Rod Caspers served as the Executive Director of University Events at The University of Texas at Austin – creating and producing a wide variety of special events. Prior to that he served as the Executive Director of Creative Services for the UT System, where he and colleagues received five Lone Star Emmy Awards for creating/producing the PBS series, State of Tomorrow. He has taught and directed at the University of Wisconsin and The University of Texas at Austin. While at UT he received the Margaret C. Berry Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life as well as being named a Top Hand by the Ex-Students’ Association. Directing credits include Merrily We Roll Along, The Secret Garden, Big River, Honk!, Ah, Wilderness!, Branson or Bust, The Rivers and Ravines and The Bat (a new adaption of Die Fledermaus). Stage managing credits include The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes (seven seasons) and Jim Henson’s Musical World at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, the Muppets and the casts of Avenue Q and Sesame Street. Rod conducts directing/curriculum workshops across the country and served as a guest artist for the Facing History and Ourselves program in Switzerland and the Czech Republic. He co-produced/directed the Texas Medal of Arts Celebration for the Texas Cultural Trust and recently directed Darden Smith’s Western Skies. Rod staged the original production of Conspirare’s Considering Matthew Shepard as well as consequent productions across the US. Last year he co-directed the NYC production at Trinity Wall Street.