Awarded the 2022 Stardust Award for Distinguished HS Performing Arts Educator 

Experience directing musicals, straight plays, one-act play competitions, dinner theatres, traveling shows, as well as directing for different types of stages

Continued Professional Development Training: Educational Theatre, Directing, Auditioning, Improvisation, Beginning & Advanced Acting, Shakespeare, acting methods, such as Stanislavski & Meisner, Ann Bogart’s Viewpoints, Uta Hagen & 9 Questions, Cohen & his GOTE Sheet, Technical Theatre, Costume Design, Children’s Theatre, College Auditioning, etc.

Twenty-six years experience Teaching, Directing, Publicity/ Marketing/ Box Office and Theatre Management

Twenty-six years involvement in ITS- the International Thespian Society

Member of the Texas Educational Theatre Association- 26 years

Numerous 1st Place Awards at the PISD HS One-Act Play Festivals

Produced over 60 mainstage productions

Built program to include Productions classes for Acting and Technical theatre students, Shepton Players and Shepton Producers, which follow the Advanced Theatre Curriculum

Built program to incorporate an Advanced Theatre 1 and Advanced Theatre 2 into the Advanced Theatre Curriculum

Built program to include a Community Outreach Show for the feeder middle school students as well as a Children’s Show for the feeder elementary students

Built a service aspect into the program- advanced students have requirement of semester service hours and BRAVO Theatre Club sponsors a fall and spring service project each year

Writer/editor for a revision of the theatre arts textbook, Basic Drama Projects

Awarded PTA Lifetime Member