Jayne Decker, Artistic Director for The Sandy River Players and Instructor of Theatre, is an award winning playwright who has directed numerous productions at UMF Alumni Theatre.    Some of her most recent directing work includes the musicals Fiddler on the Roof and Oliver! and productions of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind.  Jayne has also presented workshop productions of her original plays Stars Falling (winner of the 2002 Maine Playwriting Award), Jelly Moonshine, and a touring play about the Iraq War, Songbird.  Her most recent script, Cracked Shells, a play about domestic violence, was commissioned by Franklin County Health Network’s Peace in Our Families.   Jayne teaches courses including Introduction to Theatre, Social and Political Theatre, Creative Dramatics and Writing for the Stage and Screen.