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Paul Jefferson A Word About Mr. Jefferson – Theatre Arts Director Mr. Jefferson is in his second year of teaching Theatre Arts at Rider coming here after a fifteen-year association with the Denver Center Theater Company, the 1998 Tony Award winner for Outstanding Regional Theatre. While employed as a Stage Manager at the Denver Center he worked on over sixty productions including South Pacific, Carousel, A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar and the Japanese tour of Desire Under the Elms. While in Colorado he served as Artistic Director for Writer's Lab Theatre, a professional company committed to the production of new works. He also directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the famed Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO and Anything Goes in Vail, Colorado. Mr. Jefferson began his love affair with the theatre at Hirschi High School in 1970. After graduating fourth in his class in 1973 he completed his undergraduate degree (Magna Cum Laude) at Midwestern State in 1977 majoring in Drama with a minor in Speech. He then pursued and completed a Master of Arts degree at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he majored in Theatre and had a double minor in Public Address and Radio and Television Production. He then worked as an Instructor of Theatre at Nichols State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Following his tenure there, Mr. Jefferson completed a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Directing from Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State he served as director for the Theatre 100 Company, a company of eight actors who performed work from every genre of theatre from the Greeks to contemporary works. Additionally, Mr. Jefferson has worked throughout the country including Texas, Colorado, Mississippi, California, Pennsylvania and Louisiana as a director, actor, stage manager and designer. He now has returned to Wichita Falls and heads the theatre program at Rider. He is ecstatic with this newest challenge and finds teenagers to be the most complex, frustrating and fascinating group of people that he has ever worked with. His wife, Laura, is chairperson of the theatre
program at Midwestern State and he is the proud father of a 13-year-old
daughter who attends Iowa Park Jr. High. His latest work is Romeo and Juliette, performed by students at Rider High School. Here are pictures from that event:
Program cover from the play.
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