TAP enjoys the guidance and support of a very involved Board of Directors, 100% of whom contribute financially to TAP each year. Our board reflects a diversity of cultural backgrounds, income and experience, and includes a school counselor, a family physician, a development officer, a health initiatives coordinator, and several entrepreneurs. Many of TAP’s board members are personally involved in theatre arts and education.

Randall S. Braddock (Chair)
Counselor, Hays County Impact Center

Randall is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience working with at-risk youth. In addition, he holds a B.S. in Education from UT-Austin and an MA in Counseling from UT-Permian Basin.In 2004, while working at the Hays County Independent School District Impact Center, Randall discovered the outstanding work TAP was doing in conflict resolution. As part of the Impact Center’s collaboration with TAP he worked with TAP teaching artist to train peer mediators. Since then he has tried to contribute to and support TAP in everything they do. He has served on TAP’s Board of Directors since 2004.


Amber Walter (Vice-Chair)
Event and Wedding Consultant

Born and raised in Texas, Amber left at eighteen to learn everything about musical theater. She received her B.F.A in musical theater the University of Arizona. She worked as a professional actress and singer in New York and L.A. and recorded two albums for Texas World Records. Upon returning to Austin, Amber helped launch the SilverStar Theater Group. She ran SilverStar for three years and then moved on to begin working for Austin’s premiere wedding and event coordination company. Amber has worked for three wonderful years and has produced and coordinated over 45 events. Amber joined the TAP board in 2004 because she wanted to support their innovative, high quality theatre arts programs for children.


Richard J. Smalling (Treasurer)
President, American Innovations, Ltd.

Rich is originally from New York but escaped as soon as he left high school. He has an engineering degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He and his wife Anne moved to Austin in 1994 and (hopefully) will never leave. Rich is President of American Innovations, a provider of niche technology to the oil and gas industry. Rich is past President and Finance chair of the Austin chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Rich has served on TAP’s Board of Directors since 2003 and has been president since 2004. He became involved with TAP because he wanted to use his business skills to help grow a dynamic non-profit organization serving children in Central Texas.


Gregory S. Perrin (Secretary)
Assistant Director of Development, College of Liberal Arts

Gregory has been involved in theater for almost twenty years and has directed, produced and/or performed in more than twenty plays and commercials. However, he is most proud of his accomplishments as a playwright. Gregory was the first commissioned playwright of the Fiesta First Ward Children's Theater Project produced by Theater LaB Houston. He has studied with Edward Albee, a three time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, who selected one of his plays for the Edward Albee Playwrights' Workshop. Gregory also has extensive experience in nonprofit management and fundraising. Gregory joined TAP’s Board of Directors in 2005. He enjoys working with TAP because he believes that TAP is impacting the lives of thousands of children in a meaningful and transforming way.


Karen Sullivan

Bio to come.


Kathleen Juhl

Kathleen Juhl, MA, MFA, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She teaches acting, voice and movement, the Alexander Technique, performance studies, theatre for social change, and feminist studies. She chaired the Feminist Studies Program, 2001-2005 and was Brown Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2001-2004. She has published in Text and Performance Quarterly and Theatre Topics and has a book about teaching theatre called Radical Acts coming out in the spring 2007. Her primary interest in theatre is theatre for social change.


Aseante Scales

Bio to come.