Theatre
Ruth Cordell serves as Webb's Theatre Director. A recognized actress with 45+ years of experience in television, film and theater. Cordell works closely with Webb students as a Director of Theatre Production, Introduction to the Theatre, Speech teacher, and ITS Troupe Director. Under her direction Webb students have been invited and accepted to perform in the American High School Theatre Festival at the internationally acclaimed "Fringe Festival" in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011 (The Rivals) and again in 2024.
A member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Cordell has a professional background in classical dance, corporeal mime, and ballroom and is an avid equestrian. Cordell has performed the leading ladies of Shakespeare’s canon for multiple seasons with Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival in SoCal, Webb’s own Tennessee Shakespeare Festival 2008-2011 and has performed locally with Franklin’s Studio Tenn and at TPAC with Nashville Repertory Theatre's productions of I Hate Hamlet, The Goat or Who is Sylvia (Nashville Scene’s 2008 Masterpiece Award), Steel Magnolias (also with Studio Tenn), Cabaret, All My Sons, Rapture Blister Burn, The Clean House and the regional premiere of Posterity.