JoAnna Rhinehart

Growing up in the steel mill city of Springfield, Massachusetts, living with her parents, and four brothers, being the youngest child and the only girl, her imagination became her best friend. During her teen years, She studied music and dance, ran track, played tennis and watched lots of movies. At the age of 11, She was deeply moved by a 25 year old actress named Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Years later, being deeply involved with the Arts, inspired her to become Co-Founder of The Commonwealth Theatre Alliance in Springfield with her mentor, Broadway Dancer, Clinton King, Jr. The outreach program for inner-city youths, provided dance and acting classes and their performance credits included: musicals, such as Purlie Victorious to dramas, such as Arthur Kopit's, Chamber Music. JoAnna got her start in professional acting after a move to Boston, where she got the chance to be in local theatre projects, commercials, instructional films and on TV. While in Bos