"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
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 (when we'll be tackling Tennessee Williams). Also new on the horizon is a revival of our "classic" arts education company, HISTORY ALIVE, with performances at the Fairfield Theater Company for Black History Month & Women's History Month, 2027.
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). My personal objection to Big Biz control. I choose social to "populate positivity" in my life (hope to attract and follow those of like minds.
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? - 2026 Slate + Self-Tape DEMO
"You have such power & presence on the stage." Jake Turner, DirectorMel'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
