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Here is what some of our Alumni are doing:
Caroline Ash (2005) I hope everyone is doing great! I have been keeping busy with theatre at West Texas A&M. I have been in many plays so far and am about to go to ACTF(a theatre competition) in Tulsa Oklahoma for the second year in March. Not only am I doing theatre constantly but I am working too. I work for a leasing company here in Canyon and thank God they pay for my rent...or else I'd live in a cardboard box. Anyways I hope everyone is having an amazing time at school or with whatever they are doing and I hope we can all keep in touch! ......

Eric Czechowski (2004) is attending Southern Methodist University majoring in Music Education. He has been earning a living leading the praise and worship band at First United Methodist Church, giving guitar lessons, as well as singing at coffee bars, parties and weddings. After graduation Eric plans on joining his friend Tyler in Nashville writing songs and cues for television, as well as working on writing and recording for his own cd. You can hear some of Eric's music by going to Eric's Myspace page http://myspace.com/EricCzechowski.

Eric Feldman (2004) is currently attending Southwestern University working towards a BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting. He has been active in the main stage productions as an actor and a director as well as participating in student productions. Next fall he will be interning at a Theatre in New York City.

Paul Lindquist (2003) is a first year acting student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is working on a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. He intends to pursue a career in acting, either in Los Angeles or New York. He would love to answer any questions from anyone interested in becoming an actor.

Susie Perkins (2003) is enrolled in the honors program at Emerson College in Boston. She is working towards her BFA in Acting. She is thoroughly enjoying her experience in school, and in Boston. Her current schedule includes classes in Lighting, Costumes, Performance and Ritual, as well as Improvisation and Movement. She has also been assigned to a production crew working on props. Susie just completed 3 performances playing a grandma in a student directed play. She is also interested in puppetry and Children's Theatre. Next fall Susie will attend Emerson's Netherlands campus where she will also visit Amsterdam, Paris, Florence and other European cities.

Grant Stanis (2003) is currently attending the University of Texas in Austin. He is concurrently working on his Bachelor and Master's Degree in Accounting. He is involved in Student Government and the Undergraduate Business Council. Currently he works as a legislative support staffer for State Senator Florence Shapiro. He is considering law school after he finishes his schooling at UT.

Brandon Weinbrenner (2003) is a freshman at the University of Minnesota and the Guthrie Theatre's BFA Acting Training Program. He balances academics at the University, classes at the University's theatre program, and training at the Guthrie Theatre. His year will consist of classes in Acting, Voice and Speech, Text Analysis, Yoga, African Dance, and Circus Skills. Beyond the first year experience, Brandon will study abroad with his 17 classmates in either Ireland or London.

Weston Keifer (2002) Weston continues to work in the Emerson scene shop 6-7 days a week building all kinds of stuff for shows. He also continues to work for almost all the theatres in and around Boston. He will be graduating in December, 2005 and plans to stay in Boston, unless he gets a tour with Cirque de Soile. Weston worked as assistant designer for “Twelfth Night” and was master welder on the rest of the shows at Emerson. He headed up all the metal shop projects, welded huge 12' tall wagons, and over saw other metal shop projects. At the end of the year he was assistant designer, technical director, and master welder for the 23rd annual EVVY awards. This huge student-run awards show that is televised... Next year he will be assistant technical director for “All the Kind Family” in the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson and will be designer for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” He has worked for almost every theatre in and around Boston, and worked for the Democratic National Convention.

Chris Czechowski (2002) graduated from the University of North Texas in Music Education in 2006, and is now the choir director at Haggard Middle School in Plano. In his spare time, he plays piano/keyboard/guitar and sings with the Contemporary service praise and worship band at Lover's Lane United Methodist church, where he also directs the praise and worship choir.

Lucas Kavner (2002) is going to be a junior next year at Middlebury College in Vermont. Since being at Middlebury he has played roles in The Cherry Orchard, Electra, Never Swim Alone, and Alice in Wonderland. This summer he will go to Washington D.C. and perform in The Best Man by Gore Vidal as part of the Potomac Theatre Project. He is the concert manager of the radio station, WRMC, and is a member of the Otter Nonsense Players, the improvisation group on campus. Next year he will perform in Burn This by Lanford Wilson, and in the spring he will head to Prague to study abroad. He doesn’t know why he picked Prague since he doesn’t speak Czech, but why not, right?

Rachel Rusch (2002) recently completed her sophomore year at Boston University's School of Theatre Arts, where she is majors in acting. This year, she was seen playing the lead of Seta in the production "Beast on the Moon," she was involved in Gao XinJan's "The Other Shore," and will be seen on the Boston University Mainstage production of "Romeo and Juliet" as Lady Capulet. This summer, she will be making her professional debut in the Huntington Theatre's production of "The Rose Tattoo," by Tennessee Williams. She will be directed by Broadway director, Nicholas Martin, and Tony/Emmy award winning actress, Andrea Martin, will be playing the lead role of Serifina. Rachel is excited to be playing the role of Theresa with such a talented cast. After the show closes, Rachel will be teaching with Boston University's Summer Theatre Institute, and looks forward to studying with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic arts in the spring of next year.

Casey Switzer (2002) is a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin. She participated in Freshman Diaries on Showtime Networks. Freshman Diaries is a 10-episode documentary that followed 12 students during their freshman year. Their web site is at www.sho.com/freshman. Casey has also attended an improv workshop in Austin with “Heroes of Comedy.”

Katherine (Kat) Thorne (2002) is a sophomore at Baylor University, earning a BFA in Performance. Currently, she is helping to build the sets for their next play, Little Shop of Horrors. She will also be on the makeup crew for this show. Kat is in several directing scenes, and helps with the Horton Foote Annual Playwright's Festival. This is the first year that Baylor is sponsoring this festival. Horton Foote, a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning playwright and screenwriter, is a friend of the department. The university is expecting actors such as Matthew Broderick, Ellen Burstyn, and Robert Duvall to attend!

Kelley Dorney (2001) is going into her third year as a BFA Musical Theatre major at Emerson College in Boston. Last year she was the secretary of the Musical Theatre Society (MTS) on campus. This organization produces multiple shows each year, performs cabarets and holds both an annual auction and a one-week fundraiser for Equity Fights AIDS. Last year she performed in The Women and in the spring musical, Of Thee I Sing, in which she played Mary Turner. This year she is the Vice President of MTS and is in rehearsals for Carousel in which she will play Louise. Kelley is also part of a local professional sorority called Kappa Gamma Chi.

Bridget Dougherty (2001) has just finished a “huge, tremendous semester” at SMU. She just closed her fourth show of the semester The Mill on the Floss, which was their last mainstage production of the year and in which she was Maggie Two. Previously, she was the Production Stage Manager for SMU’s New Visions, New Voices festival and was also the dramaturge for their annual fountain show. This year that show was As You Like It. Brilliant Traces, which she directed, opened at the end of February. On top of all of this she has her school work, of course! Her emphasis is in Design and Directing. Her next show opening at SMU will be in the fall, Tucaret, which will open in mid-October. Bridget also won an "EVVY" at Emerson for Outstanding Vocal Performance for "Gimme Gimme" from "Thoroughly Modern Millie." She has no plans yet for the summer, other than hanging out in Dallas. But then that will be a welcome break for this self proclaimed masochistic workaholic!

Byron Melton (2001) Byron will graduate in May from SMU with a BFA and then head to L.A. where he is thinking of attending UC Irvine for an acting MFA. In the fall, he was the Marquess in Turcaret, Jerry in Tales of the lost Formicans, and Robert in Proof. He directed W;t by Margaret Edson and BASH by Neil Labute. Currently, he is directing a new play called SHELTER, and will play Buckingham in Richard the III. During his freshman year he portrayed John Hinkley in Steven Sondheim's Assassins. As a sophomore he played the Drum Major in Woyzeck by Georg Buchner and directed Two Rooms by Lee Blessing. Over the summer he played Marcellus in Creed Repertory Theater's production of Hamlet. In December Byron played Chorus in "Antigone". He directed "A Memory of Two Mondays" by Arthur Miller in January. Then in April he produced a feature length movie featuring the Music of RadioHead's new Album "Hail to the Thief" in which he also directed two short films.

Kate Nigro (2001) just completed her junior year at the University of San Francisco. Her major is in English Literature and her minor is in History. Kate will spend next fall and spring in London at a university connected with her school. She will return to USF the following fall to complete her degree.

Travis Smith (2001) is currently a junior at The Boston Conservatory, working on a BFA in Musical Theatre. Last December, he was Pichick in their production of The Cherry Orchard, directed by Jason Slavick. He just finished an internship as the production assistant for The Dallas Summer Musicals working on Suessical, Blast, Cirque Dreams, Beauty and the Beast, The Will Rogers Follies, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Starlight Express. Look in your playbills for Wright Smith! He is currently President of the Student Government Association at the Boston Conservatory.

Brittany Wooten (2001) has finished her Junior year as a Choral Music Ed. major at Ouachita Baptist University. She is currently a member of the Ouachita Singers and just got back from a European tour with that group. She also had the opportunity to travel as a Ouachita singer to Shanghai, China in December of 2002. Brittany has also stayed involved in theatre at Ouachita and has been in the musicals Secret Garden and South Pacific as well as participating in a one act play called Ascension Day last fall. During the summer she worked at the "It's About Time Productions" musical theatre camp for kids where she taught with professional Broadway actors. This fall she will be studying abroad in Salzburg, Austria and is very excited about that! She is Vice President of Sigma Alpha Iota, a women's music fraternity and has recently been initiated into Theta Alpha Phi, a National Honorary Fraternity for Theatre Arts.

Tom Romero(1980) Tom took a little time off from performing to enjoy the holidays (and avoid playing too many Christmas songs) and travel to see family and friends. He recently worked on a film, a western, titled "Into The West". He said it was "great to be in period costumes with horses running round and campfires." He stayed on the set as long as he could, but had to get back to work. He reminds us that "Yes, musicians and actors have to pay the bills too. Sometimes we're forced to choose between our art and our need to pay the bills. So if you like music, art, theatre, dance, film, remember to be nice to the performers...most of them are working two jobs." Tom recently appeared in "Greater Tuna" at the Sante Fe Playhouse. He played about a dozen characters including men, women, children, and a very annoying dog. Tom currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and just released his second CD "Bump". In 2003 he can be heard covering Cisco's "The Thong Song" in the film Undercover Brother, and his song Amputee from his forthcoming CD. Bump is in regular rotation on 102.9 Enchantment FM in Santa Fe. Tom appeared in several off-off broadway productions in New York where he shared an apartment with other PSHS Theatre alumni Randy Copus, John Hickey, Chuck Castleberry, and Trigger (whose last name he can't remember). He met his wife and moved to L.A. where he appeared in many more productions. He appeared for five years off & on in Days of Our lives. His voice appeared in 52 episodes of the cartoon Super Pig.


Paul Douglas (1976) performed in several plays at Plano, including “Calamity Jane” (1974), “1776” (1975), “Damn Yankees”, “Fiddler on the Roof” and some one act plays. He now lives with his wife in Tampa, Florida. He has traveled as a stand up comic and is currently taking classes at St. Petersburg College in Digital Film Production.