Stacie Martinsen graduated with a BFA/Theatre from SMU and a Master's in Education from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. She has been a Theatre educator for 26 years, most notably as the director at Carroll Senior High School, where she was the first high school in the world to premiere Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". She was a UIL One-Act Play regional finalist and first alternate to the State Meet on multiple occasions. Stacie has worked with the acclaimed Hudson Guild Theatre Company in Los Angeles under the direction of Jack Stehlin and has appeared on television in "Walker, Texas Ranger" with Chuck Norris and Lifetime's "Strong Medicine" with Janine Turner. Stacie was in Keller ISD from 2014-2021 as a lead Theatre teacher and District Curriculum Writer. She continued her Fine Arts teaching career in White Settlement ISD and is now teaching secondary Theatre at Westlake Academy in Westlake, Texas. Stacie has been a proud member of TTAO since 2016, TxETA since 2005, and SAG-AFTRA since 1990. Stacie is the mother of Aksel, who wants to work in the film industry as an editor in Los Angeles, California.