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Rains High School Theatre Arts

Director's Page

Christopher Collins, A.S., B.A., M.A., and Director of Theatre Arts at Rains High School, has been an educator for over nineteen years, having taught from the Kindergarten to the university level. Starting as an English and history teacher, Mr. Collins gradually found a desire to act and to direct and teach theatre. He has written nearly twenty plays, about a dozen of which he has been produced and two of which have been performed for UIL One-Act Play competition. His play, Pariah, won the Texas Educational Theatre Association’s Playwriting Contest for 2006. Over the past fifteen years or so, Mr. Collins has directed approximately twenty-five plays in school, church, and community playhouse settings. A few of the plays he has directed have been The Crucible, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love is Murder, The Shadow Box, Why Do We Laugh?, The Rivers and Ravines, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rhinoceros, Little Shop of Horrors, Oklahoma!, Mrs. Birdsong's Second Death, Moon Over Buffalo, Black Angel, Greater Tuna, and On Golden Pond . He was also the co-founder and artistic director of the Piney Woods/Carpe Diem Arts Festival. In addition to teaching, he conducts educator workshops on a variety of subjects for various school districts and for Region VII Education Service Center. His topics include Gifted Education, Higher Order Thinking Skills, Depth and Complexity, Differentiation, Writing Across the Curriculum, Genius Thinking, Writing for Success, and many more. He has been a guest speaker twice at LeTourneau University and twice at ETBU on the topic of playwriting. Mr. Collins plays the piano, sings, and writes music as well. He has loved the stage since playing the Grinch in “How the Grinch Stole Spring” in first grade.

For Christopher Collins's personal and professional site, visit ponderlake.com.