Biography: Serena is an award-winning actress, director, playwright, and teaching artist. She holds her BA in Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina, where she was a Paul and Elizabeth Green Scholarship recipient. Serena has received training as a teaching artist from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Lincoln Center Institute, and The National Center for Creative Aging. Ebhardt is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of EbzB Productions (www.ebzb.org), whose mission is to develop original works that promote integrity, self-discovery, and positive transformation of artists, audiences, individuals, and communities.