Chase Waites is an associate professor of theatre at LSC-Montgomery where his directing and design credits include 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, is lead faculty for the theatre department, and administrates the audio visual systems specialist program. 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 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, US Institute for Theatre Technology, Texas Educational Theatre Association and has recently been inducted into Biltmore’s Who’s Who among Montgomery County Professionals and Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.