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Serena Ebhardt
Serena Ebhardt is an American actress, singer, playwright and theatrical stage director. As an actress and singer Ebhardt's most prominent visibility has come via the public television national broadcast of War Bonds: The Songs & Letters of World War II. The broadcast originated regionally in 2007, and was distributed nationally in 2008 in both U.S. and Canadian broadcast markets. It continues to air on public television intermittently.

In recent years Ebhardt has gained increasing recognition for her theatrical direction of stage plays in regional theatres, small professional theatres, colleges & universities, and as a teaching artist.

Most notably, Ebhardt directed the re-staging of the musical Johnny Johnson (book and music by Paul Green; music by Kurt Weill), in November, 2014 - a campus wide project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts and the Humanities and a collaboration of the music and drama departments at the University. Ebhardt also collaborated with UNC-Chapel Hill music faculty member and renowned musicologist Tim Carter in developing the script for the staging of the project in what will now be considered the definitive version of the play by the Kurt Weill Foundation and Paul Green Foundation for future stagings. Addtionally in 2014 (March), Ebhardt helmed the staging for the original premiere of The Clothesline Muse a multi-media theatrical production including song, dance, and visual art design that premiered in Philadelphia, PA, in March of 2014, at the celebrated Painted Bride Art Center, featuring multi-Grammy Award nominee, Nnenna Freelon and other artists. The production's subsequent touring performances are under a different directing team.

Ebhardt has directed several of American actor and playwright Mike Wiley's performances, including Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till, and the staged version of the nationally touring production of Dr. Elliot Engel's The Night Before Christmas Carol.

A co-founder of EbzB Productions (with husband, David zum Brunnen), a national touring theatrical company that began operation in 1998, Ebhardt has served as Artistic Director for the company since it's creation.

A professional actress since childhood, Ebhardt's career has led her to national tours and regional theatre appearances in the U.S. and Canda. She has served on a variety of non-profit boards in the state of North Carolina, her native state, where she resides once again with her family in Chatham County.