Brenda Adelman

Brenda Adelman

Brenda Adelman received a best actor award from the Zaki Gordan Institute for “Daddy’s Girl,” a short film based on her one-woman show, “My Brooklyn Hamlet: A Meshugenah True Story.” She has performed “My Brooklyn Hamlet” in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and elsewhere in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Michigan, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Audiences have included the public, women in prison, people in spiritual communities, women’s groups, college students and faculty, and other groups. Brenda has also performed at International Theatre Festivals in England and Austria. She is the recipient of a Hero of Forgiveness award from The Hawaii International Forgiveness Project and has been interviewed on Fox TV morning news and NPR. Passionate about helping people live better lives, Brenda is also a life-coach focusing on the power of forgiving the unforgivable. She is raising a teen who used to be in foster care and enjoying her new home town, San Diego.