Y.A.T.P. Faculty Members
Stephanie Riggs (FMPAT Executive Director)
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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 (Student Advisor) (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 (Student Advisor) (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.
Lee Harris (Musical
Theatre) National Tours: Bye Bye Birdie, Altar Boyz, Little Women. He has traveled the country working with theatres such as Casa Manana, Uptown Players, Barter Theatre, Watertower Theatre and Wagon Wheel Theatre. Lee is also a touring musical director for Radio City Entertainment’s City Christmas Spectacular. Favorite shows performed over the years are Sunday in the Park with George, The Spitfire Grill, The Who’s Tommy, Urinetown, Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and, of course, Little Women. Lee has worked as accompanist and arranger for Stephanie D’Abruzzo (B’Way - Avenue Q), Christian Campbell (London - Tick, Tick…Boom) & Michael Uri (ABC’s Ugly Betty).
Mark Mullino has over 20 years of teaching and professional theater experience a s an actor, director and musical director. He is a long time vocal coach and instructor to many professional actors. In addition to private coaching Mark teaches musical theater at KD Actors Conservatory and Collin College as well as many audition workshops and camps throughout the metroplex.
Lori Weber (Acting - Dance) is an alumni of the Young Artist Training Program and has been involved with FMPAT since 1993. She has studied dance and acting at TWU, and UCLA. She holds a BSN from Baylor University and recently received a 2 year degree in Film and Television Production from the UCLA Extension program. She has performed in several FMPAT productions, Dallas Summer Musicals, and various other venues across the metroplex. TV credits include General Hospital: Night Shift.
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