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Chase Waites

Professor of Drama
Houston.C.Waites@LoneStar.edu
936.271.6127
Office: D202

Chase Waites is a professor of theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery where his directing and design credits include 12 Angry Jurors (Respondent's Choice-KCACTF) The Birds, The Tempest, Dog Sees God, Power Lunch, The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Show, Peter Pan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Respondent’s Choice-KCACTF) Private Eyes (Respondent’s and Directors’ Choice, Texas State KCACTF-2011), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lend Me a Tenor, Too Much Memory (Committee’s Choice, Texas State KCACTF-2010), Rent, The Miss Firecracker Contest, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Little Shop of Horrors, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, A Trio of Ones, Mind’s Prison, Goodnight Desdemona (Good morning Juliet), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Noises Off, The Actor’s Nightmare, Home Front, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Foreigner, The Shape of Things, The Sleeper, 96 Minutes, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and The Problem. Chase teaches acting and film and theatre appreciation. A Ft. Worth native, he spent ten years in New Orleans where he served as the artistic director of theatre and fine arts department chair at Jesuit of New Orleans. Production credits in New Orleans include award-winning productions of Tracers, The Boys Next Door, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and regional premieres of Dead Man Walking, The Who’s Tommy, Footloose, and Copacabana. Chase received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the University of New Orleans. He is the Immediate Past Chair for KCACTF Region 6, serves in leader ship for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and is a member of Texas Educational Theatre Association. Chase was a 2018 recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion award.

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