Mr. Larry W. Cure
Director of Theatre
James Martin High School

Mr. Cure has been a theatre director at Martin High School since the school opened in 1982. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Wesleyan College in Ft. Worth in 1976 and a MEd degree from North Texas State University in 1980. Before coming to Martin, Mr. Cure taught at Azle High School for six years.In the past 27 years, the Martin theatre program has taken 12 plays to the State UIL One Act Play contest in Austin. In 1990 and 1999, Martin's One Act Play took 2nd place at State and in 1996 and 1998, Martin won the State Championship. Mr. Cure was selected Martin High School Teacher of the Year in 1990 and received the Southwestern Bell Denius-UIL Award for Outstanding Sponsor in 1999. In 2003, Mr. Cure was honored as one of twelve teachers in Texas to receive the UT Texas Exes Outstanding Teacher Award. He has also been an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College-Southeast Campus teaching Fundamentals of speech Communication and Business and Professional Communication for the past 14 years. He has been married to his wife, Terri, for 34 years and has two children. Cassie (MHS Class of 2002) is a recent graduate of Lycoming College in Pennsylvania and Cameron (MHS Class of 2005) is a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Mrs. Sharon Kaye Miller
Assistant Theatre Arts Teacher
James Martin High School

Sharon Kaye Miller has taught Theatre Arts at Martin High School for a total of 8 years with Larry Cure. This is her 24th year to teach. Mrs. Miller received a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from Howard Payne University in Brownwood in 1978. She was in the 1975 charter summerstock company of the Granbury Opera House in Granbury, Texas where she worked professionally for 4 seasons. Mrs. Miller also has a major in Speech Communications and has coached UIL debate teams to the state level. Mrs. Miller has directed or co-directed fourteen UIL One Act Plays, two of which have gone to state. Mrs. Miller has three children, Bo, 30, Lauren, 28, and Patti, 20, and two grandsons, Kaden, 4 and Rocco, 3. She has been married to her husband, Michael, for 24 years.