John Conway Rensenhouse and Darren Dean Sextro are to be married Dec. 29 at the American, an events space in Kansas City, Mo. Sanford Robbins, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, is to officiate.
Mr. Rensenhouse (left), 64, is an actor, director, and theater producer and serves as artistic chair of Kansas City Actors Theater. He graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and received a master’s degree in theater from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He was featured as the villain Hector Wilson on the soap opera “The Edge of Night.” He also spent a year as the character Garry Lejeune in the first national tour of the Broadway production of “Noises Off,” and played the character Scar in the first national tour of the Broadway production of “The Lion King.”
He is the son of the late Beverly A. Rensenhouse and the late Charles K. Rensenhouse, who both lived in Kansas City. His mother worked as a real estate agent at Olson Quivira, a real estate agency in Lake Quivira, Kan. His father owned Rensenhouse Electric Supply in Kansas City.
Mr. Sextro, 54, is a Kansas City-based director and theater producer who also serves as director of operations for the medical journals at the American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kan. He graduated from the University of Kansas. A member of the Dramatists Guild, he most recently adapted and directed a new version of “A Doll’s House” for Kansas City Actors Theater and then directed Lucas Hnath’s play “A Doll’s House, Part 2” for the Unicorn Theater, also in Kansas City.
He is a son of Laraine Bishop Holland of Topeka, Kan., and the late Darrel D. Sextro. The groom’s mother retired as a dental hygienist at a private dental practice in Topeka. His father was president of Sextro Dental Laboratories.
The couple met at the Unicorn Theater in December 1999 at a performance of the Craig Lucas play “Prelude to a Kiss.”
