Summer Rain Menkee

Summer Rain Menkee (birth given name by hippie parents) was born and raised on the Oregon Coast. She appears in The First Lady opposite Viola Davis (Showtime), as well as recent appearances on Dynasty (CW), The Resident (FOX), among others. She was a Performing Arts Scholarship recipient and Theatre major at Seattle Pacific University, with additional training at American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), comedy with Lesly Kahn and improv with Upright Citizen's Brigade (Los Angeles). She was a member of the iconic Met Theatre (Hollywood), where two of her original one act plays were produced, and she collaborated on the award winning short film "Now Or Never." She taught theatre at Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, as well as with L.A.U.SD.'s Arts Education Branch and Gifted And Talented Educaction Conservatory. She moved to Atlanta, GA in 2017, where she lives with her two boys and two cats.