Tammy Honesty and Ryan Scoble are the two newest faculty members in West Virginia University’s School of Theatre & Dance.
In Honesty’s more than twenty-five-year career as an educator, she has taught both full- and part-time at a variety of universities ranging from 2-year programs to 4-year conservatory programs. She is a native Ohioan and holds degrees from Wilmington College of Ohio and West Virginia University.
Honesty is an active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology at both the regional and national levels. She recently completed her term as the Vice President of Education & Training and is currently the chair of the Women in Theatre group. Honesty is also a member of USA Local 829 as a scenic designer.
Honesty’s designs have earned awards and recognition regionally, nationally and internationally. Most recently, her scenic design for The Memory Exam is about to open its debut Off-Broadway production at 59E59 Theatres. Her work has been showcased in World Stage Design 2013 & 2022 digital gallery, the USA-USITT Prague Quadrennial Gallery Exhibit (along with her student’s work), USITT and USITT Ohio Valley’s Peggy Ezekiel Board’s Choice Exhibit. Tammy’s designs have been seen on stages from New York City to the Midwest. Honesty co-authored, “The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Can’t Eat for Theatre, Film, and TV” published in 2018 by Routledge.
“I am thrilled to join the esteemed faculty in the School of Theatre and Dance,” Honesty said. “It is a great honor to return to my alma mater to continue developing artists. My time learning from Jaime Windsor cultivated the basic skills I had learned during my undergraduate degree and propelled me on a trajectory of a successful career as a scenic artist, scenic designer and educator. I look forward to continuing my career as a Mountaineer.”
Ryan Scoble is an award-winning actor, director and choreographer. He comes to WVU after serving as the Head of Musical Theatre at North Dakota State University where he taught all levels of musical theatre coursework, as well as directed and choreographed numerous productions including Annie, Edges, Dido & Aeneas, and Jekyll & Hyde.
Scoble also spent the past two years serving as the Managing Artistic Director of Gooseberry Park Players in Moorhead, MN where he directed and choreographed productions of Beauty and the Beast and The SpongeBob Musical. Outside of his educational credits, Ryan also served as a resident director/choreographer for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus for over four years.
As a performer, Scoble has appeared in four Off-Broadway shows in New York City as well as countless credits in regional theaters, concerts and cabarets. He is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association and is currently in the process of becoming a certified instructor of the Michael Chekhov Technique through the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.
Scoble received a B.M. in Vocal Performance (Musical Theatre) from New York University. He also holds two master's degrees - a M.S.Ed. with specialization in Educational Theatre K-12 from The City College of New York; and an MFA in Acting from Kent State University.
"I am beyond excited to be here at WVU and serving as the Head of the Musical Theatre Program,” Scoble said. “I aim to be a contributing force of change within the realm of musical theatre education.
“As an instructor, my goal is to foster the creation of well-rounded theatre makers who have a clear understanding of who they are as both humans and artists, and how to utilize their unique individuality to create a place for themselves within the professional musical theatre industry. I believe it is important to maintain the rigor of our past training models, while also taking time to care for students on a human level.”
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