Jeanne Everton

Associate Professor of Theatre, Acting and Directing

Jeanne  Everton, Associate Professor of Theatre, is Director of Acting and Directing Studies and serves as the Program Coordinator for Wesleyan's Integrated Arts Core.  She holds the B.A. in Speech and Drama from Trinity University and the M.A. in Drama from Texas Woman's University. She has undertaken additional study at Indiana University, Pennsylvania State University, Texas Tech University and with a variety of theatre, film and television professionals including Catherine Weidner, Tony Barr, Tom Babson, Dennis Gallegos, Squire Fridell, and Catherine Fitzmaurice.

The Dallas Theatre League and the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival have recognized her acting and directing.  Jeanne was named Best Stage Actress in Dallas by The Dallas Observer for her performance in George and Shaherazade, sad, sad, sad.  Other professional honors include being named multiple times to Who's Who Among Teachers in American Colleges and Universities and Who's Who Among American Women.

Her performance credits include roles in  A Delicate Balance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Birds, The Norman Conquests Trilogy, Eleemosynary, The Seagull, Private Lives,  Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba, Mary Stuart, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew,  You Can't Take It With You, Small Craft Warnings, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, and Marat/Sade.  Favorite directing projects include: Agnes of God, The Three Sisters, Joe Egg, All in the Timing, The Importance of Being Earnest, She Stoops to Conquer, The Little Foxes, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hair!, Songs for a New World, and Suor Isabella.

With a variety of professional experience to bring to the classroom (actress, director, dramaturg, designer, talent agent and casting director), Jeanne he has taught acting and directing at colleges and universities for twenty years. She also teaches on-camera acting for film and television, Meisner Method acting classes, and entrepreneurship for performers at S.T.A.G.E. in Dallas, Texas and throughout the country.

Courses taught at Wesleyan: Acting I, Acting II, Acting III, Acting IV, Acting Styles: Shakespeare, Acting Styles: Musical Theatre, Acting Styles: Comedy/Improvisation, Acting Styles: Auditioning, Acting for the Camera, Theatre Voice Production, Movement for Actors, Dialects, Script Analysis, Advanced Script Analysis, Directing, Advanced Directing, B.F.A. Project, Elements of the Arts (Integrated Arts Core), Contexts for the Arts (Integrated Arts Core), Innovations in the Arts (Integrated Arts Core)