Chip Egan is the dean of the College of Art at Clemson University and is past Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson. He received his BA in theatre from Hanover College and his MFA from Northwestern University. He has a wide variety of credits as a director, designer and actor, including the Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, NC; Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA; Idaho Repertory Theatre in Moscow, ID; the Historic Shuler Theatre in Raton, NM; Centre Stage, South Carolina and The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC; as well as several colleges and universities. For SCRC, he has directed The Gin Game, Grace and Glorie, Professional Skepticism, Yellow Dog Crossing, Tomfoolery and Almost Maine and appeared in The Good Doctor, Four Beers, The Drawer Boy, The Car and Greetings.

Chip is past president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference and also a past president of the South Carolina Theatre Association. In the 1970's, Pat Haskell and daughter Jan Haskell attended Clemson University and worked closely with Chip in the theatre department. In 1998, Chip was instrumental in the design of SCRC's new theatre on Beach City Road. Chip and his wife, Diane, have two children, Patrick and Erin.

Chip Egan (with Jim Stark and Nick Newell) in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healy. 2004

Tom Evans retired in 1999 after 32 years as the Chair of the Theatre Department at Hanover College in Indiana. As Chair, he garnered widespread recognition for developing the institution's theatre department into one of the nation's best amoungst liberal arts schools. During his years at Hanover, the program captured four national awards from the American College Theatre Festival, including two for staging original works by students. Tom is also a playwright who spent several years joining his wife, actress Barbara Farrar, in developing new plays at the Shenandoah International Play Retreat in Staunton, VA. In 1990, Governor Evan Bayh honored the pair with Sagamores of the Wabash for their contributions to theatre in Indiana. Tom's directing credits include work at Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, VA), Creede Repertory Theatre (Creede, CO), The Shuler Theatre (Raton, NM), The Warehouse Theatre (Greenville, SC), Fulton Opera House (Lancaster, PA), The Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN), New Playwrights (Washington DC) and Circle Repertory (New York, NY).

Tom has directed over 15 productions for SCRC, including W;t, Proof, Four Beers, The Drawer Boy, God’s Man in Texas, Rabbit Hole and Doubt. As a playwright, Tom's play Yellow Dog Crossing was produced to great acclaim as part of our 2005/06 season.

The ensemble of David Van Vleck's Four Beers, featuring Direction and Scenic Design by Tom Evans. 2004

Hank Haskell is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School. He was president and principal owner of Brunswick Yarns, a nationally known manufacturer and distributor of hand knitting yarns which was sold to Coats and Clark in 1995. Hank handles finances for SCRC.

Hank is also an avid writer with 4 books in print -- Sailing with the Salty Four, Brunswick’s Legacy, A Learned Man, W. Stewart Woodfill: Master of Mackinac's Grand Hotel, and The Art is the Thing, which is the inside story of SCRC from its inception in 1992 through a celebration of its first twelve years and 54 productions.

Hank Haskell, signing a copy of his book based on the Grand Hotel for SCRC's Artistic Director in 2001.

Pat Haskell founded South Carolina Repertory Company with her husband Hank in 1992 and has served as Artistic Director since. Under her leadership, SCRC has staged more than 75 productions, including a local tour of Driving Miss. Daisy (in which she also starred), the regional tour of Four Beers and the national tour of Professional Skepricism. Mrs. Haskell has directed, designed sound, scenery, costumes, props and starred in productions for SCRC that are too numerous to mention. She has also worked, both onstage and off, at The Warehouse theatre, Furman University, Clemson University, Clemson Little Theatre, Dunnagan's Alley Theatre and the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. She holds a BA from Furman University and an MFA from the University of Georgia and has worked as an interim instructor at Case Western University in Cleveland, OH.

Pat Haskell in AR Gurney's Love Letters. 2000

Blake White has appeared in SCRC's productions of Proof, Four Beers, Professional Skepticism, The Car, Foxfire, and Doubt. As an actor, Blake has worked with the Invisible City Theatre Company, Turnip Theatre Festival, Emerging Artists Theatre, Manhattan Comedy Collective and Caution: Artists at Work, all of which are in New York City. Regionally, Blake appeared on the stages of Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY), Actors Workshop of Boston (Boston, MA), River Run Theatre Co. (Madison, IN), Cider Mill Playhouse (Binghamton, NY), Mythmakers Theatre Company (Myrtle Beach, SC), and Upstate Shakespeare Festival and The Warehouse Theatre (Greenville, SC). Blake and his wife Peggy live on Hilton Head Island.

Blake White in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. 2008