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November 2020: Travis is nominated for BroadwayWorld Central Virginia's Arts Educator Of The Decade. Several of the noteworthy productions he directed and choreographed were nominated, including Next To Normal and Spring Awakening for Best Production Of A Musical Of The Decade and A Christmas Story, Spring Awakening, and Mamma Mia for Best Ensemble Of The Decade. |
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October 2020: Archival footage from Travis' direction of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow in 2017 was featured as part of the Virginia Theatre Association's 2020 Fall Conference. Following the streamed footage, Travis moderated a talkback with the actors, reflecting back on the production three years later. |
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August 2020: Travis served as Lighting Designer for Mill Mountain Theatre's Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical. After two weeks of quarantine and two rounds of Covid-19 testing, the company rehearsed and recorded the production to be streamed free-of-charge to community partners and schools. |
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June 2020: Travis co-directs and choreographs the virtual production of Disney's High School Musical Jr for Mill Mountain Theatre. Rehearsals were done entirely over zoom, then songs and dances were recorded individually by the cast. Travis edited the footage together to create the final streaming performance. |
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February 2020: For the 4th year in a row, Travis directs for Mill Mountain Theatre's Write Stuff!, a festival of staged readings of new plays written and developed by middle and high school students. Travis served as director and playwriting mentor for two new works: Okay by Caroline Moledor and The Third Wheels by Ava Lazar. |
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January 2020: Travis is named to The Roanoker Magazine's 2020 Class of 40 Under 40 in the Roanoke Valley. Applicants were judged not only by their career achievements and leadership, but also on their involvement in the community as the next generation of Roanoke Leaders. |
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December 2019: Reflecting back on three and a half years as Director Of Education with Mill Mountain Theatre, education class programming has expanded under Travis' leadership. The fee-based educational class sizes have increased by 102% in the last three years. MMT Education has seen an increase of total students served through onsite classes, community engagement, and the free masterclass series from 2,887 in 2017 to 4,970 in 2019 - an increase of over 72% total students served. |
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September-October 2019: Travis adapts and directs Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet for Mill Mountain Theatre. |
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August 2019: Travis directs and choreographs Let's Go To The Movies for Mill Mountain Theatre's Music Series. |
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July 2019: Travis choreographs Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr. on Mill Mountain Theatre's Trinkle MainStage. see production photos |
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June 2019: Travis serves as director for Next To Normal, part of Mill Mountain Theatre's Waldron Fringe Series. see production photos |
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May 2019: Travis directs and choreographs the Music Of The 60's concert for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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March-April 2019: Travis directs Mill Mountain Theatre's Mamma Mia! on the Trinkle MainStage. see production photos |
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January-February 2019: Travis serves as Faculty Directing Mentor for Hollins University's production of Shane Strawbridge's Marvelous Cornelius. |
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January 2019: Travis is nominated for Best Director Of A Musical for his direction of Me+You Productions' Spring Awakening for Los Angeles' 33rd Annual Robby Awards. The production was also nominated for Best Musical. |
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December 2018: Travis directs Nancy Ruth Patterson's The Christmas Cup for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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November 2018: Travis directs Nancy Ruth Patterson's A Simple Gift for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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August 2018: Travis directs and choreographs Spring Awakening for Me + You Productions at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. see production photos |
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August 2018: Travis directs and choreographs Shrek The Musical TYA for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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June 2018: Travis directs and choreographs Spring Awakening for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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May 2018: Travis serves as Production Designer for The Tempest and Mother Goose Tales for Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory. |
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October 2017: Travis directs The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow for Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory. see production photos |
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August 2017: Travis directs The Best Of Broadway: The Songs Of The 2000's for the Mill Mountain Theatre Music Series. see production photos |
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July-August 2017: Travis directs and choreographs Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Jr for Mill Mountain Theatre. see production photos |
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June 2017: Travis adapts and directs The Jungle Book for Mill Mountain Theatre's touring apprentice company. see production photos |
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February 2017: Travis directs for Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory's Write Stuff!, a festival of staged readings of brand new works written and developed by middle and high school students. |
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January-February 2017: Travis and Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory partner with the History Museum of Western Virginia on Patchwork, a devised play about growing up in Appalachia. see production photos |
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November-December 2016: Travis returns to the stage to perform in Irving Berlin's White Christmas for Mill Mountain Theatre. |
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October 2016: Travis directed "The Haunting," a site-specific murder mystery dinner theatre experience at the historic Fishburn Mansion. This piece was a co-production with Mill Mountain Theatre and Roanoke Parks And Recreation. |
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September 2016: Travis's children's musical DOTTY DOT hits Rochester Fringe, produced by RAPA, Rochester Association Of Performing Arts. |
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August 2016: Travis traveled across the country to Roanoke, Virginia to join the Mill Mountain Theatre team as Education Associate. |
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June-August 2016:
Travis returned to Summer Repertory Theatre to direct The Little Dog Laughed and associate direct and choreograph Nice Work If You Can Get It. see production photos |
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May 2016: Travis directs and choreographs Evita at the Barclay Theatre for the University of California - Irvine's MainStage season. see production photos |
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May 2016: Travis served as directing mentor for Brown Bag Theatre Company's production of Octavio Solis' Lydia at the University of California - Irvine. |
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February-March 2016: Travis directs and choreographs Sondheim's Marry Me A Little for Theatre Out. see production photos press |
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November 2015:
As a teaching artist, Travis coordinates and directs "Our Stories" for Culverdale Elementary School's after-school enrichment program. see production photos |
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May-August 2015:
Travis joins the Summer Repertory Theatre family for its 2015 season, serving as Assistant Director for South Pacific, Assistant Director and Choreographer for Peter And The Starcatcher, and Director for the Company Cabarets. photos from South Pacific photos from Peter And The Starcatcher photos from the SRT Company Cabaret |
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June 2015: Travis directs the staged reading of Ashley Laverty's new Theatre For Youth play, Nadine's Coloring Book, for NYU-Steinhardts's New Plays For Young Audiences. see production photos |
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May 2015: Travis' children's musical, "Dotty Dot," has its Arizona premiere at Brelby Theatre Company. |
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April - May 2015: Travis directed Shakespeare's The Tempest, at the University of California - Irvine, as part of the "Shakespeare Shorts Festival." see production photos |
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March - May 2015: Additionally, he helped to coordinate the Shaken Shakespeare project, a group believing that Shakespeare belongs to everyone and devoted to spreading Shakespeare to the UCI campus-at-large through "pop-up" Shakespeare performances. |
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February - March 2015: Travis directs BABY: The Musical at the Little Theatre, University of California - Irvine. see production photos |
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December - January 2014: Travis serves as assistant director, under Martin Benson, for Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man at South Coast Repertory. see production photos |
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November - December 2014: Travis directs to Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding in the Nixon Theatre, at the University of California - Irvine. see production photos |
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October - November 2014: Travis serves as assistant director to Annie Loui on Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, for the University of California - Irvine's Claire Trevor School Of The Arts. see production photos |
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August 2014: Travis directs the world premiere of Erica Bennet's new play with music, Bender, at Chapman University's Moulton Center Studio Theatre as part of Orange County's New Play Festival, OC-Centric. see production photos press |
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June - August 2014: For the New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Travis serves as assistant director for Romeo & Juliet, as well as House Manager and Properties Supervisor for the festival. see production photos |
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August 2014: Travis teaches theatre and directs Creative Kids Playhouse's production of Rumpelstiltskin. |
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June 2014: Travis teaches theatre and assistant directs for Creative Kids Playhouse's production of Jack And The Beanstalk. |
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April - June 2014: Travis directs Fifth Of July, by Lanford Wilson, in the Robert Cohen Theatre for the University of California, Irvine - Clair Trevor School of the Arts. see production photos |
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March - May 2014: Travis is assistant director for Shakespeare's As You Like It in the Robert Cohen Theatre at the University of California, Irvine - Clair Trevor School of the Arts under the direction of Jane Page. see production photos |
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February - March 2014: Travis directs David Mamet's Oleanna for the University of California, Irvine's Nixon Theatre. see production photos |
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February 2014:
Travis is production assistant for the workshop of the world premiere of Rachel Bonds' new play, Five Mile Lake, at South Coast Repertory. |
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January - February 2014: Travis acted as Directing Mentor for Proof, by David Auburn at the University of California, Irvine's Nixon Theatre. |
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January - February 2014: Travis was lighting designer for Sarah Kane's Crave at the University of California, Irvine. see production photos |
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December - February 2014: Travis served as assistant director for Tony Kushner's Angels In America for the University of California, Irvine - Claire Trevor School of the Arts, directed by guest artist Gavin Cameron-Webb. see production photos |
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December 2013 - January 2014: Travis assistant directed the world premiere of South Coast Repertory's Trudy And Max In Love, Or That Forever Feeling (an affair in twenty-four scenes) by playwright Zoe Kazan, directed by Lila Neugebauer. see production photos |
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November - December 2013: Travis directed a staged reading of Matthew Lopez's new play, Reverberation, at The University of California - Irvine's Grotowski Barn. see production photos press |
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October - November 2013: Travis completed the direction of his first graduate school production - Thorton Wilder's The Happy Journey To Camden And Trenton - at The University of California - Irvine's Nixon Theatre. see production photos |
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September 2013: Travis landed on the west coast and began graduate school to pursue his Masters of Fine Arts in DIrecting at the University of California - Irvine! |
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July - August 2013: Travis returned to the beautiful Berkshires to assist lead instructor Jennifer Yarro in teaching Frog Lotus Yoga's 200-hour yoga teacher training, as well as teach for the studio. |
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April - August 2013: Travis directed the newest cast of Dotty Dot: A New Children's Musical. The production ran in New York City at the Secret Theatre for a full year (Travis also co-wrote the book and lyrics for the musical). |
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February - May 2013: Travis participated in Yoga Vida's advanced yoga instructor Mentorship Program, studying under senior teacher, Lindsay Hilscher. |
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January - June 2013:
Travis returned to New York City to teach theatre, direct, and choreograph for Inside Broadway. |
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November & December 2012: Travis traveled to Koh Samui, Thailand to study yoga under Vidya Jacqueline Heisel and Jennifer Yarro, as part of Frog Lotus Yoga International's Advanced Teacher Training. |
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September - November 2012:
Travis toured in The National Theatre for Children's production of The Energized Guyz (U.R. Fired, The Sneaker, Thunderstorm, Bert The Dirt Expert). see production photos press |
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July & August 2012: Travis concludes his time at Roxy Regional Theatre as Charles "Chachi" Arcola in Happy Days: A New Musical, based on the hit television show. see production photos press |
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August 2011 - August 2012: For the Clarksville Yoga Community, Travis taught Vinyasa Flow and Hatha yoga classes at the Roxy Regional Theatre and Natalie's Dance Network, as well as hot vinyasa flow at Radiant Yoga. |
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June 2012:
Travis choreographs for "The Chase" in the Roxy Regional School Of The Arts' 101 Dalmations. He teaches dance, improvisation, and theatre games for the Roxy Regional School Of The Arts Summer Internship and their Parks and Recreation summer session. |
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May 2012:
Travis returned to the Roxy in the hit musical comedy (based on the movie by the same title), The Wedding Singer (Mookie, Bum, Priest, Father, Perfect Man, Imelda Marcos). see production photos press |
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April 2012: Travis choreographed for Austin Peay State University's Opera Theatre production of Gallantry: A Soap Opera, as well as joined the company as a featured dancer. |
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April 2012: For a second time, Travis choreographed the spring musical for North East High School; this year's production was Just Another High School Musical. |
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March 2012: Travis takes on four roles, playing all the hustlers in Gross Incecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde at the Roxy Regional Theatre's theotherspace. |
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January & February 2012:
Travis rang in the new year playing multiple roles in the brand new children's production of Happily Ever After (Shoemaker, Hedgehog, Dwarf, Hansel, and Cat). see production photos |
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February 2012: Travis worked behind the scenes as the assistant director for the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. |
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November & December 2011: Travis returned to the A Christmas Carol cast again this year, reprising his roles as Fezziwig and Christmas Present, as well as Solicitor. see production photos |
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November 2011:
Travis portrayed Young Doctor Manette (and others) for Roxy Regional Theatre's production of the classic novel A Tale Of Two Cities. see production photos |
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November 2011: Travis played various roles in this special, one-night-only performance of Standing On Ceremony, The Gay Marriage Plays at Roxy Regional Theatre. |
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October 2011: Travis returned to the Roxy stage to play the Stranger (and others) in The War Of The Worlds. |
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August & September 2011: Travis spent August at Frog Lotus Yoga's 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program and returned to teach Slow Flow/Hatha-style yoga classes at the Roxy Regional Theatre and Natalie's Dance Network, as well as teaching dance at both locations. |
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June & July 2011: Travis starred as the title role in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Roxy Regional Theatre. see production photos press |
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June & July 2011: Travis taught dance (musical theatre, jazz, & lyrical) and yoga for several dance camps in the Clarksville, TN area. |
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June 2011: Travis was an emergency replacement for Huck in Big River at Roxy Regional Theatre. see production photos |
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June 2011: Travis' musical theatre jazz class presented their Spring Dance Informance at Roxy Regional Theatre. see production photos |
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May 2011: Travis choreographed Northeast High School Theatre Department's The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux. see production photos |
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April & May 2011: Travis' performance in Wildhorn's epic musical The Civil War gains him a mention in the Broadway World review. see production photos press |
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April 2011: Travis was in the regional premiere of Bea(u)tiful In The Extreme (Charbonneau, John Adams, Dr. Rush, Colter, Boatman). see production photos |
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March 2011: Travis recieves a shout out in the Leaf Chronicle for his take on Guildenstern and Osric in Hamlet. see production photos press |
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January & February 2011: Travis played a myriad of roles (Rumplestiltskin, Big Bad Wolf, King, Chancellor, and Flounder) in Once Upon A Time. see production photos press |
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December 2010: Travis took on the roles of Fezziwig, Christmas Present, Schoolmaster, and Mrs. Dilber in A Christmas Carol. see production photos |
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November 2010: Travis receives a glowing review for his portrayal of Passepartout in Around The World In 80 Days. see production photos press |
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October 2010: Travis took a bite out of the role of Arthur Holmwood in Frank Wildhorn's Dracula, The Musical at Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville, TN. see production photos |
