You may be wondering, with all the talk of our current students' achievements, just what happens to our performers once they've graduated? Here is where you can find that information - we are always on the lookout for our graduates' names in the spotlights, and we are so very proud of those who have made successful careers!
We will be updating this page as new information comes in, so please add us to your favorites and check back to read exciting press releases about all of our fabulous alumni! Don't forget to read about our current students' accomplishments as well!
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Sai Baig Powers (BA/Theatre 2008) Stage Manager for Cookie Company at Phoenix Theatre in Phoenix, AZ; Box Office Associate at Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
Carrie Buettner (BFA/Theatre Design and Performance 2006) Resident Design Assistant for Hawaii Opera in Honolulu, HI; Design Assistant for Helen Rodgers/assisting her at Mannes Opera, Manhattan School of Music, Chautauqua Opera in NY; Wardrobe Supervisor for Playwrights Horizons in NY.
Dan E. Campbell (BA/Theatre 1980) Los Angeles-based Actor. Various credits include: (Movies) The Vampire Hunters Club, The Audition; (Television) Unsolved Mysteries, Fox Movie Channel Comedy Marathon, As The World Turns, General Hospital, has appeared as a presenter and performer in the annual Golden Raspberry Awards show (The Razzies); (Theatre) Inspector Clay in Plan 9 From Outer Space - The Musical, Dvornichek in Rough Crossing, Sister Dolores in Angry Young Teen-Age Girl Gang (Off-Broadway), appearance in Comic Relief as part of improvisational comedy group Carry a Big Schtick. www.danecampbell.com
Paul Colella (BFA/Design & Technical Theatre 2005) McClelland Sound in Wichita, designing sound systems for customers ranging from restraunts to churches, arenas and University settings
Dean Corrin (BA/Theatre 1977) Associate Dean, Chair of Theatre Studies, Co-Head of Playwriting Program at The Theatre School DePaul University; member of the Playwrights Ensemble at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre; playwright.
Hal Davis (BA/Theatre 1972) Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Musical Theatre @ University of North Carolina Pembroke; previous performance credits: Broadway: Titanic, Sound of Music; National Tours: Titanic (1st National), Joseph...Dreamcoat (1st National), Grease, The King and I (with Sandy Duncan); graduate London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. www.professorhal.com
Aaron Glover (BFA/Musical Theatre 2008) MFA from University of Houston's Professional Theatre Training Program, Houston, TX; currently appearing in TEXAS in in Palo Duro Canyon; previous performance credits include Mainstreet Theatre, TX, Light Opera Oklahoma, Great Plains Theatre Festival, KS
Gerald (Jerry) Goehring (BA/Theatre) Producer: Goehring Evans Productions: Current project is A Christmas Story, the musical; Grammy-nominated producer (Best Spoken Word for Children); founder of The Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston; co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Connecticut Children’s Theatre (CCT); served as the Executive Director/CEO of the Tony Award-winning National Theatre of the Deaf; general manager and/or producer for eighteen New York productions; Executive Director of the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Zack Powell (BFA/Theatre Performance 2009) MFA candidate at Ilinois State University; previous performance credits include Timberlake Playhouse in IL, Shawnee Playhouse in PA, Great Plains Theatre Festival in KS and Crown Uptown and Wichita Center for the Arts in Wichita, KS
Cassidy Proctor (BFA/Theatre Performance 2007) Cast member of J.B. and Sandy Morning Show, Mix 94.7, Austin TX www.cassidayproctor.com
Cody Proctor (BFA/Theatre Performance and Dance 2006) Performer. Upcoming: role of Franklin in The Moonstone with Lifeline Theatre in Chicago; previous credits: performance intern with Redmoon Theatre, The Crucible with Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, two summers company member with Illinois Shakespere (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, Richard III); Comedy of Errors at St. Louis Shakespeare; The Dresser at Wichita Center for the Arts; performer with Alithea Mime Theatre Company. www.codyproctor.com
Patty Reeder (BA/Theatre) Co-founder/owner of Mosley Street Melodrama and performer
Jamison Rhoads (BFA/Theatre Performance 1996; MFA in Design from Temple Univ. 2001) Currently TD and Resident Designer for Cowley College, KS. Previous credits: Intern at Julliard; worked Off- and Off-off-Broadway, assisted with Off-Broadway and Broadway production of Beauty Queen of Leenane; designed Disco Pigs for 2001 NYC Fringe Festival; Instructor & TD for Tufts University (2001-'02); Professor of Lighting Design & TD @ University of New Orleans (2002-'04)
Mike Roark (BA/Theatre 1987) Director (Music Theatre for Young People; Mosley Street Melodrama, Wichita Center for the Arts, Prairie Pines Festivals Inc.); Actor (Mosley Street Melodrama, Wichita Center for the Arts, Prairie Pines Festivals, Inc.); Playwright; owner Melodrama Mike's Play Service
Evan Schmidt (BFA/Design & Technical Theatre 2008) MFA candidate in Ohio University Production, Design & Technology Program; Lighting Designer for Monomoy Theatre, Cape Cod 2009 Summer Season
Diane Scott (BA/Theatre 1991 & MBA/Management 1996) Professional Development Program Manager for the UMKC Small Business & Technology Development Center; Co-developer of KCArtistLink; curriculum creater and administer of the Artist, INC program--an eight week seminiar to teach artists the business end of their arts careers
Kip Scott (BFA/Theatre Performance 1997) Founder and Owner of Prairie Pines Festivals, Inc.
Shannon Smith (BFA/Design & Techincal Theatre 2008) MFA candidate in Ohio University Production, Design & Technology Program; stitcher at Glimmerglass Opera NY summer 2009
Kate Snodgrass (BA/Theatre) Artistic Director Boston Playwrights Theatre; Playwright; graduate of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Cory Lee Taves (BFA/Musical Theatre 2008) Singing Gondolier at the Venetian in Las Vegas; previous performance credits: Night at the Bijou in Hawaii and Broadcast Live in Atlantic City
John Taylor (BA/Theatre 1988, Ph.D. Ohio State University) Professor of Theatre, Adams State College, CO
Mark Toland (BFA in Music Theatre 2009) Magician based out of Los Angeles currently performing his one-man show over a hundred times year round; www.marktoland.com
Julius Thomas, III (BFA/Musical Theatre 2005) Performer: Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys at Lyceum Theatre; Off-Broadway The Scottsboro Boys at the Vineyard Theatre. Previous credits: Off-Broadway: Dial 'N' for Negress, National Tours: Radio City Christmas Spectacular National Tour; 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Zanadu; www.juliusthomas3.com
Ron Wilson (BGS/Theatre emphasis) Katharine Bakeless Nason Professor of Theater and Department Chair @ Case Western Reserve University, OH; member SSDC, AEA, and Dramatist Guild of America; previous credits include Founder and Artistic Director of Actors' Mime Theatre; Founding Board Member and past president of Association of Theatre Movement Educators
Do you have information about a School of Performing Arts graduate that you don't see on this page? E-mail it to us at PerformingArts@wichita.edu, along with any supplemental information (website links, photos, etc.) so that we can post it on our webpage for all to see!