Barbara Braden Meyer
Professor of Theater
Education
M.F.A. California State University
B.A. Antioch College

   Barbara Braden Meyer is the full time design instructor for the Theater and Dance Department at Cypress College. She enjoys designing and painting scenery and props, designing and executing both theatrical and prosthetic makeup, and finds mentoring student designers to be a creative challenge. In addition to teaching design related courses she is an instructor for a general elective course, Introduction to the Theater.
   Barbara holds a BA from Antioch College and an MFA form California State University, Fullerton and is a member of United Scenic Artists (local 829).

Fred DePontee
Professor of Theater
Education

M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles
   Thou I may look like a reject from the cast of The Mikado I’m really and instructor in the Theater and Dance Department and the ACG Department, no, I really (and although they cringe whenever I say this) have an MFA from UCLA Theater Department.
   I teach Introduction to Theater, Stage Crew Activity, Stage Lighting, blah, blah, blah, and I’m the Theater Production Coordinator for Cypress College.
   I started as a dancer in Fiddler on the Roof (a bad dancer) when I was 16 and I’ve never looked back.