Designer and Instructor of Theatre
Office: DWA #101A
Office Phone: (817) 531-4925
Email: bbristol@txwes.edu
Brynn Bristol is the Costume Shop Manager and Instructor of Theatre. She received her B.A. from North Texas State University and her M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the Wesleyan faculty, Brynn worked as a freelance artist. Her work included directing, set designing, and scenic artist for various theatres in the Metroplex and The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. From 1986 to 1995 she served as the Assistant Managing Director of Fort Worth Theatre and as Managing Director from 1995 to 1999. At FWT she was resident director, set designer, scenic artist, development director and actress. In addition to her work at FWT she has worked in various capacities at Casa Manana, Stage West, Jubilee Theatre, Backdoor Theatre, Gaslight Dinner Theatres and the Granbury Opera House.
Brynn’s academic work includes teaching Introduction to Theatre, Enjoyment of Drama, Stagecraft, Scene Painting, Set and Costume Design, Costume Construction and Tech I and II. She has taught at Midwestern State University, Tarrant County College NE and Texas Woman’s University. She has also conducted workshops for various universities and organizations.
Professor of Theatre and Speech
Director of Freshman Studies
Office: OCH #108
Office Phone: (817) 531-6520
Cell phone: 817 313 0993
Email: jbrown@txwes.edu
joeabrown@sbcglobal.netJoe Allen Brown is Professor of Theatre Arts and both past Chair of Theatre and Dean of Fine Arts at Texas Wesleyan University. He currently serves as the Academic Dean of Freshmen at Texas Wesleyan and also is the chair of the Mass Communications department. A Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate with a B.A. in Theatre and Speech from the University of Arkansas, Joe also has an M.F.A. in Theatre Design from Southern Methodist University. Fall of 2009 marks Joe’s 32nd year at Texas Wesleyan where he has received both faculty and student awards for excellence in teaching and also recognition and awards for his service to the University through his community involvement in theatre arts, A.I.D.S. education and outreach and also animal rescue and rehabilitation. Joe is a past recipient of the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with the theatres in Fort Worth and Tarrant County.
Brown is the Past President of the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County just having served four consecutive terms and was one of the lead judges for Casa Manana’s Betty Buckley High School Musical Theatre Awards for five consecutive years. He has also adjudicated for the state theatre competition of the Texas Non-Profit Theatres. Joe is a past regional design chair for the American College Theatre Festival and has also designed and directed for area theatres such as Jubilee Theatre, Fort Worth Theatre, Circle Theatre, Stage West, Onstage Theatre and Artisan Theatre. He has been a U.I.L. One Act Play Critic Judge for 23 years.
Last academic year, Brown directed and designed Texas Wesleyan’s production of It’s A Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play in collaboration with Artisan Center Theatre. In addition to directing and designing Driving Miss Daisy at Artisan last spring, he was then involved as part of a community effort of arts organizations and various theatres in the More Life project: The Art and Science of AIDS; a collaborative effort with Fort Worth Opera, AIDS Outreach Center, AIDS Resources of Rural Texas , Samaritan House and Tarrant County AIDS Interfaith Network. For that project he also directed Lonely Planet for Amphibian Theatre.
This fall he was involved in the Miranda Writes Players a theatre effort sponsored by Texas Re-Entry Services which works to place paroled criminals back into society.
Along with being involved in the theatre community of the metroplex, Professor Brown is also the principle faculty and Director of the GST 1111: The Freshmen Success Experience courses for freshmen and the senior theatre faculty of Theatre Wesleyan. He is also the sponsor for the Wesleyan Toastmasters speaking organization, Wesleyan’s GSA: Gay Straight Alliance, which is a diversity group for Gays and Lesbians and people that support Human Rights; and co- sponsors Gamma Sigma Sigma – Wesleyan’s Women’s Service Sorority.
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Studio: Sone Fine Arts Center
Email: edubberly@txwes.edu
Elizabeth King Dubberly, soprano, joined the Texas Wesleyan University theatre faculty in 2007. She earned a bachelor’s degree in German from Southern Connecticut State University and a master’s degree in voice from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Dubberly has performed with Opera Carolina, Opera Carolina Theatre, Dorian Opera Theatre, the Knoxville Opera Company, Chattanooga Opera, Amarillo Opera, Pensacola Opera, American Bel Canto Opera, and Cartersville Opera. Some of her roles include Susanna, Pamina, Zerlina, Despina, Gilda, Violetta, Norina, Mme. Silberklang, Gretel, Cio-Cio San, and Mary Warren.
Ms. Dubberly has been named in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005/2006, and in 1997 she received recognition as Outstanding Music Teacher by the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. She has taught voice at the University of North Texas, the University of Tennessee, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, and Davidson College. Ms. Dubberly is the founder and artistic director of Totally Vocal!, a workshop for young singers. She is also the creator of Beyond the Classroom, an interactive collaboration with high school choral groups exploring opera. She served as co-director of the Knoxville Opera Company’s Education and Outreach program for five years. Ms. Dubberly has been stage director for UNT Opera Theatre’s Summer Opera Workshop since 2001, staging productions of Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Cendrillon, and The Marriage of Figaro. In 2004, Ms. Dubberly conducted master classes and served as guest director for the Coro Municipal Voces Queretanas in Querétaro, Mexico in excerpts from La traviata. Ms. Dubberly is also featured as a performer in the 2005 publication of Lois Alba’s Vocal Rescue: Rediscover the Beauty, Power, and Freedom in Your Singing.
Associate Professor of Theatre
Director of Acting & Directing Studies
Coordinator of Integrated Arts Core
Office: Dan Waggoner Annex #103
Office Phone: 817-531-6572
Email: jeverton@txwes.edu
Having earned a B.A. in Speech and Drama from Trinity University and an M.A. in Drama from Texas Woman's University, Jeanne has undertaken additional study at Indiana University--Bloomington, Pennsylvania State University, Texas Tech University and with a variety of theatre, film and television professionals including Tom Babson, Tony Barr, Squire Fridell, Dennis Gallegos, and Catherine Fitzmaurice. She has taught acting and directing at colleges and universities for more than twenty-five years, the last nine at Wesleyan.
The Dallas Observer named Jeanne the Best Stage Actress in Dallas for her performance in George and Shaherazade, sad, sad, sad and she earned The Dallas Theatre League’s Leon Rabin Award nomination for her work in A Delicate Balance. 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.
Among her performance credits, Jeanne’s favorite roles include Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sarah in The Norman Conquests, Dorothea in Eleemosynary, Arkadina in The Seagull, Angustius in The House of Bernarda Alba, Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart, Catherine in And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Simonne in Marat/Sade and Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa, a production directed by her Wesleyan colleague Dwight Sandell. She has directed more than forty plays and musicals and particularly enjoyed staging Agnes of God, Assassins, The Three Sisters, Joe Egg an Robert Rodriguez’s opera Suor Isabella.
Having worked professionally for nearly 40 years as an actor, director, dramaturg, designer, talent agent, casting director and producer, Jeanne brings a wide variety of experience to the classroom. She teaches on-camera acting for film and television, Meisner Method acting classes, and entrepreneurship for performers at S.T.A.G.E. in Dallas and throughout the country.
Jeanne records for Reading and Radio Resource, a Dallas agency providing alternatives to reading for those who are visually or physically disabled and/or learning differenced, and she broadcasts a weekly program for NTRB, North Texas Radio for the Blind. In the fall of 2008, she will publish an eBook titled The Beginner’s Guide to Acting in Commercials, the first volume of the series, Actors, Inc: The Art, Craft and Business of Acting.
Assistant Production Manager, Box Office Coordinator
Office: Dan Waggoner Annex #100A
Office Phone: 817-531-5867
Email: emaroney@txwes.edu
In addition to her other duties, Erica serves as Graphic and Web Designer for the Theatre Department. She also serves as a mentor for student graphic and publicity designers for Theatre Wesleyan productions and Departmental publicity. Prior to joining Wesleyan’s staff Erica worked on- and off-stage at local theatres in the DFW Metroplex including Dallas Theatre Center (Performer in Center Stage Gala and House Manager for Down a Long Road), Theatre Britain (Sarah in The Day After the Fair, Properties Runner for No Sex Please, We're British; Light Board Operator for Communicating Doors; and Stage Manager for The Frog Prince), Bass Hall (Dresser for touring productions), Casa Manana (Stitcher and Dresser) and Theatre Three (Becky in Sly Fox and Hagga in Thirteen Clocks) where she also served as a production intern. Erica is an alumna of Theatre Wesleyan and holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance.
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Phone Messages: 817-531-5867
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Designer and Technical Director
Office: DWA #100B
Office Phone: (817) 531-4892
Email: bstevenson@txwes.edu
Bryan holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Texas Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Design from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He has designed at many local theatre companies including: Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park, Stage West, Jubilee, and Circle. Nationally Bryan designs for the Boy Scouts of America National Conferences and Shows. Bryan is an active participant in the United Institute of Theatre Technology, where he has served on panels on lighting and scenic design. He is also a member Stagehands Union, IATSE local 126.
Professor and Chair of Theatre
Director of Playwriting Program
Office: Dan Waggoner Annex #104
Office Phone: 817-531-5866
Email: cwhittlambert@txwes.eduConnie received her Master’s Degree in Playwriting & Directing from Texas Woman’s University and her BA in Theatre & English with teaching certification from Trinity University in San Antonio where she studied with Paul Baker. She is the author of more than a dozen plays, produced at both local and national venues. Locally her work has been seen on the stages of Circle Theatre, Stage West, The Main Street Arts Festival, Six Flags, Theatre Wesleyan, Main Street Theatre, The Scott Theatre, Gaslight Dinner Theatre, and local schools. Nationally her work has been produced by theatres and universities from New Jersey to Oklahoma. Connie's script Second Coming was presented by the Nebraska Repertory Theatre at Edward Albee’s Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2006; her play, Ice was presented at the Conference in 2007. Her western homage to Shakespeare, Boot Lick has been produced more than a dozen times by theatres across Texas and Georgia; her play Wonderful to be Wicked has been produced more than 20 times in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, New Jersey and Florida. In July 2005 Fort Worth's Rose Marine Theatre staged her play A Modern Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most recently, The Radio Show: It’s a Wonderful Life was produced by Theatre Wesleyan on the Artisan Center Theater stage in Hurst.
Connie has directed more than 50 productions; locally she worked with Circle Theatre for more than a decade. Her directing credits at Theatre Wesleyan include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, The Menaechmus Twins, Anton in Show Business, Frogs: The Road to Hades, and Passage Through the Heart, as well as the original student-written plays Blues Man, Far From the Tree, A Night at the Theatre/Theater, and Ballerinas, Choose Your Weapons. This year she’ll direct The Woman in Black, a ghost tale for Theatre Wesleyan.
Connie is also the creator and producer of The Wesleyan Playmarket, a venue for the work of Wesleyan playwrights. In May, 2009 she directed a reading of the Playmarket 2009 winner, Certificate of Death at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York. She also directed a staged reading of the 2007 Playmarket winner The Body of Eva Peron at 37 ARTS in New York.
She has received multiple awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for both playwriting and directing as well as the Kennedy Center Bronze Medallion of Excellence for her work with student playwrights in the five-state Region 6 area. In 2008-2009, Connie served as a member of the selection panel for the Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Grant National Committee and regularly serves as the judge for the Tarrant County high school playwriting competition.
While on sabbatical during the Spring 2010 semester, she plans to spend much of that time traveling and writing. During her sabbatical in the spring semester of 2002, Connie traveled the country as the Kennedy Center's playwriting representative on the American College Theatre Festival's National Selection Team. Prior to her election to the Team, Connie served as the Playwriting Chair for the KCACTF five-state region wher she pioneered the Ten Minute Play Festival. Connie has been a UIL One Act Play Judge, the judge for the Live Theatre League's High School Playwriting competition, and the playwriting mentor for the Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park student playwrights. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Alpha Psi Omega and Kappa Delta Pi.