The Cottage Theatre
@ The Center for Home Education
The Cottage Theatre
Making exceptional theatre accessible since 2007.
Our Story
Founded in 2007, The Cottage Theatre at the Center for Home Education is a theatrical academy that continues to stir the imaginations of performers and audience members alike.
In addition to theatre and vocal classes, the Cottage Theatre produces two main productions each school year, both musicals. There are also summer camps of varying lengths and topics. The student cast receives professional direction in all areas needed to perform a full dramatic production. Musical productions include vocal instruction. The student crew acquires the skills to support all areas of a theatrical production, including set design, lighting, and sound.
Meet The Team
LACY BUCY
Theatre Director
Lacy Bucy was homeschooled her whole life, going on to do dual credit and CLEP testing for college, being able to complete her bachelor's in humanities in 2 1/2 years.
Her background in theatre spans back to age 7, and includes being a member of her homeschool drama group, a homeschool traveling theatre company, and her local children's theatre, where she acted in many lead roles, stage managed, and directed several full productions. In her adult years she has been a part of The Promise in Glen Rose, and had a role in the Play Write class at the Center in 2022.
Lacy also really enjoys sewing, and art of many different mediums, and has created full body costumes from scratch.
At home, she has an awesome husband, Judah,
a beautiful daughter named Maisie,
3 dogs, a guinea pig, and two sweet pigs!
Camille
Abelanet-wang
Musical Director,
Technical Coordinator
Camille Abelanet-Wang attended the Center for Home Education from 2008 until her graduation in 2017, where she performed in, managed, and assistant directed upwards of 40 productions. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2021 at the University of Denver with an honors thesis that is currently in the process of being published. She finished her Master of Arts in Linguistics in 2024 and hopes to continue in the field and get her PhD.
Throughout her ten years participating in the Cottage Theatre, she was instilled with a love of all things theatre, from the stage to the tech booth to backstage and beyond! She is ecstatic to be working at The Cottage Theatre, especially in an administrative capacity, where she can help make everyone's experiences magical!
Dr. Kathy Abelanet
Adult Production Director
Kathy Abelanet has been with The Center for Home Education since 2006. Throughout the past 32 years of her career, she has taught in private and public institutions. She has a B.S. in Secondary Education with teaching fields in English and Spanish, an M.A. and a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has taught English, Spanish, reader’s theatre, Spanish reader’s theatre, rhetoric, composition, literature, Shakespeare, and play writing. Her Spanish reader’s theatre performed at the Watauga Public Library and the North Richland Hills Library over several years.
At the Cottage Theatre, she produced Six Men and a Room, The Empty Seat, Bunker Down, the trial scene from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Grandmaster, A Shakespeare Medley, and several reader’s theatre productions. She has also successfully coached the Center’s students in competitions at the University of Dallas’ annual Shakespeare monologue competition from 2017-2019 with her students winning back to back second place awards. In 2024, her students entered The Stolen Shakespeare Guild’s Monologue Competition where one placed second and all of the Center’s students received scholarships to the Shakespeare Acting Workshop. Most recently, she has directed adult community theatre with productions of Recommended Reading for Girls in 2022, Drinking Habits in 2023 & 2024, and Drinking Habits 2 in 2024.
Donna Jones
Executive Director