Jeffrey Renn is an actor, director, teacher, clown, and – always – a master storyteller. He is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where he studied acting and has an MFA in Directing from the University of Victoria. Jeffrey was a member of the acting companies at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals and has also appeared on Broadway in Moliere’s The Miser and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

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An acclaimed Director and Acting Teacher, Jeffrey taught Acting and Movement at The University of Victoria, The Gastown Actors Studio, George Brown College, Queensland University of Technology, Bond University, and the Lismore School of the Arts in Australia. Jeffrey currently teaches private acting classes, coaches actors and is a frequent guest lecturer at Douglas College, University of Victoria and The Canadian College of Performing Arts.

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He was honoured to work with the Kickstart Disability Arts Organization and to be the interim Artistic Director of Realwheels - a Vancouver-based, professional theatre company that produces performances that deepen the audience’s understanding of the disability experience.

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At present, he resides on Salt Spring Island building a summer Shakespeare program for local theatre company, exitStageLeft Productions, and continues to work on his next installment of, At Your Service – the story of the life of Robert Service.