Current Season - A Listing of shows sceduled for our season
Visit Downtown Plano. Restaurants, shopping and the lovely Haggard Park, all in Downtown Plano just across from the theater.
About Rover - Information about Rover's history as a theater around Dallas and its residency in Plano as the only professional theater in Plano
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Past Shows - A pictorial history of our humble acting troup spanning our debut in Dallas, our travels through Garland, Mesquite, Addison and Flower Mound, to our happy home in lovely Downtown Plano.
Contribute - You time, your talents, your tax deductible donations to our 501c3 Nonprofit Theater all make Rover possible.
Auditions - Our current and upcoming needs for actors, techicians and production staff are liisted here throughout the season
Classes - Acting classes for children and adults, beginners to advanced taught by creative and nurturing professionals year round.
News - What is happening in Rover, in Plano, in the world of small professional theater.
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Lisa Devine

Associate Artistic Director

Lisa Devine is proud to call Rover her artistic home as a resident director, a member of the artistic committee and a member of the board of directors. She holds an MFA in Directing New Works from the University of Oklahoma. Some highlights of her professional theater career include world premieres of several new scripts; working with Tony Award winner John Cullum; modernizing a musical in conjunction with the Leonard Bernstein Estate; having a show run for 6 months in Chicago; and hosting playwrights Steven Dietz and Stephen Massicotte when Rover produced their respective plays. Some of the shows that she is the proudest of are the ones that she has directed for Rover are Private Eyes, An Infinite Ache, Mary's Wedding and Veronica's Room. As an educator she has coached actors at the college/university level at some of the country's top acting conservatories, including DePaul University, Rutgers University and University of the Arts. She teaches across three academic disciplines: Theater, Communication, and Film. In 2001, the world-premiere production of Cheating Death received 22 awards, including Judge's Choice and Directing at the national play competition KC/ACTF. In 2006, Lisa was nominated for Leading Educator of Higher Education in Philadelphia, PA. Her research areas include the Holocaust, Theater of the Oppressed, and Censorship in the Arts. She is currently on faculty at Collin College Theater Department and is the coordinator for Rover Adult Education. Lisa also sits on the Artistic Advisory Board for the Off-Broadway company Theater East. Next summer, after she directs Rover's production of Days of Wine and Roses, she will travel to NYC to direct Theater East's New York premiere of Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God.