This list represents only those alumni who have submitted their information to us for display. If you are an alum and would like to be included, please fill out the Alumni Update Form here.. Name Degree Year Bio Cooley, Lynn MFA Theatre Management 2007 is working as the Accessibility Coordinator and the Teleservices Manager for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Branneman, Angela MFA Theatre Management 2006 is in her first year as Assistant Professor at Ithaca College in New York. She teaches in the B.S. in theater arts management curriculum. Fooksman, Diana MFA Theatre Management 2006 is the General Manager of the National Players at the Olney Theatre Center in the D.C. metropolitan area. Olsen, Katy MFA Theatre Management 2006 is the Advertising Manager for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Adkins, Thomas MFA Theatre Management 2005 is the Director of the MFA Program in Theatre Management at The University of Alabama. Recently he served as a producer on the off-off-Broadway production Dammit, Shakespeare! (written by fellow UA professor Seth Panitch) at Urban Stages in New York City. His professional career has also included serving as Company Manager for the Clarence Brown Theatre, the LORT D professional theatre-in-residence at the University of Tennessee; Production Stage Manager for university and professional theatres in the southeast; Box Office Manager; and spent a year in New York studying with producers and publicists for the Broadway community. At UA he directs the Graduate Program in Theatre Management, teaches theatre management on the undergraduate level, and serves as leader in the Marketing, Front of House, and Box Office efforts. Reed, Alicia Johnson MFA Theatre Management 2005 is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She has has worked as a Speech and Drama Instructor for the Birmingham City School System, the Los Angeles Unified School District, UAB Special Studies and Virginia Samford Theatre. She has worked as the Artistic Director and Drama Day Camp Coordinator for the Academy of the Fine Arts Inc., the University of Alabama at Birmingham Special Studies Summer Children’s Theatre, the Alys Stephens Center Performing Arts Camp and her own community theatre company, Make It Happen Theatre. She has been an Artist in Residence for the Los Angeles Watts Tower and cultural arts writer for both the Los Angeles Watts Times and the Birmingham Times. She has also served as a committee member for the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, been a docent for the Los Angeles African American Museum of Art, a publicist of L.A. Unity Player, and a participant of the Lincoln Center Aesthetic Education in the Arts Program in New York. In addition, she has had the privilege of working for Babyface Edmonds in his production company, Edmonds Management, and has been the casting assistant in the office of Robi Reed and Associates on such popular television series as Sister, Sister and Soul Food. Alicia has her MFA in Theatre Management and Arts Administration from the University of Alabama. Before taking on this position, she served as the Audience Development Manager at ASF. Currently she is an Arts Mentor at Alys Stephens Center and an Audience Development Consultant for both the Birmingham Summerfest Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Hughes, Amanda MFA Theatre Management 2004 is the Marketing Director for the Georgia Shakespeare Festival in Atlanta, GA. Rodriguez, Diany  BA Theatre 2004 recently finished playing Dora in the national tour of Dora the Explorer Live and is cCurrently rehearsing as Mimi in the Japanese tour of RENT. Valentine, Dr. Jacquie MFA Theatre Management 2004 is the Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Williams III, Cliff BA Theatre 2004 choreographed fights for four shows at the 2006 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. One, The Scene, is opening on Off-Broadway at Second Stage in February of 2007. He is currently back at the Actors Theatre choreographing Dracula before moving to DC at the beginning of October 2006. Williams, Stephen Tyrone BA Theatre 2004 is living in NYC and has enjoyed work with the TheatreWorks USA Equity Tour of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Jim) Spring 2005; Off-Broadway Musical Me and Caesar Lee (Chip & Swing); Off-Off Broadway Revival The Laramie Project (Greg Pierotti, etc); Off-Broadway The Blowin of Baile Gall (u/s title role); Off-Off Broadway Women of Manhattan (Duke); Roots of Rap Poetry (Featured); HS Production of Fame (Choreographer); Bahamian Independent Film Romeo and Jonny (Romeo); February 2007 A Raisin in the Sun (Walter Lee). Deckard, Corinne Gabrielson MFA Theatre Management 2003 is the Assistant Managing Director at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.  Lane, Marcus MFA Acting 2003 recently wed fellow UA alum Jennifer Nelson and currently serves as the Coordinator of Theatre CUNY-Kingborough. Ward, Sherry MFA Theatre Management 2003 is the Coordinator for the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival at Baylor University. Crocket, Will MFA Theatre Management 2002 is the Public Relations Director for the Baylor University College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to his career at Baylor, he served as the Director of Performing Arts Marketing with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Crook, Mary Fran Abell  MFA Stage Management (BA Dance 1996) 2002 is a mother of three and serves as Artistic Director of the Dixie Center for the Arts in Louisiana. She also freelances as a stage manager. Gibson, Jeff MFA Theatre Management 2001 is the Director of Theatre for the Department of Speech and Theatre at Middle Tennessee State University where he teaches arts administration and stage management. He also serves as the Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV. Lane, Jennifer Nelson MFA Stage Management 2001 recently finished the run of the Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza. She is newly married to fellow UA alum, Marcus Lane. Miller, Adam MFA Theatre Management 2001 is the Marketing Manager for Academic Outreach in UA's College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. Previously he worked at LSU as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Department of Theatre and Swine Palace productions until December 2004 and as the Campus Violence Project Coordinator at UA's Women's Resource Center January 2005 to August 2006. Thompson, Jeremy Allen MFA Theatre Management 2001 is the Director of Marketing for Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He is charged with establishing the college's first ever marketing department and integrating all marketing and communications activities across campus. Prior to MassArt, he worked for two seasons as Director of Audience Development at the American Repertory Theatre, Harvard University. He also worked as Director of Marketing & Public Relations at Stoneham Theatre, a mid-sized equity company just north of Boston, and as Director of Marketing & Development for the Department of Theatre at the University of Vermont. In addition to his full-time work, Jeremy has consults on marketing and communications for emerging non-profit arts organizations, including East Coast Artists, an equity company in residence at New York University under the leadership of Richard Schechner. He also serves on the board of StageSource, an arts service organization serving the New England theatre community. Davis, Keith BA Theatre 1997 received his MFA in 2000 from the Yale Drama School. Broadway credits: Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Festen w/Julianna Margulies and Jeremy Sisto. Television: Law & Order, Third Watch, Guiding Light, Law & Order:SVU. Film: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead with Sidney Lumet and Ethan Hawke, De Dominee (Netherlands), G, Mitchelville, The Arrangement. He is currently completing an MFA at New York University om film direction. Also recently, he has completed a short, Surface of Things which has screened in competition at Palm Springs International Film Festival (CA) and this Fall at Anthology Film Archives Series Newfilmmakers (NY) and the Harlem International Film Festival (NY). Crook, Paul B. MFA Acting 1996 is currently the Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing and Director of Recruiting at Louisiana Tech Univesity in Ruston, LA. At Tech,Paul teaches all acting and directing courses and directs for the University Theatre, while supervising all undergraduate and graduate directing projects. During the summers, he directs and occassionally acts for the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival, where he is directing Macbeth and Smoke on the Mountain this summer. Paul and his wife, Mary Fran (BA, '96; MFA, '02) are the proud parents of three children: George, CeCe, and Bryant Ford.