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Roy Lightner, KCYPAS Vice President & Secretary Roy Lightner is an award-winning theatre creator, director, choreographer, and educator who got his start at Miller-Marley School of Dance and Voice in Kansas City. He currently serves as the Artistic Director for the 2-time TONY Award winning, Red Mountain Theatre. He is also a Tenured Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to his current positions, Roy served as the Associate Artistic Director for the Transcendence Theatre Company in Sonoma, CA and also on the Musical Theatre Faculty of Ithaca College. Additionally, Roy has taught courses at Arizona State University and Cornell University. His work as a creator, director, and choreographer spans internationally, including productions and immersive events for Google, Lincoln Center, Red Mountain Theatre, the Stephen Sondheim Center, Transcendence Theatre Company, San Francisco City Hall, MTWichita, Music Theatre of Kansas City, GEVA Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Westin Playhouse, Depot Theatre, and more – totaling over 85 productions worldwide. Roy has performed in over 40 professional productions around the world. Roy received 5 National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival awards for an original production, including Special Achievement in Directing and the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award. He was the recipient of the Dorothy Schwartz Outstanding Educator Award from the Alabama Conference of Theatre in 2021. He graduated from Oklahoma City University with a degree in Musical Theatre; and received his Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Concentration in Performance Creation from Goddard College. |
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