MICHAEL FISHER, School Director & Theatre Arts

Mike has been the theatre director at Thurston High School since 1990. His credits include dozens of shows at Thurston High School as well as West Side Story for Lane Summer Musical Theatre in 2002, Sideman at the Lord Leebrick Theatre Company, Take Down, Break Down at the Very Little Theatre, as well as others. Mike and the Thurston Theatre Department collaborated with well-known playwright William Mastrosimone on three new plays for high schools, including Bang Bang You’re Dead, Take Down Break Down, and, most recently, Sleepwalk (which toured to Scotland, Oregon, Washington, & Arizona).

Mike is a Leadership Coach for the Educational Theatre Association and works with theatre directors in Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada. He’s received The Rex Rabold Memorial Award for excellence in theatre education, the Rae Mona Reynolds Humanitarian Award for promoting excellence in theatre arts from the Oregon Theatre Arts Association as well as the Melba Day Sparks Memorial Award, Oregon’s Educational Theatre Association Hall of Fame. He’s been listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers five times.

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