Kathy Abelanet has been with The Center for Home Education since 2006. Throughout the past 32 years of her career, she has taught in private and public institutions, most recently rhetoric and competition at UTA. She has a B.S. in Secondary Education with teaching fields in English and Spanish, an M.A. in English, and is currently finishing her PhD dissertation at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has taught English, Spanish, reader’s theatre, Spanish reader’s theatre, rhetoric, composition, literature, Shakespeare, and play writing. Her Spanish reader’s theatre performed at the Watauga Public Library and the North Richland Hills Library over several years. At the Cottage Theatre, she produced "Six Men and a Room," "The Empty Seat," "Bunker Down," the trial scene from Shakespeare’s "The Merchant of Venice," "Grandmaster," "A Shakespeare Medley," and several reader’s theatre productions. She has also successfully coached the Center’s students in competitions at the University of Dallas’ annual Shakespeare monologue competition from 2017-2019, with her students winning back to back second place awards. In 2024, her students entered The Stolen Shakespeare Guild’s Monologue Competition, where one placed second and all of the Center’s students received scholarships to the Shakespeare Acting Workshop. Most recently, she has directed adult community theatre with productions of "Recommended Reading for Girls" in 2022, and "Drinking Habits" in 2023.