Theatre Director
CLAY WHEELER is excited to be teaching at his Alma Mater (PSHS Class of 2004)! This is Clay's fourth year as Theatre Director at Plano Senior High School, but he's been a theatre director in Plano ISD since 2011. He teaches Theatre 1, 2, 3 & 4, Unified Theatre 1 and Theatre Productions 3 & 4. Last year's UIL OAP production of The 39 Steps earned numerous awards. Beauty and the Beast, last year's musical, also earned nominations for the Schmidt & Jones High School Musical Theatre Awards.
Mr. Wheeler began his teaching career at Haggard Middle School, where he spent three years teaching theatre and speech. He then spent five years running an award-winning and nationally recognized Theatre Department & Speech Team at Schimelpfenig Middle School. Under his tenure, the SMS theatre department placed four consecutive years at UIL One-Act Play Competition, and the Speech Team won a National Award of Excellence in Speech as well as back-to-back City Championships. Most recently, he served as the Theatre and Technical Theatre Director at Vines High School. In his two years at Vines High School, the theatre department earned the top award at the PISD High School One-Act Play Competition both times!
Clay earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Baylor University in 2008. While at Baylor, he focused in Acting, Directing & Playwriting.
When not at school, Clay is an actor and improviser and has appeared in productions with WaterTower Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, Theatre Three, Stage West and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others, and is the recipient of multiple DFW Critics Forum Awards. He is also a voice actor for Funimation where he's been featured on dozens of projects, including My Hero Academia, FairyTail, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul, Black Clover and many others.
Clay is a Plano native and attended Plano schools from K-12th grade, graduating from Plano Senior High School in 2004. Clay lives in the DFW area and is the proud husband of Jennifer and father of Winnie & Junie (and fur-dad to Ginny).
Technical Theatre Director
ABBY HOGAN was born in Plano, TX! She has eight successful years of experience in theatre build & design.
She received her Bachelor of Arts: Theatre Design and Technology degree with an emphasis on Scenic Design from the University of Arkansas (Woo Pig!). As a Frisco native, Abby is familiar with Plano and the greatness it asks of its students and is proud to have a place where she can encourage students to exceed their potential.
For as long as she can remember, she has loved creating and helping others. By pure chance, Abby discovered theatrical design unintentionally as she was told it was required for a class she wanted to take. From that moment she knew that this was what she needed to do. At university, she was the Scenic Designer and the Assistant Scenic designer on 4 shows as well as the painter and carpenter on numerous others.
While in college, Abby rescued a Pit Bull named Montana and the two have become inseparable since. Her love of theatre prompted her to do a study abroad in London where she saw countless shows on and off the West End. Abby also saw The Lion King on Broadway when she went on a family trip that opened her eyes to the world of theatre. In her free time, Abby enjoys kayaking and spending time with her family and friends.
Ms. Hogan is so excited to start the school year teaching at Plano Senior High! Go Wildcats!