Mr. Slee is the new theater teacher at DaVinci Academy. He grew up on a little farm in Pennsylvania and moved to Utah eight years ago. Prior to DaVinci he lived in Morgan, Utah.

He came to DaVinci because he loved how new it was and wanted to build a program from the ground up. He had also driven past the school a couple of times and thought it look really cool on the outside; he was curious about what it looked like on the inside.

“I love how DaVinci is a combination of old and new," Mr. Slee said.

He started a career in theater in because he wanted to explore the world and explore the way that people thought.

“I wanted to tell people stories, essentially at the heart of theater is a story. Good theater is about good story telling. And these stories come from people around us and I wanted to tell those stories and bring those stories to the stage.” Mr. Slee said.

Mr. Slee is the producer of “Echoes of American Slavery,” a play that tells the story of slaves as they are sold to the highest bidder on the auction block. This shows aspects American slave life on plantations in the 1860s. The script for the production was compiled directly from transcriptions of more than 2,300 interviews and 500 photographs from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writer's Project compile in 1936 and 1938, archived at the Library of Congress (for more information vistit
http://www.ldsgenesisgroup.com/uvsc.html).

Mr. Slee wrote this play when he was a sophomore in college and it is still playing throughout the country.

Mr. Slee is happily married with three kids of their own and one foster child. Mr. Slee would like it if his children were involved in theater, but he said, “Any parent would love for their kids to choose what they have chosen for a career, but I think that . . . I’m fine with whatever my kids decide to do.”

Mr. Slee has many plans for DaVinci’s theater department. This year he plans to produce the musical "Sweeney Todd" as the fall production. He would also like to get the students into more competition though out the state and nationally.