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Program Director of Live Entertainement Technology and Professor of Theatre comes to LSC-Montgomery most recently from The Kinkaid School where he was the Tech Director and resident scenic and lighting designer. Before that he taught at Eastern Oregon University for two years where he was the Assistant Professor of Design. Rob has a Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Alaska Anchorage. His professional technical credits include The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Idaho Repertory Theatre, Eccentric Theatre Company, The Alaska Theatre of Youth, Anchorage Opera, Alaska Classical Ballet Academy, Trollwood Performing Arts School, and Festival Dance of Idaho. Rob is a five-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for meritorious achievement in design, for his work in lighting and sound design, and has been recognized by the Alaska State Senate for his work in touring A Piece of My Heart to two cities in Russia in 1997 with the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Chase Waites is a professor of theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery where his directing and design credits include 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, introduction to theatre, and theatre history, and is lead faculty for the theatre department. 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. He received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the University of New Orleans. Chase is the Region 6 Vice-Chair for KCACTF. He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Association for Theatre in Higher Education for which he serves as the Two-Year College Program focus group representative and member-at-large for outreach, Texas Educational Theatre Association, and has been inducted into Biltmore’s Who’s Who among Montgomery County Professionals and Marquis’ Who’s Who in America. Chase is also a member of the board of directors for the Crighton Theater.
Live Entertainment Technology Faculty
Rob Kreps936.271.6309
Program Director of Live Entertainement Technology and Professor of Theatre comes to LSC-Montgomery most recently from The Kinkaid School where he was the Tech Director and resident scenic and lighting designer. Before that he taught at Eastern Oregon University for two years where he was the Assistant Professor of Design. Rob has a Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Alaska Anchorage. His professional technical credits include The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Idaho Repertory Theatre, Eccentric Theatre Company, The Alaska Theatre of Youth, Anchorage Opera, Alaska Classical Ballet Academy, Trollwood Performing Arts School, and Festival Dance of Idaho. Rob is a five-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for meritorious achievement in design, for his work in lighting and sound design, and has been recognized by the Alaska State Senate for his work in touring A Piece of My Heart to two cities in Russia in 1997 with the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Chase Waites
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Chase Waites is a professor of theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery where his directing and design credits include 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, introduction to theatre, and theatre history, and is lead faculty for the theatre department. 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. He received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the University of New Orleans. Chase is the Region 6 Vice-Chair for KCACTF. He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Association for Theatre in Higher Education for which he serves as the Two-Year College Program focus group representative and member-at-large for outreach, Texas Educational Theatre Association, and has been inducted into Biltmore’s Who’s Who among Montgomery County Professionals and Marquis’ Who’s Who in America. Chase is also a member of the board of directors for the Crighton Theater.
