DSHS hires new theatre director

Dripping Springs High School Principal Angela Gamez is excited to announce Jill Seader as the school’s new Theatre Director.

Seader joins Dripping Springs High School after five years of teaching high school and middle school theatre in Arizona. Most recently, she served as a theatre teacher at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, where she led the program to superior rankings and produced multiple school productions each year.

In 2022–23, Seader taught both theatre and English at the New School for the Arts & Academics in Tempe. She began her career as a resource teacher at Combs High School in San Tan Valley where she created a unified theatre course for students in the crosscategorical classroom that integrated students of all abilities with general education students.

Seader holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Education from the University of Northern Colorado.