Chris Sackett
Chris Sackett co-founded the Ashland Country Dancers in 1978 teaching
in a format developed by Carl Wittman. Since that time he has taught
or co-taught the weekly Scottish and English Country Dance class in Ashland.
In 2010, he and his wife Brooke Friendly published Impropriety III, their
third volume of country dances.
Training in country dance Chris has received includes sessions at Pinewoods and Mendocino dance camps, Fort Warden Scottish dance camps, RSCDS classes in Vancouver, B.C. and Heather and the Rose dance camps. He has great appreciation for the training he has received from Carl Wittman, Bruce Hamilton, Mary Murray, Gene Murrow, Ron Wallace and Helene Cornelius.
Chris has over 25 years of professional experience in the performing arts. Chris has designed lighting for the Britt Festivals, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Snowmass Festival of American Theater and is resident lighting designer for the Dance Alliance of Southern Oregon. He holds a B.F.A. from Southern Oregon University and an M.F.A. in lighting and sound design from the University of British Columbia. He has been a theatre faculty member at SOU since 1987 where he teaches sound classes, lighting design, play reading and supervises production. He is currently serving as department chair. He has been theatre consultant for a variety of construction projects including the remodeling of the 750 seat Craterian Theater in Medford. The Oregon Arts Commission acknowledged his work with non profit producing and arts service organizations with the Community Service Award for 1995.