Penny Ayn Maas, Associate Professor of Theatre at TCU, is thrilled to be making her WaterTower directing debut with A Gentleman’s Guide. Other DFW credits include directing and choreographing for Lyric Stage in Dallas: Cabaret, Man of La Mancha, I Do! I Do!, Guys and Dolls, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mame and Anything Goes (for which she won a Column Award for Best Choreography of a Musical, Equity), as well as choreographing First Date for Stage West. Regionally, her choreographer credits include working Off-Broadway with the National Yiddish Theatre (The Pirates of Penzance, The Marriage Contract,) the Algonquin Theatre Company (Sessions, From Gershwin to Berlin), Second Stages – as an associate (Vanities) and at the Cherry Lane Theatre for the Fringe Festival (Kaboom!). She was also the Associate Director and Co-Choreographer for three years on the BC/EFA benefit concert "Broadway Backwards.” She frequently directs and choreographs for the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts (Grumpy Old Men: the Musical, South Pacific, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma!, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Les Miserables) where she won the Broadway World DC Award for Best Direction of a Dinner Theatre show. Member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and an SDC Associate.