ABOUT US
MEET OUR AMAZING TEAM
Jeryl Hoover, Returning Executive Director
A native of Odessa, Texas, Jeryl completed his undergraduate and graduate music degrees in Voice Performance from West Texas A&M (formerly West Texas State University), and a Doctorate from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1991.
A church minister for fifteen years, mostly in Austin, he and wife, Ruthann, and their three sons became Fredericksburg residents in 1996. All three sons graduated from FHS, and two (Ryan and his, wife Caitlin, and John and his wife, Mary Lou) are still Fredericksburg residents, along with three grandchildren, Eli, Molly, and Sadie. Third son, Thomas, and wife, Maggie, and grandson, Brooks, live just down the road in Buda.
Jeryl is the founder of Fredericksburg Theater Company, serving as Managing and Artistic Director from 1997 to 2011 during which he stage and musical directed twenty productions, stage directed seven, and played in eighteen.
In the interim between leaving FTC in 2011 and returning in 2024, he ran a county B&B business and served as Executive Director of the Gillespie County Historical Society and Pioneer Museum. He is the current mayor of Fredericksburg, having completed 4 terms.
