Ren is an Australian film & theatre actor, having trained with Honours at the Flinders University Drama Centre. Also specialising in directing and writing, Ren is a co-founder of independent theatre company CRAM Collective.

Since graduating in 2020, Ren’s theatre performances have included Kinetik Collective’s Kill Climate Deniers (Dir. Clara Solly-Slade), supported by State Theatre Company South Australia’s StateSide program; the North American tour of Bluey’s Big Play as Bluey (Dir. Rosemary Myers); the one-woman show Guthrak at DreamBIG (Dir. Matthew Briggs); Hits at the Adelaide Festival Centre (Dir. Rebecca Meston); and CRAM Collective’s world premiere Something Big (Dir. Connor Reidy).

With a screen-acting diploma from Actors Studio UK at the prestigious Pinewood Studios, Ren has appeared in a number of short films including The Hitcher (Dir. Henry Reimer-Meaney), premiering at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival; With Love, Lottie (Dir. Lily Drummond), premiering at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival; and ABC’s Beep & Mort Season 2 as an additional puppeteer.

Ren’s latest directorial short, This is Fine., won Best Directing and Best Film at the 2024 Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project, sending it to Filmapalooza Seattle where it won 3rd Best Film. It went on to screen in the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. Ren recently finished production as the lead in Long Flight Home, a screen adaptation of the book by Lainie Anderson based on the real-life story of the Vickers Vimy plane.