Paul Baker

Healing thoughts to all of Paul's family & friends. A great family man, a great friend and a great Beta Kappa brother.

To you Mr. Baker, Alabanza! Praise!

To his family, my condolences and best wishes.

I studied with Paul Baker at the Dallas Theatre Center in the late 1960s. It was a transformative and challenging time of my life that forged all future work to come as a playwright and a novelist.

I thank you, Mr. Baker, for your tough stance and your unerring eye. You allowed me to look at myself anew and it was hard, very hard to reconcile the dream with the reality. I...

I enrolled in Dr. Baker's class called, "Tntegration of Abilities" in 1954. He challenged me to become a puppeteer and my television career began in Waco with a puppet called P.J. Possum.
In 1955, I moved to Fort Worth and met up with Hilda Cohen, a graduate of TCU. In 1957, we started a children's TV Show called Mickey and Amanda starring Mickey Mud Turtle and Amanda Possum. It became the number one children's program from 1958 to 1962. I moved to Los Angeles in 1966 to appear on...

Dr. Baker headed up the theater program at Baylor University when I was a student in 1958-59, where I took the required humanities class under his tutelage. I appreciate the efforts he took to make theater a major part of the curriculum at that time. My condolences to his family.

November 7, 2009. It was while I was in the program at DTC (73-76) that I 'discovered' teaching. Mr. Baker and the company at DTC broke open the provincial Baptist box I was in to roam free on a new landscape of the heart. What I learned from him in class--and the times I lived in my little space behind the house in SA--the quirky, odd, and wonderfully inspiring conversations with him encouraged and stretched me.Traces of Mr. Baker's influence are everywhere in what I do for work and for...

I studied at Baylor theater for two years in 1957-1959. Not the least of Paul Baker's numerous achievements was his assembling of that first remarkable faculty at Baylor University's theater department. It included the great and powerful Juana de Laban, the patient Gene McKinney, the challenging Mary Sue Fridge, and many others. What an astonishing group of individuals Mr. Baker put together to actualize his unique theatrical vision! And this creative explosion happened in the (Baptist)...

What a privilege to have known Mr. Baker and to have worked with his great company at Dallas Theater Center. I was in awe of him when I was there, 1973-1976, and I remain so today.

What a tremendous influence he had on so many students, writers and artists literally around the world.

Condolences to all the family.

My mother Gay Wilson Turner, was a very close friend & did prints and drawings for Paul & KItty & the various productions. I also baby sat Robin & I look forward to seeing her in Midsummernight's Dream later this month. Gay died in 1996 after successfully chairing the art history department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,Virginia for many years.I'm sure she is enjoying Paul's company. I loved my course:Integration of Abilities and have used what I learned from Paul for over 55 YEARS....

Paul Baker is the reason I am in theater. His influence on me and countless other students and artists is immeasurable . His legacy will live on through us.

My thoughts are with his wonderful ,talented family and with all those who have had the adventure of working with him.

Sincerely,

Synthia Rogers

Upper School Theater Director

Greenhill School