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 most recently crowned Ms. Texas Senior America, 2025 and will compete in Atlantic City next October in the Ms. Senior America pageant. DeeAnne does consider however, her greatest accomplishments (as well as her greatest blessings), to be her two amazing sons, David and Matthew, who have given her 2 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 is the owner and director of Amy’s Studio of Performing Arts and the Artistic Director for Resolute Theatre Project. 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.

She has choreographed for The Firehouse Theatre, Theatre Frisco, Runway Theatre, GPAC, JPAS, 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 Teen 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, 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 1978. 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 theatres 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 also taught as an adjunct at 2 local colleges.  Recent and upcoming set designs include: “Catch Me if You Can” for Garland Summer Musicals; “They’re Playing our Song” at Theatre Frisco and “Seussical” for Garage Door Theater in Pilot Point, which he also directed. Rodney is very pleased to have yet another opportunity to work on “The Spectacular Follies.”

Jill has been a cast member, soloist, and member of The Groovy Ladies in the Follies family since 2010. Jill has served as a member of the Executive Board for The Spectacular Follies since 2018, assists with the sound system and emceeing for “Taste of the Follies” appearances, and is one of the musical assistants to Director, DeeAnne Meece. She has performed with local community theatre groups – Family Music Theatre and Repertory Company Theatre. She sang 19 seasons with the Dallas Symphony Chorus and is now performing with Voces Pacis, a choral ensemble associated with her alma mater, Dallas Baptist University. She is active with her church, Highland Country Fellowship. Jill is proud to share the stage with so many gifted entertainers and thanks God for the gifts and opportunities to do so.

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Working with DeeAnne Meece and the creative design teams is a dream job for this ol’ professional Project Manager! Hard to believe it all started in 2008 when Mark Carroll, Follies co-founder and then Executive Artistic Director, needed help finding lyrics on the Inter net. With each show, her role as Assistant to the Artistic Director has increased in both size and dimension. Pat has enjoyed every minute of both learning from and working with the design team and every member of the cast.