Director of the Theatre Conservatory

Guinea Bennett Price is a proud graduate of The Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts (Class of 1989) and holds a BFA in Theatre from Howard University in Washington D.C. She is a co-founder and Artistic director of Soul Rep Theatre Company where her acting and directing credits include The Freedmans, Her Stories, Spunk, In the Blood, Once on this Island and Dreamgirls.

Ms. Bennett Price has had the pleasure of directing Most Valuable Player and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry at the Dallas Children’s Theater and the honor of portraying Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Slocum in Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the title role in Senora Tortuga. She works continuously as a teaching artist with various organizations including The Dallas Public Library, Dallas Theater Center, West Dallas Community Centers, Big Thought, Junior Players and the Bermuda Union of Teachers.

Her transition as a full-time educator at the Wilmer Hutchins Performing Arts High School in 2004 led to five successful years at Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy and four years of innovative arts integration at George Washington Carver Creative Arts Learning Center. She welcomes the opportunity to continue the standard of excellence in arts education by joining her esteemed Alma Mater as a staff member in the Theatre Department.

gubennett@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1291 | Room 180

Assistant Director of Theatre Conservatory / Acting Problems / Comedy / Beginning Management

Lisa has been fortunate to spend her years working alongside some of the best Regional Theatre directors, actors, and educators in the nation. She has been actively involved in the DFW Theatre Community for over twenty five years. After graduating with an extended major in theatre, she served as directing intern at Theatre Three under Jac Alder and Larry O'Dwyer. Lisa was part of a small group of theatre artists that worked through the 1990s and early 2000s to re-establish the fractured theatre community in the Dallas area. For many years, she was Artistic Director of small, but highly revered theatres, a freelance director and choreographer, receiving numerous Directing Awards.

Lisa began teaching in 2000, and has been an integral component of the Tony Award winning and National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award winning Dallas Theatre Center's Education Department ever since. In 2006, she received the Bayard H. Friedman Award for Theatre Education.

Within Dallas ISD, Lilsa is a Distinguished Teacher and A Master Mentor Teacher. She has spent her teaching career working to break down foundational acting methodologies into diagestible pieces for beginning actors, emerging artists, and budding collegiates and professionals. "I want to ignite a fire for theatre in my students that will burn brightly throughout their lives; whether they pursue a career in the arts or become life-long patrons..."

lcotie@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1268 | Room 246

Costume Construction I-III / Intro Technical Theatre - Costumes / Beginning Design / Intermediate Design  Advanced Design I-II

mdavignon@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1273 | Room 174-176

Introduction to Plays and Playwrights / Stage Combat / Beginning Lights/Sound / Skokos Acting Lab / Theatre Technology / Advanced Lighting I-II

cgavitt@dallasisd.org | | Room 272

Beginning Acting 

Jeffery Miller who is hailing all the way from Virginia, is a graduate of Christopher Newport University with a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Studies and Directing and Dramatic Literature and a minor in Dance from Christopher Newport University and a Masters in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. Currently he is pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts in Directing and Theatre Pedagogy from the University of Idaho. Some of Jeffery’s professional credits include being a performer/dancer at Walt Disney World, Performer with Virginia Musical Theatre, Theatre Director at French Woods Festival of the Arts, end a variety of professional and regional companies in NYC, Florida, and Charlotte. Jeffery comes from Newport News Public Schools, in Newport News, Virgina, where he was an IB theatre teacher and theatre director. Jeffery in his free time is a competitive/social ballroom dancer and loves to play video games Jeffery lives with his wife( Who also teaches with Dallas ISD) and 1 cat, Mirage, and is so excited to join the team and work with everyone!

jefmiller@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1248 | Room 274

Director of Film

Amanda Reyes is a Tejana filmmaker and film educator with a Bachelors in Media Arts from the University of North Texas and a Masters of Fine Arts degree with a focus on Directing Narrative Cinema from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, New York.

Over the past decade, Amanda has worked in numerous professional roles on various productions in Los Angeles and in New York City and has developed a curriculum to directly foster the necessary skills and knowledge required to navigate the challenging industries of TV, Film and digital media content creation. Amanda’s work ranges from directing episodics, producing, writing and directing narrative cinema, acting for film and TV, editing and cinematography for independent and commercial productions. Her hands-on approach to teaching the art of filmmaking offers students the ability to create festival-worthy productions with a focus on telling authentic stories that have an uplifting impact on the communities they are for and about.

Amanda has had work screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, American Youth Film Festival, Official Latino Film Festival, Manchester Film Festival, Liverpool Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival and San Antonio Film Festival. Amanda is beyond thrilled to join the family at Booker T. Washington School of Visual and Performing Arts and greatly looks forward to helping foster the stories her students wish to create.

amareyes@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1208 | Room 231

Advanced Stage Management / Advanced Lighting / Set Construction

Travis Ross began his professional theatre career during the Summer of 2002 as an assistant stage manager for the Texas Shakespeare Festival. Since that time, he has served many theaters in the North Texas area as a stage manager, stage crew, carpenter, fly rail operator, rigger, electrician, and more. He holds a B.A. in Drama from Texas Woman’s University.

The majority of his professional career has taken place at the Dallas Theater Center where for eight seasons he worked as the stage operations manager. In that position, he ran over forty shows, was featured on Good Morning Texas, and was awarded the Continuing Ed Grant to explore safety programs and improve overall safety backstage from Theatre Communications Group.

trross@dallasisd.org | 972-925-1296 | Room 274