Curriculum Vitae for Gary Katherine Snider

Curriculum Vitae for Gary Katherine Snider

Kathy ‘Don’t call me Ma’am’ Snider

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Education:Master of Fine Art in Theater

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

Bachelor of Art in Design,

Clemson University,

Clemson, SC

Experience:Teaching

Adjunct Professor of Drama: HoustonCommunity College, Southwest, 1999-present Teaching Acting (Both Drama and Comedy), Introduction to Theater, and Stage Makeup. Designing Costumes and sometimes sets for College productions, and on occasion, Acting and Directing.

Teaching Assistant

University of Houston, 1990-1992

Assisted Professor and Costume Shop foreman with Students in Technical theater class and costume construction for shows; in charge of Costume stock

Crafts Technician/Master

Houston Shakespeare Festival/Children’s Festival 1991-1992 seasons, Houston Grand Opera (Porgy and Bess, Harvey Milk), Houston Ballet (Cruel Garden), The Alley Theatre (Macbeth, The Greeks), Stages Repertory Theater (Anansi Comes to America), Revels (Meso-American Revels)

Designing

University of Houston: Beidermann and the Firebugs (Graduate thesis), Romeo and Juliet.

Houston Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Love’s Labors Lost, Pericles, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like It.

Houston Children’s Festival: The Leprechaun and the Magic Pot, The Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, Pinocchio by Jerry Boch (and the sequel), Cinderella

Stages Repertory Theatre: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (set design), (The rest costumes) Memory of Water, Communicating Doors, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Polish Joke, The Dead Guy, Alter Boyz, and Rabbit Hole, and for younger audiences; The Giver and Ananzi Comes to America.

Shakespeare by the Book: Henry v, Merry Wives of Windsor

Revels Houston: Renaissance Revels, Russian American Revels, Scandinavian Revels.

Houston Community College: (Costume Design alone unless otherwise noted) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Diviners, Godspell, The Good Doctor, The Exonerated, Urine Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Real Inspector Hound, Sweeny Todd, Eleemosynary, Reckless, The Robber Bride Groom, Fools, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Five by Chekhov (partially directed and acted as well as Costumes), Catholic School Girls, The Curious Savage, Girls night Out (partially Directed as well as costumes), Bits and Pieces (Directed), Months on End, Comedy of Errors, Molly Sweeny (costumes and set), Whose Life is it Anyway?, Hot L Baltimore, Defying Gravity, Book of Days.