Royal R. Brantley Department Head, Regents Professor of Theatre Office: Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex, Room 103
Email: rbrantley@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2799 Professional Profile Brantley is a professor of theatre and head of the Department of Art, Theatre and Dance at West Texas A&M University in Canyon.
His academic training includes a Bachelor of Arts from West Texas State University, a Master of Fine Arts from Trinity University and a professional internship with the Dallas Theater Center.
Brantley is past-president of the Texas Educational Theatre Association and a member of the TETA Adjudicators' Organization. As an educator and theatre artist, Brantley has been recognized as the recipient of the Greer Garson Theatre Arts Award, the Mortar Board Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the 1997 Texas Educational Theatre Association University Educator of the Year Award, the 1997 WTAMU Teaching Excellence Award, selection to the 2000 Texas A&M University Academy and, in 2004, he became the third faculty member in the history of WTAMU to receive the honor of Regents Professor as awarded by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Teaching and Related Service Brantley teaches directing, theatre history, introduction to theatre and acting. In the area of service, he serves on the board of directors of the Lone Star Ballet of Amarillo and the board of directors of the Texas Educational Theatre Association. Research and Creative Activity As a theatre director at WTAMU, Brantley has directed over 70 productions and in five years of American College Theatre Festival participation, garnered three Respondent's Choice awards, four Directors' Choice awards and a National Festival Finalist Award in 1997 for his production of The Homage That Follows by Mark Medoff.
Professionally, Brantley has performed with the Dallas Theater Center (Deathtrap, The Three Musketeers, Tartuffe and The Three Penny Opera) and the musical drama TEXAS. Additional directing credits include the outdoor drama TEXAS and creative consulting off Broadway for the new musical, American Story. | 
