JAMIE PRICE
Jamie Price, a proud Texas native, has been living in New York City for the past several years. A proud McLennan Theatre alumnus (1999-2001), he graduated with a BA in Theatre from California State University, Sacramento in 2003. Professional theatre credits include Animum Reflectere (Manhattan Rep.), Whatever Man (Manhattan Theatre Club), Kiss Me, Kate! (National Tour), Cabaret (Virginia Musical Theatre), Big River (Virginia Musical Theatre), Show Boat (Machaydn Theatre), Swing (MacHaydn Theatre), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (The Fireside Theatre), The Music Man (The Fireside Theatre), Damn Yankees (The Fireside Theatre), The Pirates of Penzance (MacHaydn Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (The Fireside Theatre) and various others. TV/film appearances include Law and Order: SVU, Time Warner Cable commerical, Ebay commerical, Baby Mama (w/Tina Fey), and Revolutionary Road (directed by Sam Mendes). Jamie is represented by Meg Pantera, The Agency.

ZACH MOORE
McLennan Theatre alumnus Zachary Moore is Assistant Professor of Theatre Education at Manhattanville College in New York. He is currently finishing his doctoral research in New York University's Program in Educational Theatre, where his focus has been ethnographic theatre and theatre for social justice. While at NYU, he co-founded "Shakespeare to Go," a touring educational theatre company that presents workshops and adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in New York City schools. He is a founding director and curriculum director of Shakespeare at School, the professional company that has grown out of STG. Zach has directed over fifty productions both in New York and his home state of Texas, where he was an award winning high school theatre teacher and director. Since coming to New York, he has worked primarily with the Creative Arts Team focusing on creating original productions with young people. Recently, he taught with Anna Deavere Smith--helping freshman students at NYU to create an original performance project. Zach completed a BFA in Theatre at the University of Texas at Austin and an MA from New York University.

MEGAN HAMAKER
Alumna Megan Hamaker sang and danced her way through her two years at McLennan, then transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She graduated from Tisch in January of 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors in Theatre. Since graduation, she had performed widely in the city and in regional houses across the nation. Credits include The Music Man (Mrs. Squires), Frances Perkins/Mrs. Pugh in Annie, Featured Singer in A Fireside Christmas directed by Phil McKinley, Divorce Me, Darling! (Hannah), and Love According to Luc (Ensemble). She has also can be seen in numerous student and low budget film. Megan is moving to Los Angeles in 2008.

BRAD THREADGILL
McLennan Alumnus Bradley Threadgill played a pivotal role backstage in McLennan Theatre while a student here. He transferred to the University of Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in Theatre with emphasis on production and stage management. Brad is currently Theatre Shop Supervisor at the University of Oklahoma School of Drama.

RICHARD RAMSEY & SANTRY RUSH
As a freshman, Richie came to McLennan, where he met and became best friends with Santry Rush. Ramsey went on to earn a BA at the University of Houston. He appeared in The Alley Theatre's productions of Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, The Invention of Love, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Devil's Disciple, and Abigail and Anthony. He performed at Massachusetts' renowned Berkshire Theatre Festival in Moby Dick-Rehearsed, The Crucifer of Blood, and James and the Giant Peach. He formed Inky Pete Productions -Sagemont Church's Youth Drama Ministry. During this time, he authored or co-authored such one-act plays as "The Reign Cycle," "The Branches," "The Oath," and "The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress." Originally from Austin, Santry Rush moved to Waco in 1995 to study theatre. He met Richard Ramsey during production of McLennan Theatre's Biloxi Blues. After a two-year stint in Waco, he completed his education at the University of Houston. Along with his theatrical work, he also invested his time briefly in the guitar duo Two Blushing Pilgrims as a singer/songwriter. With Ramsey, he launched Aletheia Stage & Film Company in 2003. Ramsey and Rush, along with their wives, have garnered multiple film festival awards for their productions of Washington's Cross and The Oath of Desormeau.

HEATHER HUGGINS
MFA Candidate, Boris Shukin Theatre Institute, affiliated with the Evengy Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, Moscow, Russia

Alumna Heather Huggins, also a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, recently left Austin's Hyde Park Theatre Company to pursue a master's degree in theatre via Harvard's American Repertory Theatre through their partnership with the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre school. Of her training at McLennan, Heather writes, "McLennan introduced me to the concept of integrated performance and challenged me to see past my limitations. Ten years later, I am fortunate to be studying in the lineage of Vakhtangov, known for his work blending Stanislavski's naturalism with Meyerhold's theatricality."

MANDY NGUYEN
McLennan theatre alumna Mandy Nguyen earned a BFA in Theatre-Performance from TCU, after which she performed with numerous companies in North Texas, including Hip Pocket Theatre, Uptown Players and Theatre Three. Her credits include the regional premieres of The Wild Party (Lippa), The Who's Tommy and Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses. She currently lives and works in NYC, where she has been involved with the NYC International Fringe Festival, Manhattan Rep and Shakespeare at School, a non-profit educational theatre company.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus Mark Stonebarger, High School Teacher of the Year in his district, works with his Down’s Syndrome theatre students at the Texas Educational Theatre Association.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus TRAVIS POE
Theatre Director, Barber’s Hill High School, Southwestern Bell UIL Excellence Award, 2002
1989, 2005 - 3rd
2000, 2002 - 2nd
1996, 1999, 2003 - 1st
State finalist - 1986, 1991, 1998, 2001, 2004

McLennan Theatre Alumnus MICHAEL SIMPSON
Congratulations to Michael, 2005 graduate of Juilliard’s School of Drama.
Member SAG & Actors Equity
Headed to Bulgaria to film a major motion picture.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus MANDY JO CONNER
Theatre Director, Connally High School; costume designer and actress;
Mandy is a frequent guest artist on the McLennan stage.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus JAMISON DRISKILL
Member SAG & Actors Equity, working in Los Angeles;
Prince Edward in the Off-Broadway production of Edward III

McLennan Theatre Alumna LITA THOMAS
received her BFA in Stage Management from The Conservatory of Theatre
Arts at Webster University in May 2005 and is an Allen Lee Hughes Stage Management
Fellow at the Arena Stage in Washington. DC. She is currently working on the
premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play there. Upcoming projects at Arena
include the premiere of Cuttin' Up, The Rainmaker, and On the Verge.

JASON PRICE was recently awarded an M.A. with “Merit” in Drama Research from the University of Exeter, Great Britain.
His thesis, entitled “Agitprop in America: Examining the Role of Theatre in Promoting Communist Ideologies to Audiences during the Great Depression,” was singled out for the top honor of “Distinction” by the examining board.
He is currently working on his PhD at Exeter while residing in London.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus TY MAYBERRY
as HAMLET in the Alley Theatre's 2003 production.
Ty is a resident member of the Alley Theatre Company.
Photo by Joel Johnson/Courtesy of the Alley Theatre.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus CURTIS HOWARD
Subsitute jazz/musical theater teacher at Steps on Broadway.  Professional credits include “Action” in West Side Story, ”Liver Lips Louie” in Guys and Dolls, Seebee in South Pacific, dancer in Fireside Christmas (directed by Phil McKinley of The Boy from Oz). Curtis is on his fifth call back for the new Broadway show The Pirate Queen and recently continued his dance studies at Jacob's Pillow Jazz Program under dance legends Chet Walker and Milton Meyers. Curtis also performs contract work for Feld Entertainment (Disney on Ice, Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus) as a mask maker (skills learned in the McLennan costume shop); he also made masks for Fireside Theatre's Production of Beauty and the Beast.

McLennan Theatre Alumnus JODY WODRICH
Jody Wodrich began his study of design in McLennan Theatre and is currently Production Designer for Herbalife International, Inc. He designs as many as a dozen industrial shows per year. His design work takes him to Europe and the Far East on a regular basis. In his spare time, he designs murals for buildings in Los Angeles, where he resides.