Between balancing her responsibilities as executive coordinator of the Brownwood Education Foundation, music director of the Lyric Theatre and mother of three children, 38-year-old Danielle Rosborough says plenty busy.

The 2008 Howard Payne graduate moved back to Brownwood in 2016, and just recently moved into her role with the Brownwood Education Foundation.

“I’m working with the board and getting some new ideas and things off the ground that haven’t quite been there since COVID,” she said. “They hired me to come on and coordinate some things and it’s been amazing to get to see how the money is used that is given to the BEF and how it’s used toward the students and BISD with the grants they give out to teachers. They also use money to award teachers at the end of the year. We had the awards ceremony June 1 and that was really fun. The teachers are done with school and have been nominated or chosen by peers or the central office for different distinguished teacher awards. They get recognition and a little money from the BEF.”

The most rewarding aspect of her BEF position, according to Rosborough, are the students and “getting to see all of the activities they get to do because of the grants that they wouldn’t have gotten access to otherwise. The teachers are so willing to put in applications for grants because they see how the kids thrive from STEM and Tinker things that are hands on, exciting and new. They just love it.”

Rosborough roots’ with the Lyric Theatre go back to before the renovated facility reopened.

“I was one of the Lyric interns before they even had the building,” she said. “They were still performing at Howard Payne’s theaters and Brownwood High School, that was my introduction. My husband and I went off and got our music degrees out of state and came back after he got the job at Howard Payne as Director of Choral Activities.”

As for her role as music director of the Lyric, Rosborough said, “I am in charge of coordinating the hayride series, the Memories concert series, the Dale Wheelis Memorial concert series, which is four concerts a year that bring in folks from out of town and give us a culture and level of musicianship that we don’t currently have, but we strive to be and see and want to go see. The next one is Ballet Magnificat, a Christian ballet company that is internationally known. I’m also in charge of finding musical directors for all of the musicals we have here and I’m lucky that I get to pick the ones I want to do and then assign folks available to do the others.”

Rosborough serves as the musical director for “The Addams Family Musical” which has its final four performances this weekend.

“It is amazing, such a great show,” she said. “The music has been the toughest and the best part, but the hardest things are the best things. That’s what this show really shows, people who have invested an amazing amount of time and energy to bring this to life off the page, and it is beautiful. It’s funny, it has some tender moments, it’s really a fantastic show.”

In her role as music director, Rosborough has, “learned the other side of things and that has changed my perspective so much in that I get to work with incredible people that volunteer their time so willingly. That’s become my new favorite thing, working with the chorus, working with the soloists, and creating beauty that would never have come alive otherwise. I always tell them it’s black and white on the page and you are literally bringing this to life. It doesn’t exist without you. It’s so inspirational to watch them grow.”

Danielle and her husband Chris have been married for 15 years and have three children – 8-year-old Gwendolyn, 6-year-old Britt David, and 18-month-old Emory.

“They are the joys of our lives,” Rosborough said. “I have no doubt that they will likely be in music, at least involved somehow. A well-rounded person takes on some music and academics and some kind of physical activity.”