Y.A.T.P. Faculty Members
Stephanie Riggs (FMPAT Executive Director)
(photo)
holds a B. F. A. in Theatre and Television from Texas Christian University, where she received the Fine Arts Guild and Ann Bradshaw Stokes Scholarships for her work in Musical Theatre. While at T. C. U., Stephanie studied voice under Dr. Vincent Russo, editor or ‘The Journal of Research in Singing’ and Jan Sullivan, author of ‘The Phenomenon of the Belt-Pop Voice’. Most recently Stephanie has been seen with Casa Manana in Show Boat & Gypsy, Lyric Stage in Finian's Rainbow (Susan the Silent), Theatre Three in The Wild Party (Queenie) and I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change (Woman #1), Uptown Players’ in Falsettos (Trina) and A New Brain (Rhoda), PRT’s The Rocky Horror Show (Janet), Nuncrackers (Sister Hubert), and ERT’s The Sound of Music (Maria). Her favorite roles at FMPAT include The Last Five Years (Cathy), Angel Street (Bella), A...My Name is Alice (Various), Putting It Together (Woman #2), Into The Woods (Witch), Adventures in Love (Suzanna) and Cabaret (Sally). Stephanie is a multiple time featured soloist with the Las Colinas/New Arlington/Garland Symphonies and performed cabaret entertainment regularly at After Dark Piano Bar with Uptown Players “Exposed”. She is also a voice-over/recording artist for companies such as Mary Kay Cosmetics, The Staubach Corp., WRR Classical 101.1 & The Las Colinas Symphony. She is the current Educational Director and Founder of FMPAT (Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre), a professional, nonprofit theatre & member of The Dallas Theatre League. Stephanie is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. As a producer, director, she has worked on over 100 productions with the areas top talent.
As a teacher, Stephanie holds her Teaching Certificate with the Royal Academy of Dancing,
and has studied classical ballet with Egan Weng of the Royal Danish Ballet, and in Oslo, Norway with the Royal Norweigian Ballet. She has attended R.
A. D.multiple workshops with Lynn Wallis and Dame Antoinette Sibley as well as esteemed prima ballerina Irina Baronova in Banff, Canada and London, England. In the States, she has received teacher training from Gillian Davis, R. A. D. Examiner at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Stephanie’s past and current students have worked in National, Regional and Local professional productions. Stephanie twice directed the youth choir comprised of her own students for the Dallas Summer Musical’s stop of the National Tour of Joseph...Dreamcoat. Her students were seen in the National Tour of Showboat (Young Kim), Regional Tour of The Music Man (Amaryllis), Casa Manana Production of Annie (Annie) and various other Casa productions, and locally Lyric Stage’s Opal (Opal) and many of FMPAT’s productions. Stephanie also offers private coaching to selected students. For more information visit www.stephanie-riggs.com.
Juli Erickson (Acting) (photo)
began her long career at the tender age of 15 and she has been acting, singing and dancing ever since! Juli has had supporting leads in such films as Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story and The Legend of the Phantom Rider. Recent films include Molding Clay where she plays the wife of Charles Durning, Fat Girls playing Grandma and Every Word is True, in the role of Aunt Sook (Truman Capote’s aunt). On television she has been featured on Matlock, Tornado!, Christmas Child and a number of appearances on Walker, Texas Ranger. On stage, Juli has been Aunt Eller in Oklahoma, Vivian in Size of the World, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Mother Watts in A Trip to Bountiful, The Countess in The Women, to mention a few (Juli enjoys playing strong, southern women). Juli is a member of S.T.A.G.E., former board member of Women in Film, and is represented in Dallas by the Horne Agency.
Grant James (Acting) (photo)
earned his BFA in Theatre from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and his BA in Psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois. He has been acting, writing and directing for over 40 years, and his career has taken him to more than 30 countries around the world. He has been featured in such films as Tombstone, UHF, Mutant Species and The Wendell Baker Story with the Wilson brothers, on such TV series as The Young Riders, America’s Most Wanted and Walker, Texas Ranger. On stage he has been seen as Henry II in Lion in Winter, the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Don Quixote in Man of LaMancha, and for the last two FMPAT productions of A Christmas Carol he has been E. Scrooge, Esq. He is a member of S.T.A.G.E. and represented in Dallas by the Horne Agency. Grant is married to actress Juli Erickson and between them they boast 11 children, 39 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Adam Wright (Music Direction-Musical
Theatre) is a Dallas-Area music
director with credits including: Victor/Victoria, Dreamgirls,
Once on This Island, and The Fantasticks with TFM Productions,
Ruthless! with Uptown
Players, Chess, Cabaret and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Songs for a New World (Dallas Theatre League Leon Rabin Award Nomination), Man of La Mancha, and Adventures in Love at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre, Blood Brothers at Theater
Three, The Stinky Cheese Man at the Dallas
Children’s Theater, and You’re a Good
Man, Charlie Brown with Richardson
Theatre Centre (Dallas Theater League Leon Rabin Award
Nomination), and was a pianist for the three-year run of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! at Theater Three. He also has performed as a singer, pianist, and accompanist at After Dark, the Hideaway, and the Wednesday Cabaret series at the Trinity River Arts Center as well as appearing as the Ugly Duckling in the Unity
Church of Dallas production of HONK! last year. Adam
is currently working on an original project, a Jazz-Age
musical Sanctuary. He teaches music at the White
Rock Montessori School, and also teaches music and theater classes at the Dallas Children’s Theater. He studied piano with Alfred Mouledous and composition with Dr. Kevin Hanlon at SMU, where he composed new music for a production of As You Like It, and did orchestrations and arrangements for Twelfth Night with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. Other information about his current projects can be found at http://www.adam-wright.com.
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