Bachelor of Arts Completion Program
Deanne Covington
dcoving1@du.edu
Dee Covington has been working professionally as an actress, director, and theatre instructor for more than 15 years. She is a founding company member of Denver's acclaimed Curious Theatre Company and was a Best Actress nominee for her work in NICKEL AND DIMED in 2003. Handling all youth outreach for the company, Dee has the privilege of directing Curious New Voices, a summer youth playwrighting intensive and staged reading festival that empowers the young artist to create, write and be heard. Improvisationally speaking, she is a long-term ensemble member of Playback Theatre West, an international theatre form that uses story to create community. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver she has taught several theatre courses and continues to teach improvisation to students with a zest for risk, collaboration and the courage to leap into the unknown.