David Coffee '79 (MFA '82) (left, above) was the recipient of the 2012 Elston Brooks Lifetime Achievement Award from the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County. Created in 1992, the award is named for the longtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram theater critic and columnist. Past recipients have included Bill Garber (1992), Mel and Katie Dacus (1993), Johnny and Diane Simons (2001), Rudy Eastman (2002), Joe Stecko (2010) and Linda M. Lee (2011).

Coffee has long been a favorite of the local theater scene, playing in area venues that include Casa Manana, Circle Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and the Granbury Opera House. The end of the year will see his eighteenth performance as Scrooge in the Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol.

Coffee appeared this year in the Trinity Shakespeare productions of The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The award was presented by TCU Theatre Chairman Harry Parker (right, above). Parker and Coffee were undergrads together at TCU.

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