VITA - Stephen F. Austin State University

VITA
Allen H. Oster
School of Theatre
Stephen F. Austin State University
P. O. Box 6090, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
(936) 468-4003 (Dept.) or (936) 468-1119 (Off.)
E-mail: aoster@sfasu.edu
Home Address:
Date of Birth:
3008 Chateau Lane
Nacogdoches, Texas 75965-2909
(936) 564-8821
February l3, l949
Educational Background:
M.F.A.
M.A.
B.C.S.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah,
September 1981 - June 1983
North Dakota State University, Fargo, N D
September 1979 - May 1981
Dickinson State University, Dickinson, N D
September 1967 - February 1971,
March 1979 -May 1979
Job Experience:
Professor, School of Theatre
(changed from Department of Theatre – Fall 2005)
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
August 1999 to Present
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
August 1993 to 1999
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
August 1988 to August 1993
Administrator, Student-Directed Productions Program
(over 425 full-length and one-act plays including 22 new

scripts), School of Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, Texas, August 1983 to Present
page two
Administrator, SFA High School Summer Theatre
Workshop, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, Texas, Summer Session II, 1991 to Present
Artistic Director, SFA Summer Repertory Theatre,
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
1989-90 and 1995- through 2007
Instructor, Department of Theatre
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
August 1987 to August 1988
Lecturer, Department of Theatre
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
August 1983 to August 1987
Staff, Beginning Acting, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah,
September 1981 - June 1983
Publicity and Marketing Assistant,
Pioneer Theatre Company (Equity House)
and University of Utah Department of Theatre
Programs (Babcock Theatre, Young People's Theatre, and
Student Productions), Salt Lake City, Utah,
September 1981 - June 1983
Staff, Fundamentals of Speech,
North Dakota State University,
Fargo, North Dakota, September 1979 - May 1981
Creative Endeavors:
DIRECTING:
School of Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1983 to Present
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Lorraine Hansberry

THE ELEPHANT MAN Bernard Pomerance
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE Adapted by Jay
Presson Allen Based
on the novel by
Muriel Spark
BLITHE SPIRIT
Noel Coward
(w/ guest artist, Jamie Couch)
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Tennessee Williams
HAIR
MacDermot, Rado,
and Ragni
page three
MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Kaufman & Hart
(w/ guest artist, David S. Raine)
BACCHAE
Euripides
HAMLET
Wm. Shakespeare
TERRA NOVA
Ted Tally
SUMMER AND SMOKE
Tennessee
(w/ guest artist, Stephanie Cozart) Williams
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON
MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS Paul Zindel
(w/ guest artist, Jean Waldera)
IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE Timothy Mason
CHICAGO
Fosse, Ebb,
and Kander
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES C. Hampton
WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD? Charlotte Delbo
MACBETH (with guest artists Wm. Shakespeare
Michael Ouimet & Susan Arnold)
MEDEA
Robinson Jeffers
TALKING PICTURES
Horton Foote
(U.S. University Premiere)
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Rodgers & Barer
BRECHT ON BRECHT
George Tabori
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Tennessee
Williams
HAY FEVER
Noel Coward
CLOSE TIES
Elizabeth Diggs
THE HOUSE OF ATREUS (Oresteia: Aeschylus
Agamemnon, The Libation
(Adapted by
Bearers, and The Furies) John Lewin)
AS IS
WilliamHoffman

HAIR MacDermot, Rado
and Ragni
SEA MARKS
Gardner Mckay
THE DINING ROOM (ACTF entry) A.R. Gurney, Jr.
TALKING WITH.....
Jane Martin
THE 5TH OF JULY
Lanford Wilson
FOREVER YOURS, MARIE LOU Michel Tremblay
LONE STAR
James McLure
Tremblay
SFA Summer Repertory Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
1989, 1990, 1993, 1995 to 2009
PICNIC
William Inge
DRIVING MISS DAISY
Alfred Uhry
TRIBUTE
Bernard Slade
BONJOUR, LA, BONJOUR
Michele
THE SHADOW BOX
Michael Cristofer
page four
SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM
WAYSIDE SCHOOL (L. Sachar) John Olive
1918 Horton Foote
AND MISS REARDON DRINKS
A LITTLE
Paul Zindel
TALKING WITH
Jane Martin
THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Alfred Urhy
TABLE SETTINGS
James Lapine
SEA MARKS
Gardner McKay
LIGHT UP THE SKY
Moss Hart
MARVIN'S ROOM
Scott McPherson
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Neil Simon
LAUNDRY AND BOURBON and James McLure
LONE STAR
ALBUM
David Rimmer
VANITIES (Dinner Theatre)
Jack Heifner
SFA Summer Repertory Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Cherokee Civic Theatre, Rusk, Texas,
1985 -1988
VALENTINE'S DAY
Horton Foote
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING Carson McCullers
COURTSHIP
Horton Foote

I REMEMBER MAMA John van Druten
LIGHT UP THE SKY
Moss Hart
HARVEY
Mary Chase
THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
John Patrick
Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, Arizona, Summer 1991
TWO BY TWO
Rodgers, Charnin,
and Stone
North Dakota Repertory Theatre, Fargo, North Dakota,
1983 - 1985, 1987
EL GRANDE DE COCA COLA House, Neville-
Andrews,
Shearman, White
and Willis
HAY FEVER
Noel Coward
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Neil Simon
THE ODD COUPLE
Neil Simon
Sosondowah Summer Theatre, Dickinson, North Dakota,
1973 and 1984
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Bernard Slade
page five
GUYS AND DOLLS
Burrows, Loesser,
and Swerling
Temblay
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1981 -1983
LA RONDE
Arthur Schnitzler
CLOSE TIES
Elizabeth Diggs
ROCKABYE
Samuel Beckett
BONJOUR, LA, BONJOUR
Michel
THEATRE II
Samuel Beckett
North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota,
1979 -1981
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER Tennessee
Williams
BRECHT ON BRECHT
George Tabori
I'M HERBERT
Robert Anderson

THE LOVE COURSE A.R. Gurney, Jr.
THE GREETING CARD (New Script) John C. Murphy
Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North Dakota,
1979
THE SHADOW BOX
Michael Cristofer
Washburn Community Theatre, Washburn,
North Dakota, 1975 - 1978, 1984
TALKING WITH.....
Jane Martin
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS Paul Zindel
ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON
MARIGOLDS
ANYTHING GOES
Cole Porter
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Neil Simon
(Dinner Theatre)
THE LITTLE RABBIT WHO
Nellie McCaslin
WANTED RED WINGS
COME BLOW YOUR HORN Neil Simon
(Dinner Theatre)
Northwest Community Theatre, Lemmon, South Dakota,
1975 - 1977
PLAZA SUITE (Dinner Theatre) Neil Simon
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN,
Clark Gesner
CHARLIE BROWN
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Irving Berlin
Los Angeles Dinner Theatre, Inc., Los Angeles,
California, 1974
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Neil Simon
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Old Missouri Players, Bismarck, North Dakota, l973
THE GINGERBREAD LADY Neil Simon
THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES Moliere
Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North Dakota,
1969 - 1971
THE SAND BOX
Edward Albee
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Nora MacAlvay
(Toured ND)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Robert Vance

THE WITCH'S LULLABY Martha Bennett
King
WHITE LIES
Peter Shaffer
ACTING:
Independent Film, Lufkin, Texas, 1998 - 99
BENEATH THE NAKED LIGHT Easy Eddie
Directed by Michael Golembiewski
College of Fine Arts, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, Texas, 1995
AN ALL COLLEGE FACULTY RECITAL
"Take A Pew" by Alan Bennett from
BEYOND THE FRINGE
Department of Art, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1993,
THE CHILTON AFFAIR
Great Krensky
(student-produced film)
Department of Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1998
ACCOMPLICE
Allen Oster
NEXT
Marion Cheever
SPRING AWAKENING
The Masked Man
THE TEMPEST
Prospero
(Toured to Odessa, TX)
SFA Summer Repertory Theatre, Stephen F. Austin
State University, Rusk, Texas, 1985
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Grandpa
Vanderhof
Prairie Public Radio, Bismarck, North Dakota, 1984
DAKOTA PORTRAITS
James Foley
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Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
Utah, 1982 - 1983
THE RULING CLASS
Tucker
GEORGE AND FREDERIC
Buloz

(World Premiere)
KUER Radio, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982 - 1983
Voice-overs
Lagoon Opera House (Equity), Farmington, Utah, 1982
HIGH BUTTON SHOES
Papa
Lagoon Amusement Park Corporation, Farmington,
Utah, 1982
National Health Training Film actor
Performing Arts Building Lab Theatre,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982
PROMETHEUS BOUND
Hephaistos
Pioneer Theatre Company (Equity), Salt Lake City,
Utah, 1981 - 1982
THE RED SHOES
Snogg
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Teddy Brewster
North Dakota Repertory Theatre, Fargo,
North Dakota, 1981
TWO BY TWO
Shem
ANGEL STREET
Detective Rough
6 RMS RV VW Eddie
Fargo - Moorhead Community Theatre, Fargo,
North Dakota, 1980
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON Pseudolus
THE WAY TO THE FORUM
North Dakota State University, Fargo,
North Dakota, 1979 - 1981
ENDGAME
Nag
KING LEAR
Gloucester
A SEPARATE PEACE
Patchwithers
GYPSY
Weber
DEATHTRAP
Porter Milgrim
BRECHT ON BRECHT Actor 1

Dickinson State University, Dickinson,
North Dakota, 1979
BROADWAY'S BEST
Featured
Performer
BRECHT ON BRECHT Actor 1
page eight
Washburn Community Theatre, Washburn,
North Dakota, 1978
ANYTHING GOES
Moonface Martin
Sosondowah Summer Theatre, Dickinson,
North Dakota, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1975
THE MUSIC MAN
Mayor Shinn
ANYTHING GOES
Moonface Martin
TWELFTH NIGHT
Sir Toby Belch
MACBETH
Lennox
THE TEMPEST
Alonso
STOP THE WORLD -
Chorus
I WANT TO GET OFF!
ONLY AN ORPHAN GIRL
Villain
TOM JONES
Justice Dowling
THURBER CARNIVAL
Ensemble
ALL-AMERICAN BRAVE NEW Ensemble
WORKSHOP
Dickinson State University, Dickinson,
North Dakota, 1967 -1972
NEXT
Marion Cheever
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Caleb
THE COCKROACH AND THE CAT The Editor
(Toured ND, MT, Saskatchewan, Canada)
LAST OF THE LEPRECHAUNS Sir Blowmuch
MEDEA
The Turor
HELLO, OUT THERE
2nd Man
HELLO, DOLLY!
Vandergelder
THE WORLD OF SHOLOM Rabbi David/God
ALEICHEM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Whiteside
THE LION IN WINTER
Richard
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Jacob Marley
THE IMAGINARY INVALID Lawyer Codicle

THE CRYING PRINCESS AND King
THE GOLDEN GOOSE
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY Actor 1
SOUTH PACIFIC
Lt. Cmdr. Harbison
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
THE VALIANT
The Murderer
Father Daly
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FROG PRINCESS AND THE WITCH
A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
THE LITTLE RABBIT WHO
WANTED RED WINGS
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
THE STUDENT or WHAT COULD
BE WORSE (New Script)
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
RAMA AND THE TIGERS
The Tzar
Reverend Barnhill
Little Rabbit
Vincentio
Schmidt
Dr. Heartfelt
Emperor
Mappo
Courses Taught: Beginning Acting Intermediate Acting
Advanced Acting
Theatre Speech
Beginning Directing
Advanced Theatre Speech
Audition Techniques
Dialects
Oral Interpretation
Theatre Appreciation
Theatre of the Absurd
Samuel Beckett Seminar
SFA101 Freshman Seminar Fundamentals of Speech
Administrator, Graduate and Undergraduate Student-
Directed Productions Program, School of Theatre,
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas,
1983 to Present (over 450 full-length and one-act plays
including 25 new scripts)
Full-Lengths: All's Well That Ends Well, American Buffalo,
Awake and Sing, Beyond Therapy, Blood Moon, Buffalo-Alyce
(new script), A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talkin',
Coyote Ugly, Crimes of the Heart, The Effect of Gamma Rays on
Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, Eleemosynary, Extremities (two
productions), The Fifth Sun, Gemini, Guernica, How I Got That
Story, How I Learned to Drive, The Intelligent Design of Jenny
Chow, I Ought To Be In Pictures, The Killing of Sister George,
The Laramie Project, A Life In The Theatre, Lost in Yonkers,
Lovers: Winners and Losers, LUV, The Maids, Mass Appeal,
Medal of Honor Rag, Miss Margarida's Way, The Misanthrope,

Never in My Lifetime, Night Mother, 1969, No Exit, Oh Dad Poor
Dad Mama's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, A
Perfect Ganesh, Picnic, The Piano Lesson, The Pizza Man, The Pot
of Gold, Private Eyes, Reynard the Fox, $avior (new script) The
Sea Horse, Shooting Simone, Side Man, Three Days of Rain,
Veronica’s Room, Waiting for Godot, The Weir, Wenceslas Square,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
One-Acts: All Saints’ Day, American Century, Ancient Boys,
Animal Keepers,Bad Boy Nietzche, Back Bog Beast Bait, The Bald
Soprano, Bargains, Birdbath, Bobby Gould in Hell (two
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One-Acts (cont.):
productions), Botticelli, Bouncers, Boy’s Play, Chamber Music,
Chocolate Cake, Closet Madness,Coffee and John (new script),
Cowboy Mouth, The Death of Bessie Smith, Defacing Michael
Jackson, 'dentity Crisis, Dr. Fish, Do Over, The Dumbwaiter,
The Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills, Frenzy for Two or
More, The Gas Heart, A Girl's Guide to Chaos, Graceland,
Guernica, Goodbye Oscar, The Hanging of Abner Martin (new
script), Hidden in this Picture, Hopscotch, The Indian Wants the
Bronx, In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes, The Informer, The
Labyrinth, The Lesson, The Love Course, The Love of Don
Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden, Love Lines: a comedy of
bedside manners (new script), Men Without Dates, Nice People
Dancing to Good Country Music, Line, No Exit, Nothing
Immediate, On Tidy Endings, The Open Meeting, The Other Five
Percent, Overruled, Passage (new script), Penguin Blues,
Personal Effects, Picnic on the Battlefield, Porch, Present Tense,
Private Wars (two productions), The Proposal, Quake,
Purgatori, The Red Key, Riders to the Sea, The Rising of the
Moon, Room 17 C, Sarah B. Divine, Self Torture and Strenuous
Exercise, SLAM!, Solitaire, Some Kind of Love Story, Spittin'
Image, Terminal Bar, Thanks, Times Square, Tired Feet and
Dancing Shoes, Titanic, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, The Typists
(two productions), Tone Clusters, The Ugly Duckling, The
Unwicked Witch, The Value of Names, The Vise, The Waiting
Room, The Waste Disposal Unit, The Whole Shebang, Wiley and
the Hairy Man, Wine in the Wilderness, A Woman with 27
Children, Women and Wallace, The Yellow Boa, A Young Lady of
Property.
Studio Hours: The Actor's Nightmare, Ah Eurydice!,
Americansaint, Arabian Nights, The Author's Voice, All On Her

Own, Amicable Partings, Approaching Lavendar, Apres Opera,
Aria Da Capo, At Home, Baby Talk, Bag Lady, Ballerinas, Bar and
Ger, The Bathroom Door, The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes
Me Cry (two productions), Before Breakfast, The Boar, The Boy
in the Basement, Breakfast? (new script), The Brother, Buddies,
Burrough's Readings from the Texts, The Call, Can-Can,The
Catechism of Patty Reed, Catastrophe, Charlie, Chicago, Chug,
Circled in Red (new script), Crawling Arnold, Da’Nile (new
Script), The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Darkness and Windows
and Elvis and God (new script), The Day the Whores Came Out
to Play Tennis, Death Knocks, The Death of Bessie Smith, Degas
C’est Moi (two productions), Design Show, The Devil’s Karma
(new script), Diatribe, Dice and Cards, The Divine Fallacy,
Domestic Bliss, Doublespeak? (new script), The Drowned Man,
Electric Roses, Emotional Baggage, Endgame, Escape by
Moonlight, Extensions, F. M., Favorite Lady, Ferris Wheel,
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Studio Hours (cont.):
Fiddlers in the Forest, Fin and Euba, Final Placement, Finger
Food (two productions), Flop Cop, Forever Judy, Fugue,
Funeral Tea, A Game, Gander Sauce, Getting Away with Murder,
Graceland, Gray Matter, Grief, Haiku, Half-Time at Halcyon
Days, Hallie Flanagan: Dynamo (new script), Happy Mug, The
Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From (two
productions), Hello Out There, Here We Are, How He Lied to
Her Husband, I Bring You Flowers, I Can’t Remember
Everything, Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, I Cuba Si, I Rise in Flames Cried
the Phoenix, In Place, It Is There, The Jewish Wife, A Kind of
Alaska, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Laundry and Bourbon,
Lemonade, Life Support, Life with No Joy in It, Lip Service, Little
Red Riding Hood, Look Who's Playing God, Lord Byron's Love
Letter, Losing Faith (new script), The Lost Girl, The Love Course,
Love Poem #98, Loyalties. Ludlow Fair, Lunch or Something,
Lunch with Ginger, Lush Life, The Madness of Lady Bright (two
productions), The Maker of Dreams, The Male Room (new
script), The Man Who Couldn’t Dance, The Man With the Flower
in His Mouth, Married Bliss (two productions), Medea,
Medusa's Tale, The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus (two
productions), Mime for Three Players, Minnesota Moon, (two
productions), Monica, The Moon Please, The Mystery of
Twicknam Vicarage, My Two Loves, Naomi in the Living Room
(two Productions), New York Actor, Next, Noodle-Doodle Box,
No One Will Be Immune, Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They

Appear (new script), Oedi, Ohio Impromptu, The Old Lady
Shows Her Medals, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be
Unhappy, Open Admissions, The Open Road, Overtones, Patio,
The Parkbench, Perchance, Personal Addiction (new script), Postits,
Prague Summer, Present Tense, The Problem, The Prodigal
Son, The Potboiler, Rain, The Real Tale of Jack and Jill, The Red
Coat (two productions), Reverse Transcription, Righteousness
(new script), The Rising of the Moon, The Role of Della (two
productions), Rumple Schmumple, The Salmon Tribunal, The
Secret (new script), The Sandbox, Sexual Perversity in Chicago,
Shakespeare and Mushrooms, The Shooting Gallery, Scooter
Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World, Silence, The Sniper, The
Social Event, Sorry Wrong Number, Sparks in the Park, Stag,
Steps Must Be Gentle, Stones and Bones, Success, Summer at the
Lake, Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting a Friend on the Street,
Tape, 10,000 Cigarettes, Throwing Things Away (new script),
The Tiger, Time Flies, The Tiny Closet, Toe the Line (new
script), Success, The Unknown General, The Valentine Fairy
(two productions), Variations of the Death of Trotsky, Vivien,
Welcome to the Moon, What Are You Doin Here?, What She
Found There, What We Do With It, When Shakespeare’s Ladies
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Studio Hours (cont.):
Meet, When You Were (new script), Where Have All the
Lightning Bugs Gone?, The Whole Shebang, White Lies, Woody
Allen: Paperback Writer, Write Me A Love Letter, The Zoo Story.
Professional Service: SCHOOL OF THEATRE:
Member, Search Committee for Adjunct Faculty (Theatre
Appreciation), Stephen F. Austin State University, 2009
Member, Search Committee for Director of School of
Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2007
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of
Acting/Voice/Performance, Stephen F. Austin State
University, 2001 and 2004
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of
Scenic & Lighting Design, Stephen F. Austin State
University, 2004
Member, Sub-Committee for NAST (National Association

of Schools of Theatre) Re-Accreditation Report
SFASU, 2002-03
Adviser, Alpha Psi Omega, National Theatre Fraternity,
Department of Theatre, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, Texas, Fall 1999 to Present
Recruitment, at TETA - Texas Educational Theatre
Association, various cities in Texas, January, 1986 to 2006
Recruitment, Texas Thespian Festival. Corpus Christi, TX,
November 1999
Recruitment, Dallas and Houston Art Fairs, Fall 1997
Recruitment, Texas Thespian Festival, Abilene, TX,
November 1998
Coordinator, THEATRE DAY AT SFA (hosting area high
school students and their teachers who visit out facilities
and campus, attend a theatre class, view a major
production, meet faculty and students, and audition for
Theatre Scholarships for the next school term.
Stephen F. Austin State University. 1994 to 2002
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of
History/Theory/Criticism, Stephen F. Austin State
University, 1998
Member Search Committee for Assistant Professor of
Lighting/Scenic Design, Stephen F. Austin State
University, 1997
Coordinator, Freshman and Transfer Students
Orientation to Department of Theatre, Stephen F.
Austin State University, 1996 to 2000
Adviser, Freshman and Transfer Students Orientation
Sessions, Stephen F. Austin State University,
1993 to 2007
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Acting Coach, URTA – University Resident Theatre
Association, Students auditioning for graduate schools
and theatre companies : Marjorie Kammerlohr, Heaven
Stephens, Sara Grigsby, Justin Ryan, Richard Robichaux,
Stephanie Cozart.
Editor, Dept. of Theatre Student Handbook,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1994 to 2005
Chair, BFA Review and Re-Structure Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1993 to 1996
Chair, BA Teacher Certification Curriculum Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1993 - 1995
Chair, SFA '98 Document Implementation Process
Committee, SFASU, 1993-94
Chair, Development of the Theatre Internship
Program Committee, SFASU, 1993-94
Member, Merit Assessment Committee
SFASU, 1993 to 2006
Administrator, Departmental Scholarship Auditions
SFASU, 1993 to 2005
Chair, Sub-Committee for NAST (National Association
of Schools of Theatre) Re-Accreditation Report
SFASU, 1992-93
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Stokes Foundation Scholarship Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984 -1986,
1988 to 2004
Member, Student Productions Advisory Committee
SFASU, 1991 to Present
Member, Student Productions Advisory Committee to

Re-Design the Policy and Procedures of the Student-
Directed Productions Program and initiate S.P.A.C.,
SFASU, 1990 - 91
Department of Theatre Representative to the Fine Arts
Council, SFASU, 1987-89, 1991-93, 1995-96, 1997-98, 99-00
Chair, Committee to Re-Structure the B.F.A.
Theatre Degree Program, SFASU, 1988
Committee to Re-Design the Summer Theatre Program,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1988
Department of Theatre Scholarship Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1988 to 2006
Workshop Instructor, UIL One-Act Play Clinic,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984 to 2006, 2009-10
Graduate Oral and Comprehensive Exams Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1986 to 2002
Editor, SFA Student Productions Handbook, Stephen F.
Austin State University, 1983 to Present
Graphic Design for SFA Department of Theatre
Production Posters, (over 40 including TERRA NOVA,
CABARET, SUMMER AND SMOKE,, AH. WILDERNESS, A
VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, INTO THE WOODS, ,
ACCOMPLICE, EFFECT/MARIGOLDS,KING LEAR, IN A
NORTHERN LANDSCAPE, NOISES OFF, AMERICAN
PLAY READING FESTIVAL, MEDEA, GYPSY, THE
MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE, THE DRESSER, CHICAGO, CAT ON A HOT TIN
ROOF, BRECHT ON BRECHT, WHO WILL CARRY THE
WORD?, TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, A
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, LES LIAISONS
DANGEREUSES, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING
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EARNEST, ROMEO AND JULIET, A MAN FOR ALL
SEASONS, MAJOR BARBARA, LOVERS AND OTHER

STRANGERS, TALKING PICTURES, HOME FIRES,
Summer Repertory Theatre
UNIVERSITY:
Keynote Address
Teaching Excellence Convocation, Stephen F. Austin State
University, April 4, 2000
Chair, 1999 - 2000
Member, Teaching Excellence Committee, 1997 - 99
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1997 - 2000
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League -
One Act Play Contest, Region III, Conference A,
Turner Auditorium, Stephen F. Austin State University,
1997 – 2004, 2006. 2010
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League –
One Act Play Contest, Region III, Conference A,
Nacogdoches High School, Nacogdoches, TX 2007 - 09
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League –
One Act Play Contest, Region III, Conference A,
McMichael Middle School, Nacogdoches, TX 2005
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League -
One Act Play Contest, Region III, Conference A,
T. J. Rusk Middle School, Nacogdoches, TX 1996
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League -
One Act Play Contest, Area 2, Region III, Conference A,
Turner Auditorium, Stephen F. Austin State University,
1994 - 1996
Vice-Chair, College of Fine Arts Council
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1995-96
Chair, College of Fine Arts Council
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1992-93
Member, College of Fine Arts Council
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1987-89,

1991-93, 1995-96, 1997-98, 99-00
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Lyceum and Faculty Programs Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1992 - 93
Fine Arts "University Scholar" Scholarship Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984, 1987 - 91
Ad Hoc Committee on an Honors Program,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1988 - 1990
University Affairs Committee,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1988
Committee to Revise Turner Auditorium
Operating Policy,
Stephen F. Austin State University, 1987
COMMUNITY:
Contest Manager, University Interscholastic League
One-Act Play Contest:
Region III, Conference A,
Nacogdoches, TX, 1996 -2009
Area 3, Region III, Conference A, SFASU,
Nacogdoches, TX, 1992 - 96
Critic Judge, University Interscholastic League
One-Act Play Contests, State of Texas:
Clear Creek High School (2 Zones) 2010
Abbott High School 2009
Frost High School 2009
Mt. Vernon High School 2009
Midlothian High School 2008
Paris Junior College 2007
Langham Creek, Houston 2006
Summit High School 2006

Katy High School, Houston 2005
Plano East High School, Dallas 2005
Price Middle School 2004
Bay City High School (2 Zones) 2004
Centerville High School 2004
Hamshire-Fannett High School 2003
Connally High School, Austin 2003
Madison High School, Houston 2002
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St. Phillips College, San Antonio 2002
Pasadena High School, Houston 2001, 2002
Stratford High School, Houston 2001
Zone A and B
Crowley High School 2001
East Chambers High School, Winnie 2001
Atlanta High School 2000
Pine Tree high School, Longview 2000
Cypress Creek High School, Houston 2000, 2003
Eustace High School 2000
Northbrook High School, Houston 1999
W.T. Whitehouse ISD, Dallas 1998
Sinton High School 1998
LaPorte High School 1997
Robert E. Lee High School, Tyler, 1997
Pharr San Juan Alamo High School 1996
Athens Middle School 1994
Edna High School 1994
Mt. Pleasant High School 1994
Cushing High School 1994, 1998
Madisonville High School 1993
Port Arthur High School 1993, 1997
Lincoln High School, Port Arthur 1999
Port Arthur Middle School 1995
Oakwood High School 1993
Panola Junior College 1992, 1994,
2010
Groesbeck High School 1992
Kilgore College 1991
Evadale High School 1991, 1995
1998, 1999
San Benito High School 1991
Hughes Springs High School 1991

Jacksonville Middle School 1991
Hull - Daisetta High School 1990
Columbus High School 1990
Liberty City High School 1990, 2001
2008
Cleveland - Tarkington High School 1989
Hardin - Jefferson High School 1989
Angelina College 1989, 1995
1998, 2005
2006, 2007
Clear Creek High School 1989
Texas A & I University 1989
Sabine Pass High School 1988, 1992,
1993, 1996
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Nacogdoches High School 1984, 1985,
1988, 1990
UIL-OAP Critic for Play Festival for 4A and 5A High
Schools, Houston, TX March 2004 - 2008
Director, THE SHADOW BOX, Humanities Perspective
Forum on Death and Dying with Dr. J.B. Watson, Professor
of Sociology and members of the East Texas Hospice, SFA
Summer Rep, July 9, 2005
Director, WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD?, Humanities
Perspective Forum on the Holocaust with Michael Jacobs,
a Holocaust survivor; Dr. Jere Jackson, SFA Professor of
History; and two actresses in the production, SFASU,
March 2, 1995.
Informance Speaker, Performing Arts Series,
Stephen F. Austin State University,
A RAISIN IN THE SUN, 2010
THE ELEPHANT MAN, 2009
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, 2008
BLITHE SPIRIT, 2007
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, 2006
HAIR, 2004
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, 2004

BACCHAE, 2003
HAMLET, 2001
TRRA NOVA, 2001
SUMMER AND SMOKE, 2000
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-
MOON MARIGOLDS, 1999
WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD?, 1995
LES LIAISONS DANGEREURSE, 1995
Workshop Instructor, One-Act Play Workshop for High
Schools from Center, Timpson, and Tenaha, Tenaha, TX,
1989
Director, CLOSE TIES, Humanities Perspective Forum on
Problems of the Aged and the Aging Process, SFASU,
Nacogdoches, Texas, 1988
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Dialect Coach, La Porte High School, La Porte, Texas
MY FAIR LADY 2004
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 2003
GUYS AND DOLLS 2001
ME AND MY GIRL 1994
TOM JONES 1990
NOISES OFF 1988
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 1987
OLIVER 1985
Director, AS IS, Humanities Perspective Forum on the
AIDS Crisis, SFASU, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1987
Instructor, "Acting Process Workshop," North Dakota
State University, Fargo, North Dakota, 1983 and 1984
Director, CLOSE TIES, Humanities Perspective Forum on
Problems of the Aged and the Aging Process,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982

Director, THE SHADOW BOX, Humanities Perspective
Forum on Death and Dying, Dickinson, North Dakota, 1979
Director, Creative Dramatics Workshops for
Underprivileged Children; Center, Hensler, McClusky,
Turtle Lake, Underwood, and Washburn, North Dakota,
1971
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching by SFASU
Foundation, Inc. at Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, TX, 2008
Distinguished Alumni Fellow
for the Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 2008
Piper Professor of Texas
Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation
San Antonio, TX, May, 2006
University Teaching Excellence Award,
SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX, April 16, 1996
College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award,
SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX, April 16, 1996
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SFA 10 and 20 Year Faculty Service Award, 2003 & 1993
Faculty Development Grant, College of Fine Arts,
Observation and Study with Young People’s
Conservatory under Craig Slaight, Director, and Jack
Sharrar, Registrar, at American Conservatory Theatre
in San Francisco, CA, March 1998
Faculty Development Grant, College of Fine Arts,
Study voice and Observe Meisner Technique with
Trudie Kessler, DePaul University, Chicago, IL,
August 1996.
Tenure awarded, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, TX, May 1992

Phi Sigma Pi, Honorary Academic Fraternity, DSU
Alpha Psi Omega, Honorary Theatre Fraternity, DSU
Pi Kappa Delta, Honorary Forensics Fraternity, NDSU
Kappi Pi, Honorary Art Fraternity, DSU
Acting Certificate of Merit, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982
Directing Certificate of Merit, BONJOUR, LA, BONJOUR,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982
Outstanding Theatre Graduate Award, Dickinson State
University, Dickinson, North Dakota, 1979
Children's Theatre Award, Dickinson State University,
Dickinson, North Dakota, 1970
Best Actor, HELLO, DOLLY!, Dickinson State University,
Dickinson, North Dakota, 1970
Best Actor, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY,
Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North Dakota, 1969
Memberships: SFASU Alumni Association Life Member #7227
Nacogdoches, TX, December 2006
Texas Educational Theatre Association
1984 to Present
TETA UIL One-Act Play Certified Critic Judge
1988 to Present
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
American Theatre
May 1984 to Present
American Theatre Association
1981 - 1984
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Rocky Mountain Theatre Association
1982 – 1984
First Lutheran Church
Washburn, ND, 1962 to present