Meet Your Teachers

Barbara Fulton – Head Dressings Anyone??

Imaginative! Creative! Resourceful! These adjectives describe Barbara's resolve when it comes to implementing an idea, look, or impression. Highly inventive her entire life, she began as costumer for summer neighborhood garage theater productions. Later she studied clothing design at Oklahoma State University where pattern drafting, design, and construction of a period ball gown was modeled throughout Oklahoma during the Centennial.

For several years she costumed and performed with 'The Not Ready For Primetime Players', a secular specific seasonal theatrical group. Barbara also participated many years in the Society for Creative Anachronism where she transformed herself into the 1400's Lady Phoebe Temperence de Hotham.

More recently you might find Barbara lending her creative talents in the costume workroom of the Town & Gown Theater tailoring, making alterations, perhaps mending a mishap, painting tatoos on someone, or just doing what needs done.

Camie Hayes – Theatre Etiquette 101 Camie Hayes has over 35 years of experience in radio, theatre, film, and other live events as a performer, technical staff member, writer and director. Camie currently co-hosts the Blue Dome Arts Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and recently finished a stint as the Sunday morning news anchor & reporter at KRMG radio (FM 102.3). Camie owns an independent stage management business, working in over 60 theatre shows, including OCTAFest 2014. Her previous work includes working on the 1984 L.A. Summer Olympics Opening & Closing Ceremonies, and also has had one of her short plays done at Heller Shorts in 2013. Camie is currently working with AMTC to be a 2016 Winter Performer as a commercial model and actress.

Lucy Hicks – Preparing a Monologue for Auditions

Lucinda Hicks is a teaching artist who resides in Ardmore, Oklahoma. After graduation from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, she spent six years traveling across Oklahoma working as a teaching artist and artist in residence. Lucinda has directed Children’s and Teen theatre for over eight years and through these endeavors has staged over 25 productions. Directing plays on the OSSAA competitive circuit she has helped students earn titles on the Regional and State level.

Hicks is a recent graduate of the Oklahoma Art Council’s New Emerging Arts Leader Mentor Program, a proud member of the National Forensics League and Association of Teaching Artists. Lucinda was also accepted into the Oklahoma Art’s Council’s Leadership Arts class of 2015. Lucinda serves on the board of directors for Ardmore Little Theatre and Noel Productions, Inc. In 2014, Lucinda was recognized by The United Way and received a community hero award for her community education outreach work. Currently, Lucinda works as the Director of Education Outreach for Ardmore Little Theatre. Through ALT’s efforts and partnerships with six different non-profits organizations and schools, over 1,000 community youth are provided with free performance arts education.

Karma McDonald–Makeup

Karma McDonald is a Master Instructor of Makeup and Esthetics at Clary Sage College in Tulsa Oklahoma. With over 15 years of experience in the makeup field, you can find her work in publications, local theaters, and on the movie screen.

Although Karma is very fluent with beauty makeup, her forte is special effects and theater. She specializes in prosthetic production and application which landed her as a preliminary contestant for the reality show FACE OFF.

Karma has worked with several producers on numerous music videos, motion pictures, and even in Las Vegas on the Cirque Du Soleil production of MYSTERE.

Karma welcomes anyone who wants to learn the art form of makeup without hesitation

Dr. Susan Proctor -- Commedia dellárte the characters, stories, and movement.

Susan Proctor, Ph. D. in Theatre Theory-- Interdisciplinary English, Theatre, and Sociology, from Oklahoma University M. F. A. in Directing from The Catholic University of America
B. A. in Liberal Arts from SUNY Brockport with an emphasis in theatre

Dr. Proctor has been directing plays since 1974 in professional, academic, and community theatres. She worked as a director, dramaturgy assistant, production assistant, wardrobe assistant, and stage manager at Arena Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, Shakespeare Summer Festival, and Olney Theatre in the Washington, D. C. area from 1974-1984. She says her time at Arena was like a second MFA because of her chance to work with actors including Ron Pearlman, F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Walken, Kevin Kline, Katherine Turner, Alma Cuervo, and Nedra Dixon. She also worked with directors Liviu Ciulei, Zelda Fichandler, Doug Wager, Elizabeth Swados, and Steven Robman among others.

In 1984 she moved to Oklahoma and earned her Ph. D. She was a first season performer and later director with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park (OSP), directed at Red Carpet Theatre, Theatre Norman, Duncan Little Theatre, and others as an artist in residence, Oklahoma Theatre Company, Corner Stage, Stone Soup, and several community theatres. She has been teaching in University for many, many years. As an actor she works mainly in Shakespeare and Comedia. Her fields of interest include directing, dramaturgy, classical theatre, and working with students. She has a text book available through Linus Publications in Ronkonkoma, NY that is a beginning Dramaturgy and is called Is There a Dramaturg in the House? (2013).

Julie Tattershall– Improv

Julie Tattershall was the Artistic Director of the former Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has directed over 80 plays, created Laughing Matter Improv troupe, created original play program and teaches theatre programs for state and local Arts and Humanities Councils.

Sandra Williams – Using Nonverbal Communication Cues for Casting, Character and Clarity.

Sandra Dutreau Perky Williams graduated from Oklahoma State University in Theatre, received an MA in Communication Behavior from Oklahoma University, and a doctorate in Theatre Communication from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. Theatre Communication is the application of communication research to the theatre process. She has directed over 70 productions and has been a Theatre Artist in Residence with the Oklahoma Arts Council since 1985. She has served as a board members and President of OCTA.

Erick Wolfe—Stage Combat

Erick Wolfe has been training and directing actors and performers for over 15 years. Working in New York, London, and Wales, his credits include Opera, Ballet, Theatre, Commercials, Television, and Film. Erick is a Certified Teacher with the British Academy of Stage Combat and the Academy of Performance Combat. In addition to his fight credits, Erick is also the national representative with the Association of Theatrical Movement Educators. Erick moved to New Orleans after finishing work on an international documentary on the subject of Bartitsu, the martial art of Sherlock Holmes. Erick currently teaches at Dillard University and runs the Wolfe Action Academy, a school for training performers for film and theatre in New Orleans.

Cody Whittenburg & Amber Dickinson – How to Slay Your Musical Theatre Audition

Cody Whittenburg is a native of Durant, OK, and studied with vocal music programs prior to moving to Stillwater to pursue a doctoral program at Oklahoma State University. His passions for vocal and piano performance expanded into the world of theater with an emphasis on musical theater. Recent musical productions include; Little Shop of Horrors; Clue: The Musical; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Once Upon A Mattress; Radio Gals; and Legally Blonde: The Musical. Currently, he is looking forward to Seussical The Musical in June 2015.
Amber Dickinson has been involved in over 20 theater productions, and has worked professionally in both film and television. Her favorite musical theater roles have been Velma Kelly in Chicago, and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. When not appearing onstage Amber also enjoys choreographing - her latest project was Legally Blonde: The Musical, last summer, at the Stillwater's Town & Gown Theatre. She is looking forward to directing Visiting Mr. Green in April 2015.