Wheeler, Clay

Mr. Wheeler is proud to teach at his Alma Mater (PSHS Class of 2004)! This is Clay's fifth year as Theatre Director at Plano Senior High School, but he's been a theatre director in Plano ISD since 2011. He teaches Theatre 1, 2, 3 & 4, Musical Theatre, Unified Theatre 1 and Theatre Productions 3 & 4. Last year's UIL OAP production of The Sweet Science of Bruising earned numerous awards. Shrek: The Musical, last year's musical, earned several nominations for the Schmidt & Jones High School Musical Theatre Awards and won the Broadway Dallas High School Musical Theatre Award for Outstanding Stage Management.
 
Mr. Wheeler began his teaching career at Haggard Middle School, where he spent three years teaching theatre and speech. He then spent five years running an award-winning and nationally recognized Theatre Department & Speech Team at Schimelpfenig Middle School. Under his tenure, the SMS theatre department placed four consecutive years at UIL One-Act Play Competition, and the Speech Team won a National Award of Excellence in Speech as well as back-to-back City Championships. Most recently, he served as the Theatre and Technical Theatre Director at Vines High School. In his two years at Vines High School, the theatre department earned the top award at the PISD High School One-Act Play Competition both times!
 
Clay earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Baylor University in 2008. While at Baylor, he focused in Acting, Directing & Playwriting.

He is a Plano native and attended Plano schools from K-12th grade.

​Course Information is found on Google Classroom.

If you have a student in Mr. Wheeler's class, and you would like to be invited to join as a parent, please email him at clay.wheeler@pisd.edu. If you are a student, you have already been added to his Google classroom.