acting teacher 2021)

We are an arts education company, dedicated to support, inspire and challenge artists and writers in creating an informed history.
Shakespeare readings continue in 2023. Archived videos (like The Tempest, 2021 above) are archived on our site: www.boockvorproductions.com