Director. Résumé. 

Directorial Experience

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As a stage director, Phillip Sprayberry has numerous credits which include drama, comedy, musical theatre, musical revues, and opera for professional, regional, and community theatre. But his greatest rewards come from a four-decade career in educational theatre. He directed the New Jersey professional theatre premieres of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, An American Daughter, and Moon Over Buffalo. Other directorial projects include, Master Class, Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, The Merry Widow, Oklahoma!, and West Side Story. At Kean University, Sprayberry directed The Laramie Project and Stop Kiss, among others. Projects for William Paterson University included Agnes of God, Independence, The Magic Flute, and The Pirates of Penzance. At Manhattan College, he directed The Diary of Anne Frank In Montgomery he was commissioned to create a multi-media revue to honor the 175th anniversary of the State of Alabama and the City of Montgomery, 175 Years and the Dream Goes On . . . , for opening night ceremonies at the Alabama State Fair.

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Directorial Résumé

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FREELANCE PROFESSIONAL  •  GUEST DIRECTOR:

 

The Fantasticks  •  William Paterson University

The Pirates of Penzance  •  William Paterson University

The Magic Flute  •  William Paterson University

Collage!  •  Music Department Extravaganza, William Paterson University

Alice: An Evening with the Tart-Tongued Alice Roosevelt Longworth  •  Dramatists Guild, NYC

Disenchanted  •  New Jersey Playwright’s Competition  •  William Paterson University

The Little Dog Laughed  •  Pride Theatre of New Jersey  •  Kean University

Red State, Blue State  •  New Jersey Playwright’s Competition  •  William Paterson University

Ten Percent Revue  •  Pride Theatre of New Jersey  •  Kean University

Lonely Planet  •  The Ledge Theatre Company/Villagers Theatre

The Twilight of the Golds  •  Pride Theatre of New Jersey  •  Kean University

The Merry Widow  •  Village Light Opera  •  Ron Noll, Maestro

Blithe Spirit  •  William Paterson University

A Streetcar Named Desire  •  The Ledge Theatre Company/Villagers Theatre

Madama Butterfly  •  Opera at Florham  •  Thomas Bo, Maestro

Bye Bye Birdie  •  The Roche Players

9 Months: Inside Out  •  William Paterson University

Agnes of God, William Paterson University

M. Butterfly  •  The Ledge Theatre Company/Villagers Theatre

Corpus Christi  •  Kean University

The Pirates of Penzance  •  Village Light Opera  •  Ron Noll, Maestro

The Laramie Project  •  Kean University

Independence  •  William Paterson University

The Diary of Anne Frank  •  Manhattan College

Stop Kiss  •  Kean University

Master Class  •  Booker T. Washington Creative and Performing Arts Center

The Last Night of Ballyhoo  •  Summerfun Theater (NJ professional theatre premiere)

An American Daughter  •  Summerfun Theater (NJ professional theatre premiere)

Moon Over Buffalo  •  Summerfun Theater (NJ professional theatre premiere)

Carousel  •  Chattanooga State College

Annie Get Your Gun  •  Signal Mountain Playhouse

Hello, Dolly!  •  Chattanooga State College

 

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ENCORE DINNER THEATRE:

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The Star-Spangled Girl

Oklahoma!

Arsenic and Old

West Side Story

The Pirates of Penzance

Some Enchanted Evening

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Carousel

The Miracle Worker 

The Mousetrap

ROSE: A Southern Lady (Premiere performances of a play by Southern writer Wayne Greenhaw)

Foxfire

 

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COMMUNITY THEATRE:

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The Gifts of the Magi  •  Carriage Hill Players

Song of Singapore  •  Benefit production for Carver Creative & Performing Arts Center

Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show  •  Montgomery Little Theatre

The Diary of Anne Frank  •  Chattanooga Circle Theatre (Recipient of annual Directing Award)

The Star-Spangled Girl  •  Chattanooga Circle Theatre

 

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EDUCATIONAL THEATRE:

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Anne of Green Gables  •  Carver Creative & Performing Arts Center

Brigadoon  •  Faulkner University

Show Boat  •  Faulkner University

Camelot  •  Faulkner University

Spoon River Anthology  •  Carver Creative & Performing Arts Center

The King and I  •  Boyd-Buchanan School

Hello, Dolly!  •  Boyd-Buchanan School

Our Town  •  Boyd-Buchanan School, Faulkner University

Carnival  •  Boyd-Buchanan School

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown  •  Boyd-Buchanan School

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STAGED READINGS (New Jersey Playwrights Contest)

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Worst in Show  •  by Eileen Deutsch

Vaudeville Reunion  •  words/music by John & Tony Tomaine, book by Tony Tomaine

Daybreak  •  words and music by Bobby Cronin

Disenchanted!  •  music, lyrics and book by Dennis Giancino

I Wanna Be Famous, or Bavarian Rage  •  by Kal Wagenheim

A Larger University of the Unfortunate Condition of Humanity  •  by S.W. Senek

Red State/Blue State  •  by Gregory Jones

End of the World Button  •  by S.W. Senek

Give the Bass Player Some  •  by John Watts

Nine Months: Inside Out  •  by S.W. Senek

 

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REVUES  •  VARIETY SHOWS (Many)

 

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CHORAL GROUPS:

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C’est JAZZ (five years)

Vocal jazz ensemble and instrumental combo

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Performance Troupe (three years)

Official performance vehicle for Carver Creative and Performing Arts Center

 

Hope Hull United Methodist Chancel Choir (one year)

Interim Choir Director

 

Faulkner University Concert Choir (six years)

30-voice mixed choir

Official public relations tool for University recruiting; 25 - 40 performances annually

 

Encore! (six years)

Faulkner University’s 15-voice mixed show choir, 20 performances annually

 

Boyd-Buchanan Concert Choir (eight years)

Official public relations tool for Boyd-Buchanan School 40-voice mixed choir

 

 

WORKS CREATED, DEVELOPED, AND DIRECTED:

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Jazz Cabaret Series  •  Awarded grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts to present a Jazz Cabaret Series at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival featuring New York professionals: Nancy Marano (Manhattan School of Music); Thos Shipley, (MAC Award-winner for Best New Male Jazz Singer/“Miss Saigon”); Anita Hollander (New York actress and cabaret singer)

 

175 Years: and the Dream Goes On …  •  A multimedia musical revue commissioned by the Montgomery Advertiser and the South Alabama State Fair to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the City of Montgomery and the State of Alabama

 

Pastiche

Musical revue created in collaboration with choreographer/designer Gary Moore as a tour show for singers

and dancers

 

Basically Broadway

Musical revue created as a benefit show for schools and civic groups

 

Holiday Pops Concert

Annual holiday concert featuring elementary - senior high school students and orchestra

 

Olde English Holiday Dinner

Annual holiday project with choirs, soloists, instrumentalists, actors - nine performances each season

 

The World is a Rainbow

Annual variety show involving kindergarten-college students

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