TRAINING AND THEATRICAL
Dinah Lenney grew up on the east coast, attending public schools outside Boston and Manhattan, and finally graduating high school in a small town just north of New York City. She earned her Bachelors at Yale and a Certificate of Acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School before moving to Los Angeles to try her hand at television. Now in the middle of her 13th season as Nurse Shirley on NBC's critically acclaimed ER, she continues to work in theatre and film, and teaches acting in arts programs at UCLA and Pepperdine University. The co-author (with Mary Lou Belli) of Acting for Young Actors (Watson-Guptill), and the author of Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir (University of Nebraska Press), Dinah holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her essays appear in journals and anthologies, as well as in her hometown newspaper, The Los Angeles Times. Dinah lives in Echo Park, just over the hill from Dodger Stadium, with her husband Fred and their children, Eliza and Jake.
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