The Story of a Mother

the cast

Jenna Lamia (The Lake):

Theater: Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! at Lincoln Center, directed by Daniel Sullivan; Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living at MCC, with Anna Paquin, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman; Enda Walsh’s Bedbound at the Irish Rep with Brian O’Byrne: Leslie Caputo’s Birthmarks at the Ensemble Studio Theater; Mark Ravenhill’s Totally Over You at the O’Neill Theater Center, directed by Suzy Graham-Adriani. Other Reading Series: Alexandra Cunningham’s The Theory of Three at New York Shakespeare Festival, Ethan Frankel’s The Treehouse at CCTP, Tenessee Descending at Playwright’s Horizons, and Michigan Takedown for Youngblood. Television: Carrie Schillinger on “Oz,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Strangers with Candy,” and the WB series “Brutally Normal.” Film: “Hi-Life,” directed by Roger Hedden, and the upcoming films, “Nowhere to go but Up,” directed by Amos Kollek, and “Walk On.” Audio book titles include New York Times Bestseller “The Girl with the Pearl Earring,” “Witness,” and The New York Times Bestseller “The Secret Life of Bees,” for which Ms. Lamia was recently nominated for an Audie award for best solo performance by a female. Ms. Lamia is a graduate of Amherst College.