EVITA ARCE (’98) graduated from the University of Texas with degrees in Theatre and Radio/Television/Film. She worked as a production intern in Los Angeles before moving to the Big Apple. She was a finalist on the first season of So You Think You Can Dance. She toured internationally in a production of swing dancing where she dyed her hair red. Evita’s mom still works at Bowie, so you can reach her through Eva Arce.

JORDAN ARREDONDO ('00) has relocated to the LA area where he is trying to make a

break into the film industry both as a writer and an actor. He is currently developing a screenplay about the late Ron Crumpton. After attending McLennan Community College, he finished his training at the LA campus of the American Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Look up Jordan if you’re in LA or email him at ohbob21@hotmail.com or on Facebook.

TRACY AUSTRIA (ST DIC) (’03) A former Senior Director and Vice-President of the Starlight

Theatre Company, Tracy Jane Austria graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After researching the growing Arts Movement and TheatreWorks National Theatre in Singapore (2004), followed by study and an internship in a children’s theatre in London (2005), Tracy recognized her desire for a career in arts advocacy and education outreach at a national level. Currently, Tracy taught kindergarten for Teach America in New York and married a fellow UNC alum. They have now relocated to California.

MICHAEL BAILEY ('02) finished a degree in Psychology Texas State University and works for the State of Texas in Child Probation.

JACK BATONGBAKAL (’02) attended the University of Texas majoring in Psychology.. Email Jack at TxSUPERMAN@aol.com.

DANA BOESEN (’97) attended McLennan Community College and received a design

award from the Texas Educational Theatre Association to finish his degree in Costuming at Southwest Texas State University. He is employed by Nordstrom at Barton Creek Mall in Austin.

ROBERT BRADLEY ('02) received a Theatre Design degree from Baylor University in 2006 and married STEPHANIE BROWNING in May, 2006.. He has traveled to Prague, Czech Republic to attend the Quadrennial, an international theatre design conference. He, along with five other Baylor theatre students, produced and acted in a well-received movement adaptation of "Pilgrim's Progress" to an SRO house as part of their participation in the conference. Stephanie and Robert have moved to New York. Contact Stephanie and Robert at bobbybradley@gmail.com or come visit with his mom who still takes production pictures for us.

RANDALL BROWN graduated from a high school in South Dakota in 1993 after his

family moved there his senior year. He appeared in a Turner television production that was filmed on the Indian reservation there.

CHRIS CORNWELL (’02) received his BFA in Theatre from Texas State University in San

Marcos and moved to New York. He has appeared in many community theatre productions in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Contact Chris at edgarcornwells@yahoo.com or on Facebook.

JEREMY COTTRELL (’94) received his undergraduate degree from Southwestern

University in Georgetown and finished his master’s in the north. He lives with his wife in Minneapolis and has his own theatre company there.

BERNARD DAVIS ('03) was a musical theatre major at Sam Houston State University and

participated in two entries in the American College Theatre Festival. He performed in AINT MISBEHAVIN' and played Butch in NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES. His email address is revb03@hotmail.com.

JEREMY DUNN (’94) recently returned to Austin and completed his master’s in English at Texas State and his teaching certification to teach English at the secondary level. He is married to Jessica, who is a kindergarten teacher in Pflugerville. Lately, his artistic life has swung towards music since he has his own electronic studio and has been working on some lyrics and dance oriented music to achieve ultimate success and $$. His latest theatrical performance was in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM as Scottish Rite Theatre with fellow Bowie-exes Gwen Kelso and Chris Cornwell. Contact Jeremy at jernjess@aol.com.

ELIZA ELLIOTT (’02) graduated from St. Edward’s University in Austin. Her original

play, HARVEST WOMEN, had a staged reading at the 2002 International Thespian

Society Convention and won a Texas Educational Theatre Association Playwriting

Award. It was produced by Bowie students at the 2003 TETA Convention. In 2005, she helped create and direct at compilation project at Bowie about the hero cycle. She now teaches at Del Valle High School. Her email address is wren_falling@yahoo.com.

SARAH ENGELKING (‘99) graduated in 2005 with an MS in Communication Disorders

and is working as a speech-language pathologist for a private practice called Pegasus Quest that serves the pediatric population. The company is based out of Harlingen, but they are opening a new office in northwest Austin. She is getting married in the summer of 2009. Sarah’s email address is Sarah4074@hotmail.com.

CINDY EVILSIZER (’89) has four kids, graduated for Texas State University, and works for Home Depot.

NELSON FLORES (’92) married ERICA (’92) and works in the computer industry in

Austin. He is a free-lance producer and returned to Bowie to direct as an alumnus in 2000. Most of his time is spent with his three children.

SUMMER FOGLE (THOMSON) (’94) lives in Fallon, Nevada with her husband and

cares for her three boys.

KATHERINE GEE (‘05) is attending Brigham Young University on a full scholarship.

Her name, along with that of brother Matt and Matt Zrebski, was recently added to the “star” placque at the back of the Bowie theatre as an “outstanding fine arts student.” Her email address is atona@hotmail.com. She will return to Austin in 2009 and start a career as a professional storyteller.

MATT GEE (’00) served as a missionary in Nicaragua for two years and recently married a fellow-musical theatre veteran from BYU. He is now living in Washington, D.C.. Contact him at geesito@hotmail.com.

RYAN GEE (’95) was the first of the Gee family to graduate from Bowie when the

family moved here from Missouri. He served as a missionary for his church in Italy for two years before graduating from Brigham Young University. He received his Masters from the University of Texas, and Bowie scooped him back up. He is now the assistant choir director at Bowie and works with Sheryl Jones. He married in July 2008 and is now the busy stepfather to two girls.

SCOTT GEE (’02) graduated with a degree in business from the University of Texas and is going to travel the world as a representative for John Deere.

TIFFANY GEE (’98) graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in

Journalism. She worked for a newspaper in Miami, Florida until she her husband and THREE kids moved back to Austin so that her husband could attend graduate school at UT. She is now babysitting the Gee family home in Circle C while dad works in Detroit and caring for her fourth boy.

JEFFREY GONZALES (‘94) attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art for a

time and supported himself as a bartender while working in the New York theatre. He made his “all-there” appearance in an Off-Broadway play but made a lot of money in a national commercial for Sprint. He has recently relocated in Los Angeles and is trying to get things going there. He lives in the same neighborhood as Steve Sjolseth.

DYLAN HENDERSON (’00) was on the three-year plan at McLennan Community

College and spent his summers working at Kent State University as a technician for their summer repertory program. He worked as a theatrical technician for the Royal Caribbean cruise ship line, finished his degree in Lighting Design at Texas State University. His email address is throttle135@hotmail.com, but you might also find him in the graduate lighting program at UT.

MATT HUMPHREY ('00) graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU in

2004 and frequently played opposite fellow-Bowie graduate VIRGINIA KULL. He interned at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre In the fall of 2006, he played Claudio in a Rep production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. You can still reach him through his mom, Pat Conroy, at Bowie or try to catch up with him in Los Angeles where he has just relocated.

HOLLI HILL (’90) was Bowie’s first Senior Director. She graduated from the University

of Texas with a degree in government and worked as an intern in Washington, D.C. for a time. She was also a lobbyist to the Texas State Legislature for the small college system. She is currently a pharmaceutical company representative and has now moved her base back to Austin and is enjoying being a new mom.

GWENDOLYN KELSO (’98) graduated from Webster University after several

performances with the St. Louis Repertory Theatre. After a stint at the Pittsburgh

Shakespeare Festival, she moved to Chicago to study and perform. She has moved back to Austin for a while to help her dad get the children’s theatre company going at Scottish Rite Temple. She now works for Zachary Scott Theatre and can be seen in many local productions. Contact Gwen by emailing her at gwendolynannekelso@hotmail.com.

VIRGINIA KULL ('00) graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU in 2004

and worked at the Dallas Shakespeare Festival that summer. She has since moved to New York and has performed at regional theatres in North Carolina and New York. She now has an agent and was recently cast in an off-Broadway production with REGAN THOMPSON. She made her Broadway debut in a Horton Foote play in the fall of 2008 and married an actor is May 2009.

SKYLAR LAWSON (’96) works as a professional model and has done modeling shoots

in Europe.

SUSANNA LEAR (FLETCHER) (’96) is married to a policeman and is now the mother

of three. She graduated from the University of Texas and taught journalism and English for a time at Small Middle School before the birth of her first child. She was co-founder of Piece of Cake, a company that baked and decorated cakes for special occasions in Austin, but has now become a full-time mom.

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LATICIA LEON (’02) graduated from Fordham University in New York and is moving to LA in the fall of 2008.

T.J. LINNARD ('02) graduated from the State University of New York. His email

address is krinkles84@hotmail.com. He has already had a short stint on the soap opera, “Guiding Light,” and will be in a film with Uma Thurman.

CHRIS MARTINEZ (’02) enrolled at Texas Lutheran University and graduated with a degree in Dramatic Media with a minor in History. He finished his masters in May 2008 from Texas A&M – Commerce, got married in June, and moved to Colorado. You can contact him on Facebook.

EVIE (MERRYMAN) HUNT (‘03) graduated with a degree in musical theatre at the University of Oklahoma and has moved to New York with her actor husband. She has just completed a national tour of Hairspray. Contact her at eviehutton@gmail.com or look her up in New York.

ELIZABETH MORRISSEY ('02) graduated from St. Edward's University in three years, moved to New York to be an intern in a New York law firm before going to law school in Michigan.

JULIANNA NICHOLS (’92) attended McLennan Community College and Southwest

Texas State University before graduating from California State University at Fullerton. JULIE worked in film, commercials, amusement parks, and local theatre in California before returning to Austin as a free lance producer. She and NELSON FLORES cofounded a production company, and she returned to Bowie to direct as an alumni in 2000.

FRANK NIETO (’00) graduated with a degree in Lighting Design at West Texas A&M

University. He has worked on the summer outdoor musical production, TEXAS, there. Last we heard, he was planning to attend graduate school at SMU.

CHRIS PITTMAN (‘98) served five and a half years in the Marine Corps, two and a half

years as an Embassy Guard in Jerusalem and the Republic of Estonia. He is now

attending a small international university in Estonia studying business and photography and will eventually move back to Austin or the MidEast to study Arabic/MidEastern Studies. His email address is pitt78652@yahoo.com.

KEVIN POE (’96) married CAROLINE BYNUM (’96), and they have two daughters.

Kevin graduated from Stanford University before moving back to Austin to work in the computer industry.

CINDY ROBINETT (’97) graduated from Southwest Texas State University and taught drama to middle school students in London before becoming an assistant principal. Please contact her if you’re going to London! She would love to hear from her friends by emailing her at cindyrob78@hotmail.com. She and her husband are starting their own school and have welcomed two baby boys to their family.

NICHOLAS RODRIGUEZ (’95) received his Master of Music degree from the

University of Texas. He has toured Europe performing in musicals and was a performer on a cruise line for two years. He has performed around the country as Jesus in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and Che in EVITA. Most recently he appeared in TARZAN on Broadway. He occasionally returns to Austin for guest appearances. His most recent appearance was at Texarts’ production of DAMN YANKEES. Contact Nick at nickrod@hotmail.com.

REBEKKAH ROSS (’93) is married to a music teacher/jazz musician and lives in

Queens, New York. She is the founder and co- artistic director of the 2 Texans Theatre Company and is considered a regular in the Off-Broadway performing community.

SAMUEL SHANNON (’94) graduated from the University of Texas with an engineering

degree. He worked at Applied Materials in Austin and was an extra on the upcoming film, “The Alamo.” S am’s email address is raynwar17@yahoo.com

STEVEN SJOLSETH (’93), known professionally as STEVE BAKKEN, graduated from

Southern Methodist University and works in Los Angeles theatres. He and other SMU alums formed a Los Angeles based performing company called Meadows Basement that has currently produced two productions. He is supporting himself by working in a restaurant where a lot of high profile industry people eat. His email address is hollywoodbakken@msn.com. One of Steve’s brothers married SUSI LEAR’s sister-in-law. Look for Steve in a national Western Union commercial in April 2008.

NIKKI SPINOSA (’93) graduated from Southwest Texas State University. She worked in LA for a while on the soap opera, “Passions,” and taught theatre and music in a private school. She has returned to Austin and in the fall of 2006 became the theatre director at Reagan High School. She married the Band Director there in the summer of 2007 and is having a baby in the summer of 2009. You can reach Nikki at nikita4S@aol.com.

ADAM STANDLEY ('02) studied at the College Conservatory of Music in

Cincinnati as a dramatic performance student and moved to Seattle to perform. He spent the summer of 2005 with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in their intensive viewpoints and Suzuki training program. His email address is hockey_adam@hotmail.com.

KELLI STRYKER (‘04) graduated from Webster University in 2008. majoring in musical

theatre. She performed for two summers in the Zilker Hillside Theatre and moved to New York.

MARITA STRYKER (’01) graduated from Oklahoma City University. She recently

performed the female lead in CRAZY FOR YOU, Zilker Hillside Theatre’s 2003 summer musical in the park. After a stint as a performer on a cruise ship, she has moved to New York. She has an agent and teaches yoga to children.

REGAN THOMPSON (‘’91) is married to a lawyer and lives in a great apartment in Astoria, New York. She was recently cast in an off-Broadway production with VIRGINIA KULL.

LITA THOMPSON (’00) was a Theatre Management major at Webster University in St.

Louis. She attended McLennan Community College for two years.

JON WALKER (’91) graduated from the University of Texas and is a policeman with the Austin Police Department.

NIKL WESTLING () is currently working on development of a "makeover" show for

TLC. Her email address is Nikl75@hotmail.com. She married her best friend in May 2007 and resides in New York.

AMY WHAN (MORGAN) (’97) graduated from New York University Tisch School of

the Arts with a degree in Musical Theatre. After a short stint as a waitress/actress in New York, she met and married Jason Morgan and received her masters from Princeton Theological Seminary. Contact her at amjas03@msn.com. Last we heard, she was looking for a job as a youth minister.

GRACE WRAY (’02) was an education major at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Contact her on Facebook.

SARAH ZERINGUE (‘04) graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in musical theatre and has moved to New York.

MATT ZREBSKI (’91) graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern

Methodist University (summa cum laude) with a BFA in Acting, Directing, and

Playwriting. Portland in 1997. His email address is watersongz@gmail.com. Post

graduation, Matt immediately took over the Dallas, TX summer company, Youth Could Know Theatre, where he acted as co-Artistic Director, changing the company's mission statement to only produce new works by young upcoming writers. In his 3 year tenure, he produced 7 world premieres and received a Best of Dallas award for innovative theatre. While still in Texas, Matt also began to gain recognition as a composer, scoring numerous plays including Twelfth Night for the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and a raw, rock and roll version of Mother Courage and Her Children for the Margo Jones Theatre. Once in Portland, Matt began working off and on with Stark Raving Theatre (SRT), directing 1999's Prometheus Bound which earned 4 Drammy Awards including one for his score. He also worked extensively on installments of the New Rave New Works Festival and in 2000, musical directed Goblin Market. From 2001 to 2002, Matt served as Associate Artistic Director for SRT, rewriting the mission statement to only produce new work and revamping the internal structure of the company to employ a group of

resident production artists. In 2002, Matt was promoted to Artistic Director, a position he maintains today. In this time, Matt has directed, written, and scored numerous productions and continues to outreach both locally and nationally for the best of new works. His plays, The Planet Me, Neck, A Place Called Timothy, Parts, Darkstep and Dawning, After the Zipper, and Ablaze have been produced in the Dallas, Texas and/or Portland areas. He is a two-time recipient of the Rosenfield Playwriting award. Matt also has a rich background in youth education. From 1994 to 1998, he was the director for the Teen and Kids Musical Theatre Workshops at SMU. He has also worked at numerous high schools both in Texas and Portland, serving often as a director, writer, vocal coach and teacher of various theatre disciplines. Currently, he is on staff at John Robert Powers Modeling and Talent School where he teaches acting, voice and diction, and improvisation to teens and children. He is also with Literary Arts, teaching through their Writers in the Schools program and serves as an instructor of playwriting for Portland Center Stage's Visions and Voices. From home, he runs a private coaching practice for vocalists, actors, and playwrights.