Creative Team

DeeAnne Meece is thrilled to be returning to the Spectacular Follies spring show. She has been the Artistic director since 2014.

DeeAnne is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but has lived in Dallas, Texas since 1976. She is an accomplished singer and actress and has performed with many celebrities including Bob Hope, Dolly Parton, Larry Gatlin, B.J. Thomas, Johnny Cash, Glenn Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Tommy Tune, Sandy Duncan, and Jimmy Webb to name a few. She has sung national commercial jingles for General Motors, Nabisco, State Farm Insurance, Dairy Queen, Southwest Office Systems, Six Flags and many more.

DeeAnne has played leading roles in equity and non equity regional theatre productions and some of her favorites include: Music Man, Oklahoma, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Sound of Music, and The King and I to name a few.

Ms. Meece was a principal performer for over 20 years with Incredible Productions, a Dallas based entertainment agency and Corporate Event Production Company.

DeeAnne was crowned Ms. Texas Senior America 2025 and went on to win the national title of Ms. Senior America 2025–2026 at the pageant in Atlantic City in October 2026. Even with these honors, DeeAnne considers her greatest accomplishments—and greatest blessings—to be her two amazing sons, David and Matthew, who have given her two wonderful daughters-in-law and six precious grandchildren.

DeeAnne continues to coach singing and do studio recording sessions. While DeeAnne resides in Dallas, Texas, she and her family produce shows at their theatre: The Historic Savannah Theatre in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia. 

​Amy Cave (Choreographer) is the owner and director of Amy’s Studio of Performing Arts and the Artistic Director for Resolute Theatre Project. Ms. Cave also founded a non profit The Playhouse Collective to utilize the arts to promote life skills for both youth and seniors. She is a member of the Texas Association of Teachers of Dancing and serves as a Tap Examiner. In addition to choreography, she also directs plays and musicals and works as an intimacy coordinator and fight choreographer in DFW..

She has choreographed for The Firehouse Theatre, Theatre Frisco, Runway Theatre, GPAC, JPAS, Lewisville Playhouse, MainStage Irving and L.I.P. Service Productions, as well as industrials and local schools. In addition she choreographs for the Miss Texas Volunteer pageant, and Miss Texas Senior America, Miss Texas and Miss Texas contestants. Ms. Cave is also a choreographer and instructor for Casa Mañana School for Musical Theatre.

Some of her favorite productions include The Drowsy Chaperone, Hello, Dolly!, Oklahoma, She Loves Me, 9 to 5: The Musical, Disaster the Musical, Pippin, and Billy Elliot.

Passionate about new works development, she produces and directs workshops, staged readings, and full productions of new musicals and plays.

Scott is excited to be designing another show for Specular Follies.  He has been with the company since 2013.  His work has been seen with other local theatre companies like Uptown Players – Theatre Three – Stage West – Contemporary Theatre – Jubilee – Garland Summer Musicals and WTT to name a few.  Scott is the Managing Director and Co-Artistic Director for Lyric Stage and Director of Production for Turtle Creek Chorale.  He started his career with The Dallas Opera and The Santa Fe Opera and soon moved on to design for dozens of Theatre, Dance, and Choral companies while managing the technical needs of the Addison Theatre Centre for over 22 years.  Scott is a graduate of The University of Texas, Arlington.  

RODNEY DOBBS (Set Designer) has been actively involved in the Dallas Theatre scene since 1977. He co-founded the Pocket Sandwich Theatre with Joe Dickinson in 1980 and retired from there as Artistic Director and Resident Set Designer in 2021. He has done hundreds of set designs for theaters all over the metroplex and been nominated for several scenic design awards and even won a couple of them! From 1995 until 2009, he taught Technical Theatre at Greenhill School and has since taught as an adjunct at 2 local colleges. Recent and upcoming set designs include: “Fiddler on the Roof” for Garland Summer Musicals; “Working” at Theatre Frisco and “The Curse of the Mummy” for Garage Door Theater in Pilot Point, which he also wrote and directed. Rodney is happy to be back for another year of “The Spectacular Follies.”

This is Cari’s third show serving as Stage Manager for the Spectacular Follies and she is having the BEST TIME!! Cari has been married to her high school sweetheart, Jarred, for 29 years. They have a beautiful and talented daughter, Sydni Kaye, who is a recent graduate of SMU and who is currently a multi-skilled journalist for KCEN TV in Temple, TX. Cari has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with a minor in Women’s Studies, from Texas Woman’s University and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from UTA.

Cari has always been a fan of musical theater and is excited to be a part of this very special production! Her journey began when she was recruited to be the “Costume Mom” for her daughter’s 7th grade production of ‘Shrek the Musical’, and she then found herself happily volunteering in several capacities for every single production until Sydni graduated! She has experience in costuming, volunteer coordination, box office management, hospitality, and serving as the DSM judge liaison.

Cari is honored to be the Stage Manager for the Spectacular Follies 2026, and wants to thank her family for their encouragement and support. Break a Leg!