Guest
Penelope Reed
Penelope Reed, who won a Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, more or less grew up at Hedgerow Theatre. She studied acting under its founder, Jasper Deeter, who became a father figure to her after her own father — also named Jared Reed, and also an actor — died in 1967. Later, she worked at the Milwaukee Repertory Company, where she met her husband, Zoran Kovcic.
Reed was a lead member of the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey and ran the drama department at the Lawrenceville School. Then, in the wake of a 1985 fire that reduced Hedgerow to a shell, she moved back to help raise it from the ashes. The theater reopened in 1990.