Artistic Directors
| Deborah Baldwin
- Youth Program Director. Deborah received a BFA from Stephens College and an MEd from Lesley College. A veteran teacher, Deborah has taught youth theater and worked professionally as an actress and director for various theater companies since 1979. She is co-founder of the Columbia Entertainment Company, a community theater and administrated their theater school for seventeen years. Among a wealth of other experiences, Deborah worked for three years at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT with their "New Plays for Youth" series. Thrice nominated for the Disney Teacher of the Year award, she has also been nominated twice for the Columbia Public School's Ray E. Lewis Outstanding Specialist Award. Deborah has directed over 100 productions, as well as written and adapted folk tales into plays. She co-created and directed the Martin Luther King Diversity Celebration for the City of Columbia last year and will do so next year. Deborah teaches a pre-elective drama class to sixth graders at Smithton Middle School at present. Recently, she has been given permission by Jane Yolen to dramatize her young adult novel Girl in a Cage with playwright, Jon Dorf. She is a member of the Educational Theater Association as well as the Speech and Theater Association of Missouri. Deb served as producer for the summer production of Cats and will be running the Saturday Workshops this fall. Deb will also be producing School House Rock, JR. next May. |
| Angela Howard - Director of Production Classes. Angela graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Theatre from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She has been involved in theatre as a professional actress, singer, and dancer for over 30 years. In 1979 she began teaching dance in Denver. A move to San Diego opened opportunities to continue teaching and performing, as well as working professionally as a makeup artist in theatre and film. A move to Columbia introduced her to Debbie Baldwin through Columbia Entertainment Company where she began to teach. Since 1998 she has directed numerous shows with a number of area theatre companies, schools and churches. In addition to her work with PACE, she is a member of the Educational Theater Association, has taught theatre at LEAD's Teen Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the summer and teaches makeup workshops at the Missouri School for the Deaf. She directs and produces for PACE, teaches classes, designs, and most recently directing the premiere Arts in Health program production of Zink, the Myth, the Legend, the Zebra in Jesse Hall. When she is not teaching 4th grade at Christian Chapel Academy, she performs in small films for Stephens College, and currently is performing with Mizzou ADVANCE Interactive Theatre. Angela will direct The King and I this summer, as well as producing Aladdin, Jr. and will direct The Jelly Bean Conspiracy for the 2009 Arts in Health series. |