Tina Ann Brock is an award-winning American stage, screen and television actress. A St. Louis native, she is the co- Founder and the Producing Artistic Director of The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, a critically acclaimed theater specializing in existentialist works by authors of the Theater of the Absurd, celebrating its 18th year in 2023. Since 1991, Tina  has directed over 60 stage productions for the IRC and other area theaters. 

She has lectured on directing absurdist plays at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Ursinus College and Temple University. 

Tina has performed in over 50 stage productions, and enjoys particularly the work of Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and William Inge. She has played the lead in a pilot for a television series, in dozens of regional and national television and voiceover commercials, and in a growing number of independent films.  

Tina studied Journalism and Dance at the University of Maryland. 

She combines her performance and directing background with over 30 years’ experience in Medical Education and training with The National Board of Medical Examiners, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Virginia and Drexel Medical College.