Ty Lawrence is a retired Production Stage Manager who stage managed for Dallas Summer Musicals Academy of Performing Arts and other youth theatre organizations. DSM Academy provided professional musical theatre training for ages 6 - 22 through fully produced musical theatre productions such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid as well as Pippin, Grease, and The Music Man and other original works. As PSM, Ty coordinated all rehearsals, production team schedules, designed and built costumes, props, and set pieces and called the shows.