Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot: BRITT BYRD

Who's who in Tennessee theater? Sometimes, without a program in your hand, it's difficult to know who's playing whom-hence, our newest feature: Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot...featuring some of the Volunteer State's best-known-or soon-to-be-known all over the freakin' world-thespians. And have you ever wondered who the amazing photographers are who make them look so damn good? We're gonna tell ya…

Today's actor/subject/model is the hot, beautiful, funny, capricious and talented Britt Byrd, photographed by Mike Chow (https://www.facebook.com/MikeChowPhotography).

One of Nashville's busiest young actresses, she opens next week in Angels Without Wings, a new play by Jamie Cutler, who also directs the premiere production at Darkhorse Theatre (running August 2-5). The play, the patriotic story of six women who beat the odds to become the first women in flight in the Army Air Corps during the WWII era, Britt is cast as Lois, a Philadelphian of Jewish heritage who has a knackfor keeping the girls in line in the absence of the program's commanding officer.

She follows that role up with one of filmdom's juiciest roles: Eve Harrington in All About Eve, which will be presented as a staged reading during the 2012 First Night Honors. It will be performed on Sunday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at The Larry Keeton Theatre.

Among her other recent credits…

• The Rocky Horror Show (Janet) Boiler Room Theatre
• Hairspray (Penny) Circle Players
• Angels Without Wings (Lois)
• All About Eve (Eve) The First Night Honors
• The Rocky Horror Show (Janet) Boiler Room Theatre reprises its hit