HARRY PARKER (Director) is a Professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University, where he served as Department Chair for 18 years. He has directed more than 100 professional and university plays and musicals, including productions at the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Stage Repertory Theatre (Houston), American Heartland Theatre (Kansas City), and Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre. In Dallas-Fort Worth, his professional directing credits include Thurgood, Permanent Collection and Company at Jubilee Theatre, Into the Woods at Lyric Stage, On the Exhale, First Date, An Act of God and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Stage West, Hunting and Gathering at Amphibian Stage Productions, and 16 productions at Circle Theatre, including The Fantasticks, My Name is Asher Lev, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Whipping Man and Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern trilogy. At TCU, he has directed Oklahoma!, You Can’t Take It With You, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sweeney Todd, Little Women, The Skin of Our Teeth, and No, No Nanette among others. His play I’m Proud of You, co-written by Tim Madigan and based on Madigan’s book, has had 5 professional productions completed or scheduled, and will be produced again in the summer of 2025 at Theatre Arlington. Originally from Oklahoma City, Harry received his BFA from TCU, and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is a two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence, and a former National Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. In 2013, he won the TCU Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar. He was also named the recipient of the Elston Brooks Lifetime Achievement Award from the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County. Harry is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and also a member of The Dramatists Guild.