Leigh Selting is currently Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wyoming, and a Professor, where he teaches acting, directing, stage combat, and acting for the camera. Also an Equity actor, free-lance director, and Equity stage manager, he has worked in various theatres around the country. Broadway credits include work as a production assistant on the 1996 Tony-nominated Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass, directed by Julie Taymor (Lion King), and as a production assistant/stage manager for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes starring Stockard Channing, and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien (Hairspray, The Full Monty). He also worked as the assistant to the director for the Toronto production of Shirley Valentine (starring Helen Reddy). Off-Broadway and regional credits as an actor include Little Heart, (with Michael Gross) a full development reading for the New Harmony Project, IN; The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Orphans, and Balm in Gilead, all for the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX; The Heiress for the Arvada Center in Denver, CO; the American National Theatre Academy's touring showcase with Marshall W. Mason, for both the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre in NYC and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Leigh holds the MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Idaho, and a BA in Secondary Education (Speech/Theatre and Journalism) from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is also a former member of the board of directors for the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association, and received their Presidents Award for outstanding and dedicated service.  In 1993, he was selected as a participant in the 25th Anniversary KC/ACTF Symposium on Acting led by Uta Hagen, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As a director, his productions of Marvin's Room, Dead White Males, and Frequency 98.6 were all selected as Region VII finalists for KCACTF, and he has the unique distinction of being the first two-time Regional Winner of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. Currently, he serves as the Vice-Chair for KCACTF Region VII, and is the Artistic Director of Snowy Range Summer Theatre, and particularly enjoys developing new work. The recipient of numerous extraordinary merit awards for teaching, research, and advising at the University of Wyoming, in 2006, Leigh was awarded the Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching award and selected as the Wyoming nominee for the national CASE Teaching Award. He was also appointed to receive the London Semester Professorship for Spring 2003, and the Seibold Professorship in 1996-97. Recently, he was awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence for his work as an acting coach. He is married to Marsha Knight, professor of ballet at UW, and has two sons, one step-son, and is proud to have batted .750 in the Broadway Show League!