Richelle Thompson Thompson-Pridmore

After graduating CHS, much to everyone's surprise (including my own...) I stayed in Cedar, and went to SUU. I graduated with a degree in technical theatre with emphasis in Audio and Stage Management. With changing my major/minor as well as taking the scenic route, I graduated in spring of 2001 - about the same time as several of my friends were getting their masters degree. Ha!

Around school, I worked for Metalcraft for just over a year, worked with lots of local performing groups, and had a taste of owning my own business - thanks but no thanks! Theatre seemed to be the thing - I worked for the Utah Shakespearean Festival most summers between 1994, and 2002 - first on stage crew, then in stage management, electrics, and finally sound. After graduating SUU, and a year of freelance work and a few bad short term jobs, I interviewed with and was offered a job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and in October of 2002 was exported to the deep south. Talk about culture/climate shock! AT UAB, I was the sound designer and master electrician for the theatre department until January of 2007, when I was offered the resident sound designer position at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. I spent two months working for both UAB and the Festival, then settled in to ASF full time.

In November of 2008 I married a southerner, Jeff Pridmore, in Birmingham Alabama. We have a fur herd but no kids.

I decided to go back to school, and in 2015 we moved to Austin, TX. Jeff is working at Winding Road Racing and I had to figure out how to be a student again. I will graduate from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest on May 22, and later in the summer of 2018, we'll be moving back to Alabama.

The two things that come to mind are Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - the drama department production my junior year of which I was over-involved, and being the editor for the first video yearbook - a good idea, but a very tragic undertaking!