Pence may be best known to television audiences for her role as Katie Parker on the soap opera Guiding Light.
In 1970 while living temporarily at The Rehearsal Club (New York) and attending a Martha Graham Summer Program, she auditioned for The Rothschilds and put her studies on hold.
[2] Giving notice in Pippin, Pence got her first dramatic role as “Connie” in Come Blow Your Horn at the Carousel DT in Ohio which almost immediately led to her audition for Guiding Light.
Pence and husband Steven Boockvor were inspirations for the characters of Al and Kristine in A Chorus Line [3] She also appeared in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar [4] directed by Norman Jewison, and appeared briefly in Threesome, a movie of the week for CBS.
Her work as an Officer and later Chair for The Rehearsal Club Alumnae Association, has served to launch the writing of a new musical, "Good Girls Only," written by Charles Leipart, the gathering of 25 original voices for a memoir book, "Cinderellas of West 53rd Street” and led the organization to incorporation in 2019.