Reeder Students and their Art

Dickson Reeder clowning around with his students during The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1956. Photograph by Lee Angle.
An unidentified student painting, The Tempest, 1984
Laura Banks as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1954. Photograph by Lee Angle.
Phyllis Banks as Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1954. Photograph by Carol R. Fraser.
Dickson Reeder and Olive Phillips make final adjustments to Richard Banks’costume as Mr. Titmarsh, The Rose and The Ring, 1953.
Phyllis Banks painted the lion from The Rose and The Ring, 1953
Lorca (far left) participates in a Reeder School rehearsal, 1980s. Courtesy of Diane Simons.
Lake’s birthday greeting to Flora Reeder, 1980s.
Puppet made by Lake Simons for TrioMolemo! Courtesy of Diane Simons.
Robert Anton painting one of his tiny, fingertip puppets. Photo by Bernd Uhlig. From Eileen Bluementhal’s Puppetry: A World History, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., n.d.

The Reeder Children's Theatre Presents...Memories of Fort Worth's Reeder School is presented by Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library.