Creative Management Team
Mike Mazur – Vice President of Plano Community Affairs
Mike is thrilled to be a part of the NTPA family, having worked as a theatrical director, writer, choreographer and educator since earning his Bachelor’s in English, Speech and Drama Education from Bowling Green State University in his home state of Ohio. Since graduating, Mike has taught theatre at the High School, Community College and University level and earned his Master’s in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
He has directed over 60 shows in New York, New Jersey, Ohio and California. Among his favorites are Rent, Hair, Oklahoma!, The King and I, and Children of Eden. As a writer, his youth theatre piece THE SIXTH DAY has been performed in NYC three times, and he was commissioned to create “Simple Joys,” a revue of the work of Stephen Schwartz at the Cassidy Theatre in Ohio. As a youth, he was a member of The Singing Angels Performing Chorus, an internationally touring show choir based out of Cleveland, Ohio.
After graduating from NYU, Mike became their Artistic Director. Under his direction, the group toured Hollywood, London, Warsaw, and Paris; released two recordings; performed with Nancy Sinatra and Roberta Flack; and was invited to a Command Performance at The Pentagon. He then became a professor of Musical Theatre at California State University, Chico, where in addition to teaching and directing shows, he led the “Off-Broadways” Touring Ensemble in performances in New York and San Francisco.
These experiences have led Mike to lecture on the role of theatre in society at both The Sondheim Symposium in New Jersey (where he met Stephen Sondheim) and the International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece. He shares his experiences with the talented youth of North Texas and empowers them to use the performing arts as a tool to build the self-confidence needed to succeed in any career path they choose.
Cibby Bowden – Managing Director, NTPA – Fairview
Cibby Bowden joined the NTPA team in 2017 to serve as Director and Managing Director of NTPA – Fairview. Cibby has worked in the industry as a director and actress for over 35 years. She previously worked as Theatre Production Manager, Resident Director and Acting Instructor at Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center and as Theatre Director at Faith West Academy both in Katy, TX.
In January of 2025, Cibby was awarded the nationally acclaimed Freddie G Fellowship award. This is an esteemed award given to only 5 selected Theatre Educators a year in the nation.
Favorite director credits include; Matilda, Beetlejuice, Little Women, Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, Willy Wonka, Beauty and the Beast, Honk!, Legally Blonde, High School Musical 1 and 2, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek and Xanadu.
Along with appearing in NTPA’s annual production of Scrooge as Mrs Cratchit, she has also appeared in many of KVPAC’s Encore Players productions including Joanne in Sondheim’s Company, Mistress Paige in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Betty Meeks in The Foreigner, Mrs. Trotsky in All in the Timing and Effy in The Spitfire Grill.
Kerry Murdock – Managing Director, NTPA – Frisco
Kerry Murdock has a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from East Central University (OK) with a minor in Musical Theatre and an M.Ed. in Multicultural Literature from Xavier University (OH). Kerry has spent the last 25 years working with children as a teacher, choir director, storyteller, director, costume director, and piano teacher. She has a passion for instilling a love of reading in young students and enjoys implementing her acting skills to bring books and stories to life. Kerry has enjoyed participating in theatre in many different roles across six states. Her favorite memories are sharing the stage with her three children in several productions.
Bethany Bourland – Artistic Director, Collegiate Pursuits
bbourland@ntpa.org
Bethany Bourland is a theatre educator and director with over a decade of experience training young performers. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama (Acting Emphasis) from the University of Oklahoma and has built her career around developing students’ acting technique, audition skills, and storytelling craft. Since 2021, Bethany has served as Artistic Director of NTPA Collegiate Pursuits, guiding high school students who plan to pursue performing arts degrees in college. In this role, she mentors performers through rigorous pre-professional training, helping them build strong foundations in acting and audition preparation. Her directing credits include The Prom, Hadestown, The Great Comet of 1812, Damn Yankees, County Fair, The Wild Party, Anything Goes, Parade, Cabaret, The SpongeBob Musical, Oklahoma, Tuck Everlasting, and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. “Thank you, Connor, for supporting me, this art form, and the people who make it. And to Eloise—thank you for reminding me daily what joy, play, and unapologetic creativity look like. I love you both endlessly.
Kameron Knott, Collegiate Pursuits Program Director
Kameron Knott has been a key member of the Collegiate Pursuits production team since its founding. A Louisiana and Texas native, Kameron holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting with a Dance minor from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Directing at the University of Idaho. Beyond his work with NTPA, Kameron has built a diverse professional résumé with organizations such as the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, EarthX Film Festival, and the Actor Factory. Some of his favorite NTPA projects have included The Prom, Hadestown, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Damn Yankees, Junior/Senior Showcase, The Wild Party, The Drowsy Chaperone, County Fair, Anything Goes, Peter and the Starcatcher, Bonnie & Clyde, Something Rotten, Cabaret, and Tuck Everlasting. In addition to directing and choreographing, Kameron leads the educational side of the Collegiate Pursuits program, overseeing workshops, classes, and private lessons designed to prepare students in grades 10–12 for pursuing a performing arts degree in college. Kameron is grateful to his family and friends for their unwavering love and support, and to his students for their dedication and hard work. Boomer Sooner, Geaux Tigers and enjoy the show!
Riley Madlock, NTPA Academy Head of School
Gregory McKnight – Program Director, Film Studios
Gregory has been working in film and video production for over 20 years and is a seasoned theater technician, having worked in multiple venues across DFW over the past two decades. He currently serves as the Senior Technical Director at NTPA where he leads all technical theatre programs across NTPA and teaches technical theatre classes in The Conservatory at NTPA Academy.
Since joining the NTPA team in 2017, Greg has served as a director and music director for many shows and has written several original scripts that have premiered on NTPA stages including fan-favorites “The Adventure of BetaKid” and “The Adventure of GammaKid.” He also spearheaded the NTPA Film Studios program providing a new opportunity for students to learn and experience film production. Greg has been a musician since the age of 7 and has played piano professionally for over a decade.
Anne Underwood – Program Director, NTPA – Dallas
Anne Underwood is a native Dallasite whose family has a 100 year history of dedication to the growth and success of the city. She began working professionally in film, television, theatre and radio as a child in North Texas and received her BFA with an emphasis in acting from the school of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. She also studied classical theatre at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England, with a focus on Shakespeare. Anne has worked professionally in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years, on stage and in film, while occasionally working in New York and abroad. As an educator, Anne has taught acting and voice in private, public, charter schools, on film sets and in coaching sessions. In 2020, Anne left California and moved back to Dallas with her family. She has three children who attend Dallas area schools, two of which are very active with NTPA. Anne has a passion for bringing theatre and the arts to all children, and admires the mission of NTPA with its focus on character and community. She is delighted to join the NTPA family and dedicated to making the Dallas location a safe space for creativity and exploration for thousands of Dallas’ youth.
Jamie Lynn Moreland – Program Director, NTPA Southlake
Jamie Lynn Moreland is a creative professional with over 15 years of experience in the performing arts and digital media industries.
After earning her degree from NYU, Jamie Lynn served as Creative Director for a Broadway production company and advertising agency where she led marketing, graphic design, and web development efforts for a range of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows (including 13, Godspell, Macbe
A lifelong lover of the stage, Jamie Lynn grew up performing in productions at Casa Mañana, Bass Hall, Artisan Center Theater, and more. Today, she is a proud stage mom to twin girls who also have the acting bug and love performing at NTPA!
Elena Maldonado-Dunn – Program Director, NTPA Plano
Elena Maldonado-Dunn has been involved in theatre since the age of six. They have a degree in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Directing from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, and directed two off-Broadway premiers before moving to Texas. Elena is passionate about Shakespeare, stage combat, and transforming the lives of youth through theatre and the arts. Favorite shows include Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Hadestown. Elena is eternally grateful to the entire NTPA family, as well as their fantastic girlfriend, their parents, and their three furry sons, Oliver, Teddy, and Duck, for their everlasting support.
Nick Mann – Creative Director, NTPA Repertory
Nick grew up in the towns of Bowie, TX and Carlsbad, NM. Even as a child, Nick was always interested in drama. He recalls the very first musical he created with stuffed animals and a tape recorder when he was in the 4th Grade! Nick graduated from the University of North Texas earning a B.A. in Theatre Performance and Education. His advanced training includes Song Interpretation with Tony Award-Winning Actress Betty Buckley, Meisner Acting Technique with Terry Martin and Improv and Sketch Comedy at The Second City Training Center.
Nick is also a Stand-Up Comedian and playwright. His play, Baby of Mine, was a semifinalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Nick’s special talent is that he can name all the winners of every Academy Award in the Picture and Acting category (Hopefully that means he will win one)!
Resident Directors
Preston Page – Artistic Director, NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra & Senior Music Director, North Texas Performing Arts
Preston Page is voice teacher, director, music director, accompanist, and arts administrator based in Dallas, Texas. He currently serves as the Senior Music Director for North Texas Performing Arts, having joined the organization in 2022 as Director of Education. In addition, he leads the NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra as Artistic Director and holds the position of Resident Collegiate Pursuits Voice Teacher. After studying Musical Theatre at Collin College and with noted industry professionals throughout North Texas, he completed his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas with a focus in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources. He has over a decade of experience working with youth theatres and school districts across North Texas, teaching a range of workshops, master classes, private voice and acting lessons, as well as leading teams of other teaching artists. He previously led the successful expansion of Arise Acting Studio as General Manager while interning at Lyric Stage and developing the musical curricula for several Montessori schools in the area. Preston is also an actor, singer, and director who has worked with many of the largest professional and regional theatres across North Texas, developing both new works and performing many standards in the musical theatre canon.
Paige Price, Senior Resident Director/Director of Special Programs
Zayde Vetter – Senior Resident Director
Zayde is a recent graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, receiving her B.A. in Theatre with minors in Communication and Psychology. Her acting resume includes Pugsley in The Adams Family, Florence in Souvenir, a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, and Jaquinetta in Love’s Labors Lost. During a study abroad program at Oxford, her passions grew to include directing, playwriting, and dramaturgy. Some of her previous directorial productions include The Glass Menagerie, Ugly Lies the Bone, and Into Evil: a Musical Revue, as well as debuting at NTPA as Assistant Director for Frozen Kids.
Zayde believes that theatre has the power to inspire and foster growth. She is extremely excited to join the team at NTPA and hopes to encourage the love of theatre in the next generation of thespians.
Samantha Reser – Senior Resident Director
Samantha Reser joined the NTPA family in 2023. She received her BFA in Theatre for Young Audiences with a minor in Directing from Oklahoma City University, and recently completed her Masters degree in Theatre for Young Audiences at the University of Central Florida. Using experience as a teacher, director, actor, and musician, Samantha Reser’s mission is to create theatre that is accessible for youth regardless of financial status, ability, or previous theatre experience. She strives to teach empathy for others by using fundamental acting techniques and creative play. She believes achieving this goal will create a kinder, more sympathetic world, one theatrical experience at a time. Favorite directing credits at NTPA include Willy Wonka Jr, High School Musical 2 Jr, Willy Wonka KIDS, and The Wizard of Oz! She has also had the pleasure of music directing shows such as Fiddler on the Roof Jr, The Sound of Music Youth Edition, Singing in the Rain, Miss Nelson is Missing, Freaky Friday, and Matilda Jr.
Linda McAdams, Resident Director
Linda McAdams has a B.A. in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s degree in education from UNT. She has been involved with NTPA for over 18 years. She has studied dance, musical theatre, voice and piano. She performed onstage as a dancer in High School and again as an adult taking tap classes. Growing up in Dallas, she attended the Dallas Summer Musicals for many years and dreamed of dancing in a musical. Being a first-grade teacher in PlanoISD was one of her favorite experiences. She has served on the executive board for several PTAs, chairperson for a cub scout pack in Plano, Service Unit Cookie Coordinator for Girl Scouts and on the NTPA Dallas board. She is currently the Volunteer Coordinator for NTPA and enjoys helping volunteers since she started out as one herself. Linda has assisted in many shows as the Show Manager, Choreographer and Assistant Director. She recently directed Descendants, Into the Woods Jr. and The Little Mermaid Jr. all out of NTPA Frisco. She would like to thank her family for their love and support. Having seen firsthand the incredible growth in her own children through theatre, she loves working with the parents and children at NTPA and being a part of their dreams.
Shannon Hauser – Resident Director
Shannon received her Bachelor of Science in Dance Education from Bowling Green State University where she focused on the biomechanics and kinesiology of dance. She also minored in theater with an emphasis on Shakespeare and directing was an inaugural member of Beautiful Kids Independent Shakespeare company. She directed Waiting and The Interview during her time at BGSU and choreographed close to 40 performances between the school of theater and school of dance.
After graduation, Shannon moved to Lake Tahoe where her the opportunity to expand a local Royal Academy of Ballet school into the competitive dance world presented itself. Shannon was the competitive director of Tahoe Dance School for 10 years. Former students have gone on to dance with Alvin Ailey, Sean Curran and Doug Elkins. She partnered with Tahoe Theater Workshop and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival where she got to continue her love of Shakespeare.
She married her husband, Marty, in 2004 and has two sons and three cats. Shannon took a teaching hiatus to stay home with her boys while they were young but is excited to return to the performing arts and share her passion with the next generation.
Peyton Churchwell – Resident Director
Peyton received his Bachelors of Science in Secondary Education for English from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and he is currently getting his Masters of Arts in Theater at Texas A&M University at Commerce. He has trained in opera and acting for 7 years, and was taught different techniques of dance from ULM.
He has performed in many productions of both college and community theater in the Northeast Louisiana area: Hugo Peabody in Bye Bye, Birdie, Ubaldo Piangi in Phantom of the Opera, and George Gibbs in Our Town. Peyton has directed a production of How the Grinch Stole Christmas during his time as a drama teacher at Neville Junior High School in Monroe, Louisiana, and assisted in directing a production of Disaster! at the Strauss Little Theater. Peyton made his NTPA debut playing Lt. Joseph Cable in the community theater production of South Pacific.
Peyton is so excited to continue his growth as a director, teacher, and performer by working with NTPA as a director, and he hopes to inspire and instill the love of theater in the arts in the students and actors he gets to work with.
Austin Keefer – Resident Director
Austin Keefer is a proud NTPA alumni who performed in numerous productions back in high school and is now working as Resident Director. He has a bachelor’s degree in Literature with a Creative Writing concentration from UT Dallas and a General Studies degree from Collin College, and enjoys writing and filmmaking in his spare time. He’s acted in several NTPA community shows, his favorites being “Sound of Music”, “South Pacific”, and “Scrooge!”.
Lyz Miller, Resident Director
Lyz Miller is originally from Connecticut, where she grew up with parents who had deep roots in education and theater. She inherited their love for both at a young age and has since passed that passion on to her two boys while living in Frisco. Lyz earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Mathematics and Acting before going on to receive a master’s degree from University of Florida. A certified Mathematics teacher, Lyz currently serves as the Assistant Head of School for NTPA Academy.
Brenna Petersen, Resident Director
She is a recent graduate of Texas Woman’s University and pursued her major in Theatre and minor in Music Performance. In the past, she has appeared in over 20 NTPA productions as an actor, having started as a student over a decade ago, and is now a Resident Director! A few favorite projects include SIX: Teen Edition (NTPA Southlake), The Music Man (NTPA Community), and, of course, Scrooge: The Musical! (NTPA Community). She is extremely grateful to the cast and crew who made this show possible, especially Mike, Sean, Peggy, Holly, and Debbi!
Brycen Bohl, Resident Director
Brycen Bohl attended Waldorf University for a degree in Musical Theatre, including 2 years of experience at NTPA as student, and he’s super excited to be back as a director! Some of Brycen’s previous acting credits include The Music Man as Harold Hill, Mary Poppins as Bert, and South Pacific as Lt. Cable. His directing credits include Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Waldorf Theatre’s Musical Theatre Showcase, and The Addams Family Musical. He would like to thank his family, who have been with him every step of the way, along with his friends for being there for him whenever he needed it, and lastly all of his teachers and directors for helping him to become the person is today. With their help, he can help the artisans of this generation reach their full potential.
Melissa Smith – Resident Director
Melissa has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Houston and an M. Ed. in Curriculum and Design with an emphasis on leadership from Concordia University Portland. Additionally, she holds a Performing Arts Industry Certificate from NYU. Melissa has spent over 15 years working with children as a teacher, guide, and director. She enjoys working as a teacher for NTPA’s after school classes and camps. Additionally, Melissa has served as an Assistant Director, Show Manager, and Director for numerous shows and loves watching the growth and development of each student that takes the stage. She has a passion for combining education and theatre to develop individuals both on and off the stage. Melissa has enjoyed participating in theatre in many different ways throughout her life. Some of her favorite directing credits include: Sound of Music YE, Moana Jr, Tinker Bell, The Big Bad Musical, and Jungle Book Kids. She would like to thank her family for their continued support.
Adjunct Directors
Lindsey Lederer – Adjunct Director
Lindsey Lederer joined the NTPA creative team in 2011 as a summer camp teacher, but that was not her first exposure to North Texas Performing Arts. She started with the organization, taking the stage, as a student and attributes her success thus far to the training she received at NTPA. She has served as a Summer Intern, a Director, an assistant in the Development Office, NTPA-Frisco’s Managing Director, NTPA-Dallas’ Managing Director, and VP of Youth Theatre Operations. After igniting her passion for the theatre arts, Lindsey graduated from the NTPA program and went on to complete her Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theater and minor in psychology from Ouachita Baptist University. She has performed with major entertainment corporations, such as Walt Disney World and Six Flags over Texas. Her favorite NTPA directorial credits include “Beauty and the Beast Jr.,” “Legally Blonde Jr.,” “Elf Jr.,” “High School Musical Jr.” and “Junie B Jones.” Lindsey strives to instill a great passion for the arts in all of her students and to make a difference in the lives of youth through the artistic process. She wants to thank her NTPA students, families, and peers for making her job incredibly rewarding!
Valerie Sauter, Adjunct Music Director
Lizzie Shelby, Adjunct Music Director
Lizzie graduated from Ouachita baptist university with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance where she performed in multiple operas. She then went on to do an opera program in Italy where she sang solos, duets and group numbers with people from all over the world. She worked at a Yamaha music school and currently teaches private voice at Dowell middle school in McKinney. She enjoys teaching all styles of music to all ages!
Some past music directing credits include Legally Blonde and Into the woods with NTPA Frisco, Disaster! with NTPA Dallas and Sound of Music with NTPA Fairview.
Hunter Mackenzie Brown – Adjunct Director
Hunter Mackenzie Brown is thrilled to be a part of NTPA. He recently moved to Dallas from New York City where he was able to perform in the cabaret circuit, be apart of new works, and learn from great teachers and performers. His favorite credits include Jesus in Godspell, Willard in Footloose, and Puck in a Midsummer Nights Dream. He is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University where he holds is BFA in Musical Theatre.
Bonnie Grugle – Adjunct Choreographer
Bonnie is a trained performer with over 30 full scale productions as a dancer, singer, and actor. She has appeared at the Dallas Make A Wish Foundation, The Hip Hop Dance Fest, Carnegie Hall, and local community events. She studied dance locally with Mary Six Rupert, Melva Smith, and Paula Morelan.
Her dance studies primarily focused on ballet, tap, and jazz with an emphasis in musical theater. Supplemental training includes hip hop and burlesque. She is a classically trained soprano and has performed with many school and church choirs. Her unique understanding of how music, story, and movement fit together help make her a versatile director.
Kaylee Killingsworth – Adjunct Director
Kaylee Killingsworth is a multi-faceted theatre artist, and has over a decade of working in youth theatre across DFW. She is currently teaching voice, acting and audition skills private lessons at NTPA. Recently, she taught multiple courses at NTPA Academy, and was a Core Counselor for hybrid school students there. She also is certified in Texas to teach Theatre and Speech, where she did so at Plano Independent School District. Kaylee studied and trained musical theatre at Collin College, and finished her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theatre Studies at the University of Texas in Arlington, training in dramaturgy, playwriting, technical theatre and directing. Kaylee uses her performance skills weekly as a Medical Clown with The Laughter League at Cook Children’s Hospital, and booking comedy-magic shows at private events, the Howdy and Knock-Knock show, with her clown partner. She’s performed at many DFW theaters including Jubilee Theatre, Firehouse Theatre and Dallas Theatre Center. Outside of DFW she has performed at the Women’s Theatre Festival in North Carolina. As a playwright and musical librettist, she has seen her own writing performed locally, and in audio-theatre formats.
Hannah Anderson – Adjunct Director
Hannah graduated from Ouachita Baptist University with a degree in Musical Theater, and currently works as a director for the North Texas Performing Arts, particularly but not exclusively with the Starcatchers program. She has been trained in the Bel Canto school of classical singing for eleven years, and has had the honor of performing such roles as Zita in Gianni Schicchi and Aunt March in Little Women, as well as studying theater at Liverpool Hope University and training with the Opera in Italy program in Urbino. After directing the premiere production of Star Miz: a Star Wars parody of musicals in 2019, she fell in love with the process of putting together the puzzle pieces of a production, having a vision and working with every department to present that vision onstage. Since that time, she has directed multiple productions, including one-act plays, cabarets, and full-length musicals. When she isn’t on or backstage, she enjoys reading fantasy and science fiction novels, drawing, and writing fanfiction and original fiction with her boyfriend.
Sid Polezcek – Adjunct Director
Sid Polezcek is a performer, director and educator based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Sid is originally from south Louisiana and attended Northwestern State University of Louisiana for two years before transferring to The University of Texas at Arlington where he received his BFA in Theatre. Some of his most notable performance credits include Hanschen in Spring Awakening, Steward in Into the Woods, and Faux Rosencrantz/Tragedian in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Sid’s notable directing credits include Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World in UTA’s 2020 virtual season, the world premiere of Dig by Natalie Gaupp also at UTA, Shrek the Musical by David Lindsay-Abaire, and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Sid currently serves as the Director of Theatre for the Turner Theatre Company at R. L. Turner High School. Sid is thrilled for the privilege of his continued participation in the development of the next generation of artists at NTPA.
Kelemen Szabo – Adjunct Music Director
An alumnus of NTPA, Kel was thrilled to return and join the creative staff in 2022! He has music directed several NTPA productions including Jekyll & Hyde, High School Musical 2 Jr., A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and Bye Bye Birdie. He has also taught private voice lessons and has served as a sound specialist in the tech crew of the above productions.
Kelemen graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Music in Choral Music Education, having completed his clinical teaching in Frisco ISD. He is the Choir Director at Griffin Middle School in Frisco ISD, the Director of Music at Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church, and a member of the Vocal Majority. He is also a professional multi-instrumentalist, having played for a number of churches, musical theatre productions, and local bands on various instruments.
Sasha Garcia – Associate Adjunct Music Director
Elizabeth Daffin, Adjunct Director
Elizabeth Daffin holds an Associate of Arts in Theater from Tarrant County College and a BBA in Marketing from Texas State University. While attending college, she “paid her dues” at the Granbury Opera House in their summer stock productions and performed as a magician’s assistant, saloon girl, country singer, ghostly bride, and a 1970s disco diva at the different Six Flags parks in Texas. She moved to the Big Apple after graduating and began working for Forbes magazine as a reporter. She also joined the St. Bart’s Players, a community theater troupe in Manhattan, which is a group of professionals that do theatre in the evenings and weekends. This provided an opportunity for her to learn all aspects of theatrical magic by performing, choreographing, working backstage, running front of house, and finally producing numerous productions. It was an amazing way to maintain her love for theatre while working a corporate job. Past favorite roles: Adelaide (Guys & Dolls), Dainty June (Gypsy), Ginger Rogers (The Melody Lingers On), Maisie (The Boyfriend), and Calamity Jane (Miss Lillie’s Revue – Six Flags Astroworld). Thank you to Jeremy and my family for fully supporting me in all my crazy antics!
Lynley Glickler, Adjunct Director
Lynley Glickler is an NTPA alumni, having performed since she was eight – her first role was Abu the Monkey in Aladdin! She is a graduate of the University of Dallas, with a BA in Drama. Her acting credits include Ensemble in Exit Daphne, Pursued by a God (upcoming), Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Death in Orphee, and Susan in Company. She’s also directed the Exploring Theatre Summer Camps at NTPA since 2021. Her directing credits include Aladdin Jr, Monstrous Birth, and Romeo and Juliet.
Niquel Barnett, Adjunct Director
Niquel Barnett is a proud graduate of the University of North Texas with a degree in Theatre Performance, Niquel Barnett is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe, Rent Free, and has spent the last 3 years performing with them throughout Texas and Oklahoma. In addition to performing, Niquel has a passion for teaching and has led numerous theatre camps at North Texas Performing Arts. Recently, Niquel Barnett has enjoyed directing The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and assistant directing The Little Mermaid and Ride the Cyclone. She is grateful for the opportunity to bring stories to life and for the support of Cat Nobile, Addison Jaynes, and the incredible artistic community here at NTPA.
Rachael Berros, Adjunct Director
Rachael Berros proudly brings her expertise from the classroom to the stage. She is currently a sixth grade teacher in Richardson ISD, where she teaches reading, language arts, and social studies. Rachael’s passion for education infuses her directing style with creativity and imagination. With memorable performances as Golde in “Fiddler on the Roof”, Fraulein Schneider in “Cabaret” and Pennywise in “Urinetown,” Rachael seamlessly transitions from the spotlight to behind the scenes.
Corynne Anderson, Adjunct Director
Corynne is a proud graduate of Texas Tech University with a degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Media Industries. Her credits include a director for The Lightning Thief and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with NTPA and As You Like It with Texas Tech University. Corynne has worked in various roles across theatre production, including director, assistant director, and assistant lighting designer. She would like to thank her family and friends for all the support and love they have given her over the years.
Tyler Overton, Adjunct Director
Tyler Overton graduated in 2018 with a degree in Vocal Music Education and in 2021 with a Masters in Administration: Curriculum and Supervision from the University of Oklahoma. He currently teaches elementary music at Rose Haggar Elementary in Plano ISD. This year he was selected as the campus Teacher of the Year and was a finalist for the Plano ISD teacher of the year winning the Marilyn Brooks excellence in Teaching award. Music and theater have been his passion since performing in Seussical in 6th grade and he loves getting to share his love of the fine arts with students. It is a privilege and honor to help children find their voice and passion through teaching and the arts.
Ken Simmons, Adjunct Director
Seigen Walker, Adjunct Director
Seigen Walker has been directing for the last 9 years, and acting for the last 15. He has been everything from a board member to a patron with everything in between. His goal is to inspire the next generation of theatre youth to grow and excel at theatre. He is passionate and proud to share the stage with his family and well, and is thrilled to share each step of the journey with his amazing wife Crystal and his beautiful kids!