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Published by Ashton Byrum

ASHTON BYRUM is the new Director of the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma. For eight years, he was coordinator of the Musical Theatre Performance program, earned tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor, and served as Associate Chair & Academic Director for the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago. After a long acting career in New York and around the world, he earned his MFA in Directing from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2010. He’s had the privilege of working with students that have gone on to Broadway, National Tours, Regional and stock theatres, theme parks and cruise ships all over the country. He’s directed Hello, Dolly!, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at The Little Theatre on the Square, [title of show] and The Marvelous Wonderettes at Open Door Theatre, Bye Bye Birdie and Annie Get Your Gun for the Wilmette Starlight Theatre; Anything Goes, Orpheus Descending, Urinetown and Godspell at CCM, and Rent, Victor/Victoria, Oklahoma!, Once On This Island, and Sweet Charity as well as several Freshmen/Senior Showcases for Columbia College Chicago. His acting credits include three seasons on Broadway in Susan Stroman’s annual A Christmas Carol with Tim Curry, F. Murray Abraham and Jim Dale, and the National Touring companies of The Producers (US and Tokyo), Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel, Grease! With Adrian Zmed, Sutton Foster and Marissa Jaret Winokur, Will Rogers Follies with Larry Gatlin, I Love New York, and My Fair Lady (Europe). Ashton has played roles in regional and stock productions around the country including: The Music Man and 9 to 5 (Little Theatre on the Square), The Spitfire Grill (Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Arkansas Rep.), Forever Plaid (Flat Rock Playhouse, NC), Joseph…Dreamcoat and Cats (Ogunquit Playhouse, ME), West Side Story (Westchester Broadway Theatre, NY), Kingdom (Denver Center Theatre Company), and The Secret Garden (Paper Mill Playhouse). He’s been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1995. Originally from NC, Ashton and his wife Gina now live in Norman, OK, with their 9 year-old son, Dylan.

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