Terrena Hope Mann began performing professionally onstage at age 14. After winning the title Miss Junior America Teen Texas at age 14, and placing 4th in the nation, various venues, festival coordinators, and talent scouts began pursuing and booking her for live shows. She was invited to open for artists such as Neal McCoy and Linda Davis, and did an up and coming contemporary country music artist
summer tour through Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas and Branson, MO, at 15. The summer before Terrena’s senior year of High School, she was cast in a show in the John Deere amphitheater at Six Flag’s Fiesta Texas Theme Park. This peaked the interest of the casting agents for the televised show Ed McMahon’s Star Search, where she competed in the Female Adult category in 1993. Following her performance on Star Search, she received radio airtime in the Dallas area with one of her original songs. After her performance on Star Search, Terrena was invited to audition at Dollywood Themepark in Pigeon Forge, TN. While there, she performed character roles in their spring, summer, fall and holiday shows from 1994-1997, while performing nightly for other shows as herself. While living in Pigeon Forge, she was also hired by Stella Parton to host an open mic night at her café’ and hat house, which resulted in a marketing position with her own live radio show once a week on WDLY, which allowed her to play her original songs, as well. After meeting the man of her dreams in 1995, Terrena, and her now husband, moved to the Central Coast of California in 1998. Within a couple of months, Terrena discovered that sharing her knowledge of the arts was more rewarding than putting herself on a stage when she took a teaching position at the Stock Center for the Performing Arts. While living on the Central Coast, she performed in shows at the Santa Maria Civic Theater, helped to start a theater group known as the Adobe Players, and teamed with the worship pastor to implement a drama ministry at one of the largest churches in Santa Maria, CA. In the Spring of 2007, Terrena and her husband, along with her then 3 year old son, decided to move back to their southern roots. It didn’t take long until she was sharing her love of music, performance and teaching in the Huntsville/Madison area in Alabama. She started Hopefool Productions teaching voice, audition technique and beginner piano in her home studio. Her acoustic/singer-songwriter’s group, The Hopefools, won first place at Panoply’s 2013 Homegrown Talent Competition. She has performed, choreographed and assistant directed for HCCA; performed in productions for IMP, Fantasy Playhouse (Black Barabella in Three Fairy Godmothers 2014) and Theatre Hunstville. She recently directed Fantasy Playhouse's Pinkalicious the Musical, and has worked as teaching artist for Fantasy Playhouse since 2013. She also worked as a dance instructor for Merrimack Hall’s Dance Your Dreams Program, and implemented an after school drama program at Columbia Elementary School in 2010, which is still thriving under new direction today. She joined local artists Jay Tumminello and Kristen Tumminello in the recording studio where she was the voice of Ruthie for their demo submission of Woosical to the NYMF, and was chosen to participate in an audition workshop with Broadway legend Eden Espinosa (best known for Elphaba in Wicked).
