Darlene Spencer received her Master of Fine Arts in Performance from York University. She is an actor, director, and educator who currently makes her home in Aurora, Ontario.
Selected acting roles include Sarah in the film 976, for which, she was awarded the Best Actor in a Supporting Role with the Planet Indie Film Festival, Lona in The Affairs of Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler with Glastonbury West, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare with the York Shakespeare Festival, her one woman show Life Out Loud written by L.C. Carson, Aeire in Run by Victoria Goring at the Toronto Fringe Festival, and most recently, Susan in the internet series Team Epic.
Directorial projects include 7 Stories by Morris Panych, Three Cities in the Life of Norman Bethune a one man opera by Tim Brady, A String of Pearls by Michele Lowe, The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, A Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Les Belles Soeurs by Michel Tremblay, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Darlene is an educator who has held teaching appointments at The University of Waterloo (1990-2000), York University (1997/8) and is currently teaching at Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. The courses she has taught there include Theatre History, Improvisation, Shakespeare in Performance, and Scene Study. Darlene recently returned from Costa Rica where she filmed a D.V. documentary about a five generation family of women under the working title "Tica Time".