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EPISODE · Aug 20, 2026 · 56 MIN

S2E19 Jo Rowan

from This Town OKC · host Rick Allen Lippert

Show business entertainers who can dance, sing, and act are called "triple threats." Before Oklahoma City University created it in 1980, there was no university in the USA that taught students how to succeed in the industry. Lots of schools had wonderful programs to create dancers or singers or actors, but it was Jo Rowan and her husband John Bedford who put it all together, along with the business aspect, and established the top school in the nation. And it stemmed from a photograph. The baseball-loving tomboy from Kentucky, who was told that she found her passion for ballet too late in life to be successful, spent years on Broadway and touring the world before landing in This Town. Her awards and accolades could fill a book. And she's going!Post-production by Fred O. BishopSponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre

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