Biography

Adrienne Kress is a writer and actress born and raised in Toronto, Canada. It was only natural that Adrienne, the daughter of two high school English teachers, should fall in love with both creating and performing the written word. She majored in Drama at the age of 11 at the Claude Watson School of the Arts, and continued to follow this path through post secondary school, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Toronto with an honours BA in theatre. She then moved to London England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and stayed for three years acting in a variety of productions.

Running parallel to her passion for acting, was always her passion for writing. In high school she won the Gordon C Johnson award for her work, and in university she studied with top Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. A play she wrote as a result of that experience was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to excellent reviews and sold out houses. Currently Adrienne resides in Toronto. Alex and the Wigpowder Treasure is her first novel.