Alley Theatre
Mary Sutton has over 25 years of experience in the field of education and community engagement in the theatre industry. Mary started their career as a freelance teaching artist, where they explored various ways of linking theatre to communities in unique ways. Mary then joined TheatreWorks as the Director of Education, where they built an innovative theatre arts program that reached 39,000 students annually through in-school programs, student matinees, and community outreach. Currently, Mary Sutton is the Director of Education and Community Engagement at Alley Theatre since January 2013.
Mary Sutton obtained their Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Drama from New York University, where they attended from 1974 to 1978. Later on, they pursued and achieved an MFA equivalent in Directing from Harvard University's Advance Theatre Studies program, studying there from 1988 to 1990.
Alley Theatre
The Alley was founded over 70 years ago as Houston’s theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works – to provide the inspirational and the provocative – to make our audiences think, feel, dream, and be entertained. The Alley Theatre is one of the few American Theatre companies that supports a company of actors, designers, artisans and craftspeople throughout the year. Our productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the theatres themselves – that is state-of-the-art and one of the most complete and largest facilities of its kind anywhere. The mission of the Alley Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Melrose and Managing Director Dean Gladden, is to deepen the understanding of ourselves, one another, and the world we share by uniting theatre artists and audiences to experience the power of stories that illuminate the breadth and complexities of the human condition.