Designer and Instructor of Theatre
Office: Dan Waggoner Annex, 2nd Floor
Office Phone: 817-531-4232
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: Dan Waggoner Annex, 2nd Floor
Office Phone: 817-531-4976
Cell phone: 817 313 099
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. 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 2008 marks Joe’s 31st 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 The Radio Show: It’s a Wonderful Life 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.
Along with being involved in the theatre community of the Metroplex, Professor Brown is also the principle faculty and coordinator of the GST 1111 courses for freshmen and the senior member of the Theatre Department’s faculty. He is 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.
Critics have reviewed her performances in the following terms: “beautiful sound!” and “vocal standout” (Charlotte Observer); “emotional power” (Opera News); “outstanding soprano...voice like a clear mountain stream . . . exquisite control” (Knoxville News-Sentinel); “delightful soprano with a rich, clear voice and considerable acting skills” (Amarillo Globe-News).
As an oratorio and concert soloist, Ms. Dubberly has performed such works as Messiah, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Mozart’s Requiem as well as the Missa brevis and Exsultate, jubilate, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in Bb, Bizet’s Messe solennelle de Sainte Cecile, and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Psalm 42. She has given numerous recitals and master classes throughout the United States as well as in Canada and South America. Recently, she and husband, Stephen Dubberly, presented a lecture-recital at the Music Teachers National Association national convention entitled Dangerous Liaisons: Singer-Pianist Partnerships. World premieres include the title role in Dan Welcher’s opera Della’s Gift, Juliana Hall’s song cycle Después de pasar in Montevideo, Uruguay, Stephen Dubberly’s KinderSongs at the University of Alberta and his Three Hymns for Voice, Oboe, and Piano at UNT, and a work by Allen Johnson for soprano and string quartet based on The Diary of Anne Frank for the Holocaust Conference at the University of Tennessee.
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 #100
Office Phone 817-531-5867
Email: eheebner@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: Sone Fine Arts Center
Office Phone: 817-531-7546
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 #101
Office Phone: 817-531-5866
Email: cwhittlambert@txwes.eduConnie Whitt-Lambert, Chair of the Theatre Department, is a Professor of Theatre & Director of Wesleyan's Playwriting Program. 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.
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 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 is also the creator and producer of The Wesleyan Playmarket, a venue for the work of Wesleyan playwrights. In May, 2007 she directed a staged reading of The Body of Eva Peron, the 2007 winner of The Wesleyan Playmarket competition at 37 ARTS in New York.
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. While on the road for eight weeks, she saw more than sixty university and college productions and met with students and faculty from all fifty states. Prior to her election to the Team, Connie served as the Playwriting Chair for the KCACTF five-state region where she pioneered the Ten Minute Play Festival and was presented the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence in 2001. 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.