Tim Soulis: Professor of Drama Tim Soulis is Professor of Drama is in his ninth year at Transy. With a Ph.D. in Theater, he has taught courses in drama, performance, and imagination throughout the U.S. and directed more than seventy productions, such as Oedipus the King, King Lear, Tartuffe, The Rivals, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Sweeney Todd, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Cherry Orchard, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Death of a Salesman, The Magic Flute, The Oresteia, The Government Inspector, Peer Gynt, Antigone, Lysistrata, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rumors, and Into the Woods. He is married with three grown children.
Mike Sanders: Set Designer & Technical Coordinator
Mike Sanders holds a B.A. in theatre from Transylvania University (2004) and is currently finishing up his M.A. in theatre from the University of Kentucky. After graduating from Transy he spent two years as the Technical Director for LexARTS at the Downtown Arts Center where he consulted on the Technical aspects of each performance and helped to realize the artistic vision of each production. He then moved to Nashville, TN where he was Assistant Technical Director for the Nashville Children’s Theatre for one season before being promoted to Technical Director for the final three seasons. He has designed Lighting, Sound, Multi-media, Props and Scenery for various Theatres, Churches and other Performance Groups throughout Kentucky and Middle Tennessee including Studio Players, Actors Guild of Lexington, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre and People’s Branch Theatre. Design credits include: Wit, Fully Committed, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Death and the Maiden, It’s a Wonderful Life, and most recently The Bakkhai.
This Transy graduate has been a member of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees since 1977. Before her 16 years at Transy, Devon toured the USA, Canada and Japan with Broadway shows such as They're Playing Our Song, Pride and Prejudice, Grand Hotel, Pippen, La Cage Aux Folles, Barnum, Evita, The Wiz, and Bob Fosse's Dancin'.
Missy Johnston holds a BA in Theatre from Converse College and an MFA in Design and Playwriting from Trinity University. She has designed costumes and/or sets for The Dallas Theatre Centre, The Oklahoma Theatre Centre, Niagara University, KET, The Lexington Shakespeare Festival, Actors Guild of Lexington, UK Opera Theatre, Bluegrass Community and Technical College, Summerfest, and The Lexington Children’s Theatre. She has been designing costumes for Transy since 2007; her credits here include Noises Off, Carousel, The Crucible, Tartuffe, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Missy is also the host of KET’s News Quiz and the founding member of The Bats, a rock ‘n’ roll cabaret band.
Sully spent several years as the Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. While there she worked extensively with new play development, (both in ensemble and solo settings) produced, directed, and taught. Some directing highlights at Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL) include: Bake Off, Proof, Fool for Love, Baby with the Bathwater, the wind-chill factor, Reckless, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. In New York she directed Off Broadway for New Georges, at LaMaMa Experimental Theatre, the New York International Fringe Festival, and a new OBBR musical at the American Theatre of Actors. Her educational experience includes working with Wofford College as an Assistant Professor of Theatre, teaching for several years for the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, working for the North Carolina Theatre by designing and being the Master Acting Teacher for a new Conservatory for Performing Arts, and the Kentucky Conservatory Theatre (KCT). Recently in Lexington Sully directed the world premier of The Hurting Part by Silas House for the University of Kentucky, Lord of the Flies and Pride and Prejudice for KCT’s Summer Fest, and a workshop production of Big Love for KCT.