The Drama Department is led by the following faculty members:
 

DEBORAH ANDERSON, Intro to Costume Design, Theatre Appreciation
Deborah.Anderson@lonestar.edu

 

M.F.A. in Theatre, University of Houston, 2004
B.F.A. in Theatre, Southwest Texas State University, 1994

 

Deborah L. Anderson is a Costume Designer and Actor. She has experience teaching Theatre Appreciation, Acting, Costume, Wig Design and Stage Make-up. Recent performance credits include Happy Hour for Lanfour Productions as well as performing here in …and Miss Reardon drinks A little. Other performance credits include True West, Trojan Women, Titus Andronicus, and The Mikado. As a local Costume Designer she has designed costumes for Main Street Theater; Houston Shakespeare Festival; Unity Theatre Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston; Lone Star CyFair; and Houston Community College Southwest. In addition to design, she has worked constructing costumes at several regional theatres including Utah Shakespeare Festival, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Indiana Repertory Theatre.

 

ROBYN HUIZINGA, Acting, Stagecraft, 

 

M.F.A. in Theatre Arts & M.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with tracks in Communication Studies, Arts Administration, and Business Management, Texas Tech University, 2011 & 2014 respectively

B.A. in Theatre Performance magna cum laude, Oklahoma City University, 2005

A.A. in Drama with honors, Paris Junior College, 2004

 

Robyn R. Huizinga originally hails from Phoenix, AZ. She is an actor and director with 30+ years of experience performing in and directing and choreographing for theatre and musical theatre. Before teaching at LSC-CyFair, she taught for nine years at Paris Junior College in Paris, TX, as a full-time Instructor of Speech and Drama, and the Speech Program Coordinator. She was also a co-sponsor of Delta Psi Omega Cast #55, and participated in community outreach events with DPO, including creating a series of theatre workshops for kids and tweens at Paris Public Library. She also served as a board member and children’s class teacher at Paris Community Theatre.  

 

Huizinga has a passion for teaching and directing and loves watching students grow and make discoveries. She particularly enjoys teaching voice and movement work and working to build strong ensembles onstage. She has studied the Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen approaches to acting and uses many of their techniques in her acting classes and when directing. She enjoys working on new plays, and created Pyro Playfest at Paris Junior College, an annual new play festival which helped to develop and stage new plays from around the world. Some favorite submissions came from professional playwrights based in New Zealand, Ireland, and Thailand. She is also passionate about American musical theatre and theatre for young audiences. Huizinga is a company member of The Plague Mask Players, a professional theatre producing classics and new works based in the DFW area.  

 

She is a Paris Junior College alumna who graduated with her AA in Drama with honors in 2004. She earned a BA in Theatre Performance from Oklahoma City University, graduating magna cum laude, in 2005. Her MFA in Theatre Arts and MS in Interdisciplinary Studies with tracks in Communication Studies, Arts Administration, and Business Management were received from Texas Tech University in 2011 and 2014, respectively.  

 

Outside of teaching and theatre, she is a proud sci-fi nerd, who loves Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, and more. She is an occasional cosplayer and runs a Star Trek fan page on multiple social media platforms for which she creates original visual and video content.  She is a Minor League Baseball enthusiast who travels in the summers to attend games at as many MiLB ballparks that she can. She has a love of gardening, appreciates a good cup of coffee, and is a “dog mom” to T-Rex and Dodger.

 

ROBERT HURLBURT, Theatre Appreciation, Dual Enrollment
Robert.S.Hurlburt@lonestar.edu

 

M.A. in Theatre Production, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1995
B.F.A. in Acting/Directing, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1993

 

Robert Hurlburt received his Master of Arts in Theatre Production from Stephen F. Austin State University. He currently teaches Introduction to Theatre at Lone Star College, Cy-Fair, and studies with Philip Lehl at the Kim Tobin Acting Studio. He is active in local theatre, most recently assistant directing LSC Cy-Fair's Biloxi Blues and acting in Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center's Twelfth Night. He previously taught Theatre at La Marque High School and Dialects for Actors at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.

 

AMIRA JUDEH, Film Appreciation
Amira.Judeh@lonestar.edu

 

CAROL WORSNOP, Film Appreciation