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Sue Gerrells
Executive Director
Sue Ellen Gerrells brings decades of experience to her position as ACT Executive Director. After serving as Business Manager for Theatre USA (USA-Mobile) and Executive Assistant to senior administrators at UCSD (CA), she traveled to Yokosuka, Japan working as PREVENT Program Manager and instructor for University of Maryland University College. For over thirty years, Sue Ellen has been actively involved as an actor/director in community, secondary, and college/university theater programs in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
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Katie Pearson
President
Raised in Pennsylvania, Katie Pearson has called Montgomery “home” for the past twenty-five years. During her time here she has been involved with community and university theatres. Katie has appeared in numerous productions and has designed and constructed costumes for several productions as well. She currently holds the position of Theatre Coordinator for Auburn Montgomery’s, Theatre AUM.
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Neil David Seibel
Vice-President
Neil David Seibel recently joined the theatre faculty at Auburn Montgomery. As a member of Actors Equity his credits include Jonathon Larson’s JP Morgan Saves the Nation (Off-Broadway), the TV musical Passages: Lewis and Clark, contracts with the Denver Center, Arvada Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and six seasons with Theatre Aspen. He continues to serve as a Co-Director of ALATetc: A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING, experimental theater company in New York City.
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Chris Rich
Immediate Past President
Chris Rich is Technical Director, Designer for Troy University. His design work has received national recognition in lighting and sound and regional recognition for scene design from KCACTF. Within the Southeastern Theatre Conference, Chris is fortunate to chair the Keynote Emerging Artist of Promise Award and work with the future of theatre. Chris is the President of the Alabama Conference of Theatre for 2009 and enjoys working with the Walter F. Trumbauer State High School Theatre Fesitval.
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Elizabeth McCurry
Secretary
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Amy Hockinson
Treasurer
Amy has been the Treasurer of the Alabama Conference of Theatre since 2007 and has enjoyed working with the Walter F. Trumbauer State High School Theatre Festival. Amy is currently teaching Theatre, Reading, Speech, and Debate at Mountain Brook Junior High School. She has a B.A. in Musical Theatre from Samford University and a M.A. of Ed. in English/Language Arts Education from U.A.B. She has taught theatre to children of all ages, from toddlers to college students. In addition to teaching, Amy has worked as a professional actress with Birmingham Children’s Theatre and has participated in a number of productions with local theatre companies around Birmingham.
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Marcus Lane
College and University Division Chair
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Randall Blades
College and University Division Vice-Chair
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Jane Cornelius
Secondary Division Chair
Jane Cornelius currently stands as the Vice Chair of the Secondary Division of the Alabama Conference of Theatre, assisting Nancy Malone. She is Director of Theatre at Thompson High School in Alabaster, AL. In her two years as Director, her students have been honored with Best Actress at State Trumbauer for 2007 as well as numerous All-Star Casts. Her students have been accepted in theatre programs around the state.
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Amy Pugh Patel
Secondary Division Vice-Chair
Amy Pugh Patel has served as Director of Butler Theatre Company at her alma mater, S.R. Butler High School, for the past 13 years. She has directed over 30 shows in the school and community, many of which have competed at the Walter J. Trumbauer Festival, Alabama State Thespian Festival or International Thespian Festival. She has performed in numerous community and college productions, two of which have competed in the SETC Community Theatre Festival. She earned her B.A. in English/Language Arts from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and her M.A. in Directing from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
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Clay Boyce
Community Theatre Chair
Clay Boyce works for the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a Information Systems Specialist III. He has been involved with theatre for over 30 years as an actor, director, producer, lighting designer, sound engineer, graphics designer and fight coordinator. He is the artistic director for Park Players in Birmingham and is the current president of the Birmingham Area Theatre Association (BATA). He’s proud to say that his daughter, Victoria is following in his footsteps! At 15, she has already appeared in 10 productions and is asking when she can direct! Clay lives in Warrior, AL.
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Kevin Garrett
Community Theatre Vice Chair
Kevin Garrett is a student at UAB, pursuing an Accounting major. He has been active in community theatre for over ten years. He has in the past served on the IBD of Intertel, the Executive Committee of Central Alabama Mensa and ACTA Theatre in Trussville. He currently sits on the Boards of Theatre Downtown, serving as Treasurer, and Terrific New Theatre. Kevin has also appeared in short and feature-length films. He has been married to Mary Anne Kane-Garrett for 23 years and resides in Center Point, Alabama.
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Michael P. Howley
State Representative to SETC
MICHAEL P. HOWLEY, a faculty member at Alabama State University in Montgomery, is a sought-after respondent and adjudicator, having spent the past 42 years teaching English and Theatre in Alabama higher education. He is a regular and award winning respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival throughout the Southeast, is Alabama’s only member of the American Theatre Critics Association, has served as the Southeast’s coordinator of the National Critics Institute, and conducts workshops regularly for professional, university, community, and secondary school theatres. He has directed more than 200 plays in and outside Alabama, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Conference of Theatre and the Southeastern Theatre Conference.
