Lead Theatre Director
CLAY WHEELER loves teaching at his Alma Mater (PSHS Class of 2004)! This is Clay's sixth year as Lead Theatre Director at Plano Senior High School, but he's been a theatre director in Plano ISD since 2011. He teaches Theatre 1-4, Musical Theatre 1 & 2 and Theatre Productions 1-4. Last year's UIL OAP production of Bob: A Life in Five Acts earned numerous awards. Once Upon a Mattress, last year's musical, earned several nominations for the Schmidt & Jones High School Musical Theatre Awards. His production of Shrek: The Musical won the Broadway Dallas High School Musical Theatre Award for Outstanding Stage Management in 2025.
Mr. Wheeler began his teaching career at Haggard Middle School, where he spent three years teaching theatre and speech. He then spent five years running an award-winning and nationally recognized Theatre Department & Speech Team at Schimelpfenig Middle School. Under his tenure, the SMS theatre department placed four consecutive years at UIL One-Act Play Competition, and the Speech Team won a National Award of Excellence in Speech as well as back-to-back City Championships. He then served as the Theatre and Technical Theatre Director at Vines High School. In his two years at Vines High School, the theatre department earned the top award at the PISD High School One-Act Play Competition both times!
Clay earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Baylor University in 2008. While at Baylor, he focused on Acting, Directing & Playwriting.
When not at school, Clay is an actor and improviser and has appeared in multiple productions with Shakespeare Dallas (most recently in last summer's The Importance of Being Earnest), as well as productions with Theatre Three, WaterTower Theatre, Stage West and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others, and is the recipient of multiple DFW Critics Forum Awards. He is also a voice actor for Crunchyroll where he's been featured on dozens of projects, including My Hero Academia, FairyTail, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul, Black Clover and many others.
Clay is a Plano native and attended Plano schools from K-12th grade, graduating from Plano Senior High School in 2004. Clay lives in Plano and is the proud husband of Jennifer and father of Winnie & Junie (and fur-dad to Ginny).
Technical Theatre Director
LEX SANANIKONE is thrilled to be joining the Central Theatre Cluster as the Technical Director at PSHS. This is her 5th year teaching. She previously ran the theatre program at Robinson Middle School. Ms. Lex has been involved in theatre since the 4th grade right here in Plano ISD. She is looking forward to giving back to the theatre community that she grew up in. She received her B.A in Theatre Education from Texas Woman's University. Ms. Lex loves spending time with her daughter (Londyn), playing with their two cats (Anna and Olaf), reading, playing video games, and watching anime. It's going to be a wonderful year of theatre! Go Wildcats!
"There is magic in the theatre, and the theatre is magic. Blessed are those who get to share their talents with others"
Theatre Director
BRI WEHMAN is thrilled to be joining the Central Theatre Cluster as the Technical Director at PSHS. This is her 5th year teaching. She previously ran the theatre program at Robinson Middle School. Ms. Lex has been involved in theatre since the 4th grade right here in Plano ISD. She is looking forward to giving back to the theatre community that she grew up in. She received her B.A in Theatre Education from Texas Woman's University. Ms. Lex loves spending time with her daughter (Londyn), playing with their two cats (Anna and Olaf), reading, playing video games, and watching anime. It's going to be a wonderful year of theatre! Go Wildcats!
"There is magic in the theatre, and the theatre is magic. Blessed are those who get to share their talents with others"