2010 High School Theatre Festival Adjudicators

David TurnerDavid Turner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance at Florida State University. He teaches various performance classes in the BA Theatre program at FSU. David regularly directs for the School of Theatre, or other theatres in Tallahassee. Prior to joining FSU, David was the Director in Residence and Producer for TheatreTCC. David has lived and worked in both the Dallas and NYC professional acting markets, and recently portrayed Lawrence Washington in the international documentary George Washington in Barbados, which shows regularly at the George Washington House Museum in Barbados.

Dan LaRocque is Chair of Auburn University Theatre and a past chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s southeast region. As a proud member of Actors Equity Association, Dan has appeared at resident theatres throughout the country including San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Richmond’s Theatre Virginia, and the Utah, North Carolina, Illinois, and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals. In England, he appeared at Alan Ayckbourn’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round and his New York credits include appearances on All My Children and Guiding Light. His one-act play, Man Woman Flower published by Playscripts, Inc. has been produced professionally Off Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York and by the West Coast Ensemble Theatre in Los Angeles, and has enjoyed an extensive amateur production history in The United States, Canada, Australia and England. 2009-2010 marks Dan’s twentieth year of teaching at Auburn, where he has directed more than 30 productions.

Suzanne Allmon is a Past President of Just Over the Rainbow Community Theatre, Vice President of the Mississippi Theatre Association, SETC Secondary Division Vice Chair, and the Fine Arts Chair of Oak Grove High School, in Hattiesburg, MS, where she has taught and directed for fourteen years. During that time, Suzanne has directed over 80 productions, won Best Director on every level of competition, has represented Mississippi five times at SETC as well as winning SETC with her production Tales of Trickery in 2008. She and her students have also represented Mississippi at the largest theatre festival in the world, The Fringe, in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1999, 2005, and 2009. Suzanne also juggles being a wife to her amazing husband, Ben and Mother to the world’s greatest four year old, Jacob.