Renée is a vibrant performing arts professional with twenty-five years of diverse performing, teaching, writing, and directing experience from the stage to film and television. Creative opportunities as a performer, teacher, and director have taken Renée all over the UK, London’s West End and off West- End, Europe, Canada, Korea, Central Asia, and many other inspiring places.

As a dual citizen of UK and Canada, Renée spent most of her early years as a professional performer in the UK (D’Oyly Carte, English Touring Opera, Arcola Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Canterbury Cathedral) while also maintaining a position on the voice faculty at Canterbury Christ Church University; where she taught and coached on both the classical and musical theatre/CCM music degree programs.

Projects during the pandemic saw Renee remotely direct and coach singers situated across the globe in several remotely filmed operas (COSA Canada) and continue to teach her international roster of students online.

In the 2022-23 season she became an RBC Artist Mentor with the Association for Opera in Canada, continued her work as a teaching artist with the Canadian Opera Company, was a guest Choral Clinician to the Durham Girls Choir, coached and offered masterclasses at the National Opera Studio (London, England), Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, University of Toronto, and Hart House Theatre. Renée is a core faculty member and course advisor on the Summer Intensive for Emerging Artists at the Canadian Opera Company and is in the process of launching CADS (Continuing Artistic Development Studio) which will offer community and exciting new training programs for singing actors including The Drop-In and The Audition Clinic.