FITNESS TRAINING:
* Certified Yoga Teacher (Heart Yoga), Yoga Alliance
* Certified Personal Training Specialist, CanFit Pro
* MFA in Acting along with over 15 years of physical, breath, voice, and performance training and experience
* Background in dance (ballet) training
FITNESS WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Private personal trainer, yoga instructor, and movement coach
* Barre instructor with Pop Physique
* Bootcamp instructor with Dynamic Fitness and Retreats
* Certified Yoga Teacher (Heart Yoga), Yoga Alliance
* Certified Personal Training Specialist, CanFit Pro
* MFA in Acting along with over 15 years of physical, breath, voice, and performance training and experience
* Background in dance (ballet) training
FITNESS WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Private personal trainer, yoga instructor, and movement coach
* Barre instructor with Pop Physique
* Bootcamp instructor with Dynamic Fitness and Retreats
BIO
Denise completed her yoga teacher training in Nelson B.C. with Karuna Erickson and is also a certified personal trainer. Her passion for movement work took her to Chicago for a two week training intensive in Suzuki technique with P3East Theatre Company and she has also studied Suzuki and Viewpoints with the New York based SITI Company.
Denise holds an M.F.A in Acting from York University as well as a B.F.A in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor. She has created two diverse solo shows. This One, an autobiographical journey through love, loss, and baking, and Someday, a short comedic piece in which seminar leader Pamela Steel deftly guides participants towards a cutting edge psychological technology called Someday, but then unexpectedly encounters an unplanned, unorthodox, and unexplainable lesson of her own.
Denise produced and performed the original twenty-five minute version of This One at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival. She then expanded the show into an hour and produced it in Toronto. She was nominated for a My Theatre Award for Best Solo Performance. This One was then picked up by Port Stanley Festival Theatre for which she expanded it again into it's current and complete two-act version.
Denise holds an M.F.A in Acting from York University as well as a B.F.A in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor. She has created two diverse solo shows. This One, an autobiographical journey through love, loss, and baking, and Someday, a short comedic piece in which seminar leader Pamela Steel deftly guides participants towards a cutting edge psychological technology called Someday, but then unexpectedly encounters an unplanned, unorthodox, and unexplainable lesson of her own.
Denise produced and performed the original twenty-five minute version of This One at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival. She then expanded the show into an hour and produced it in Toronto. She was nominated for a My Theatre Award for Best Solo Performance. This One was then picked up by Port Stanley Festival Theatre for which she expanded it again into it's current and complete two-act version.
She has been seen in film festivals throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe in the award winning film Falling For Caroline in which she plays the title character.
Selected credits include The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics), Steel Magnolias (Port Stanley Festival Theatre), South Pacific (Sunshine Festival Theatre) as well as appearing on the CTV series Dan For Mayor.
Denise grew up on a farm in South Western Ontario and lives in Toronto.
Selected credits include The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics), Steel Magnolias (Port Stanley Festival Theatre), South Pacific (Sunshine Festival Theatre) as well as appearing on the CTV series Dan For Mayor.
Denise grew up on a farm in South Western Ontario and lives in Toronto.