Theatre Alumni

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Rocky Sansom, '03

Rockford Sansom is currently an actor and theatre artist based out of New York City. After his time at UWF, Sansom gained admission and won a fellowship to attend the highly selective Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre program at the University of Central Florida. Sansom has worked as a resident Associate Artist at Seaside Music Theater-one of the South's largest and most respected regional theatres. At Seaside, he performed numerous principal roles; his favorite shows include "The Threepenny Opera," Singin' in the Rain," and "Sunday in the Park with George." All the while, Sansom was the Assistant Director for the south's regional premiere of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," and he served as a faculty member in Seaside's Educational Program.

In all of his program biographies, which have been seen by hundreds of thousands of audience members across the world, Sansom proudly acknowledges his training at UWF.

Brent A. Denison, '01

A 2001 BA Theatre Arts graduate and member of the Alpha Psi Omega Omicron Theta cast of 2001. I continued my education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) with a graduate assistantship in their Theatre Department Stage Management Graduate program. While working toward my MFA degree at UNLV, I worked as Box Office Supervisor for the Celine Dion A New Day production at Caesar Palace in Las Vegas. I obtained my M.F.A degree in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Stage Management from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on December 2004. I relocated to the state of California shortly after graduation with my MFA degree, where I currently work as the Box Office & Patron Services Manager for the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons in the county of Los Angeles. I am also the Production Stage Manager for the Santa Clarita Regional Theatre mainstage productions. I have also participated as an actor or Stage Manager in several productions of the Theatre Department at College of the Canyons including South Pacific and Cabaret. A member of INTIX. GO Argonauts!!

Martha Cooper, '70

A tenured Associate Professor of Costume Technology at FSU. A theatrical costumer for over 30 years, Martha has worked as a designer, draper, and shop manager at many professional theatres, including Seaside Music Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Jekyll Island Summer Music Theatre Festival and Tennessee Repertory Theatre. She trained as a young draper at Opryland U.S.A., helped open and managed the costume department at Fiesta Texas Theme Park and headed up the costume team at the Coca Cola Olympic City Theme Park for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.