Established in 2019, Texas Tech’s improv troupe is rebranding. BFA musical theatre student, Thomas Schnaible, a member of Humor Us! said the new “post-Covid” world played a role in changing the name.
Kristi Franks is a proud alumna of Texas Tech University who graduated in 2003 with a BA in Dance and a BA in Communication Studies. She returned in 2020 and completed a MA in Dance Studies in 2022. An award-winning professor of dance at Tyler Junior College, Franks has become adept at juggling teaching, dance shows, lectures, travel, and family.
For five theatre students and their professor, Thanksgiving 2023 is not one they will soon forget. Instead of spending the holiday with their families, they were made to feel at home more than 6,000 miles away in Ankara, Türkiye, celebrating the American dinner tradition as guests of their newly formed friends from Bilkent University.