As The Actress Said to The Mermaid... - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Being a mid sized city in the deep south, you don t think of Baton
Rouge as necessarily being a center for the performing arts. But
there is a lot of hidden talent in this town, doing really
impressive things on the stage and at local birthday parties Jenny
Ballard is the managing artistic director of Theater Baton Rouge.
Jenny began her career in Tennessee and came to Baton Rouge after
several years in local theater there to pursue a master s degree in
fine arts. After completing the program, she joined Theater Baton
Rouge in 2014, and in the three years since has helped lead the
company through many successful productions, a huge capital
campaign and efforts to grow the company s volunteer base and its
education programs. Venessa Lewis is also in the performing arts
arena, though she s more likely to show up at a kiddie birthday
party or a swimming pool. Venessa is the Louisiana Mermaid,
complete with a fully functional mermaid costume that she wears for
public appearances. Venessa also owns the Petite Princess Company,
which rents out princesses for birthdays and other events. This Out
to Lunch conversation is more bubbly than champagne but the women
behind these two theatrical companies are all substance. Photos at
Mansurs on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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