Billy Dragoo teaches theatre at Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, where he is also Fine Arts Department Chairman. Previously he taught Theatre Arts at Granbury High School and Arlington Bowie. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas and a Master of Arts in Drama and Theatre Studies from The University of London. His students at Granbury made two trips to the State Meet in 1988 with And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson and 1989 with Black Angel. He placed third in Conference AAAA in 1988. In thirty-five UIL contests, his students have garnered the Best Actor or Best Actress Award twenty times. His students' 2005 production of The Speed of Darkness played on the main stage at the Texas Thespian Festival in Corpus Christi, and is one of only ten productions in the U.S. and Canada to be selected as a main stage show at the International Thespian Festival in June of 2006. Awards and honors include twice being named Austin High School Teacher of the Year (1997 and 2003), Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study (1989), and an English Speaking Union International Globe Center Scholarship (2002), which allowed him to study in London under renowned director Louis Fantasia.


Anna in the Tropics

The Laramie Project

Rivers and Rivines

Ghetto

Equus

Reckless