Meet Former Acting Intern - Renee Turner

Meet Renee Turner

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Meadow Brook family as its 2010-11 acting intern, performing one of my favorite roles to date--The Yellow Girl in Shout! The Mod Musical. 

Following my internship, I was a Guest Artist at the Charleston (SC) Performing Arts Center in a new musical called Fever during the area’s popular Piccolo Spoletto Festival. I had a ball doing iconic female singers from Marilyn Monroe to Cher to Madonna.

Back home, I collaborated on an original song with best-selling author Mitch Albom, and can be heard on The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto soundtrack to his book of the same name. At Mitch’s book-release event, I shared the Fox Theatre stage with Michael Bolton, Ted Nugent, Roger McGuinn, Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons and others. 

More recently, I was seen nationally in an episode of The Travel Channel’s Ghost Nation ("A Nightmare in the Nursery") and have enjoyed singing Motown hits on numerous occasions with The Stubbs Girls, the family of The Four Tops' late lead singer Levi Stubbs. I've received two Detroit Music Awards for my work with Rio and the Rockabilly Revival and was last on the Meadow Brook stage as Flo in Why Do Fools Fall In Love? 

In offstage news, I was featured in a New York Times article entitled “Tallying the Cost of Growing Older” performing my other favorite role: primary caregiver for my 92-year-old grandmother. 

Currently I'm a front woman for one of the Midwest’s premier wedding and events bands, Detroit-based Nick Kuhl and the Gang. So if you have a big event coming up, check us out at NKGband.com