[1] She received training as a concert pianist as child and also learned to play the French horn, flute, trumpet and harpsichord, but in college she discovered musical theater.
[1] Some of the shows she staged for Trinity Rep were West Side Story, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Skin of Our Teeth, Peter Pan, Noises Off, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Fair Lady, Othello and Saint Joan.
[2] Iris Fanger wrote that "Audiences have applauded [Dehnert's] ingenuity in setting George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan" in a neighborhood garage and the entire West Side Story in the high school gym, mixing up the Jets and the Sharks to emphasize their commonalities.
[1] In 2001, Denhert won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, Large Company for her 2000 productions of My Fair Lady and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
[8] Teachout praised Dehnert's 2013 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of My Fair Lady, which was a minimalist reimagining of the musical in the style of Bertolt Brecht.