Phillip Sprayberry Email Address

Media Relations Coordinator

Star Services is the UAE's leading supplier of primarily oil and gas, petrochemical, engineering, technical and non-technical, and administrative manpower to an impressive range of multi-national corporations, companies, and UAE government departments. Star Services also plays a major role in providing diverse positions for other demanding projects related to construction and large infrastructure, alternative energy, security, education, and transportation. As a result of its stellar 25-year history of providing quality personnel to quality companies, Star Services has become one of the UAE's top manpower providers. Our strong brand enables us to attract the best candidates, while our thorough screening among a host of considerations, allow us to select the right candidates for any set of hiring requirements. Most importantly, however, the Star Services team of HR experts, lawyers, accountants, and support staff do more than just oversee recruitment and hiring. We anticipate and take every conceivable step to ease the especially unique bureaucratic burdens that can be experienced by employers in this region who take on new staff.

After a twenty-plus year career in arts education in the South, Phillip Sprayberry moved north to continue his career as a freelance stage director and to serve as adjunct professor of communication and musical theatre, and also as media relations coordinator in public relations for William Paterson University. Now retired from the University’s marketing and public relations department, Sprayberry teaches, directs, writes, and is a wedding celebrant. As an educator of four decades, Sprayberry was lead teacher for the arts at B.T.W. Magnet High School, Montgomery, Alabama’s nationally recognized arts magnet high school, and he created the highly successful Encore Theatre and served as music and theatre chairperson at Faulkner University. Earlier he was the music and theatre director at Boyd-Buchanan School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In New Jersey, he was also public relations director for Summerfun Theater, a professional summer stock theatre formerly in Montclair. In younger and thiner days, Sprayberry performed on local and professional stages singing and acting in dinner theatre, community and regional theatre and opera. Some of his favorite roles include the Baker in “Into the Woods,” Mordred in “Camelot,” Guiseppe Zangara in “Assassins,” Man One in “Oh, Coward,” Señor Perelli in “Sweeney Todd,” and Sparky in “Forever Plaid.” He translated his stage experience into a directing track and has directed more than 100 musicals, non-musicals, and revues in educational, community, and professional settings. Sprayberry is the author of “All I Ever Needed was the Music: A biography of Ed Kleban, lyricist of ‘A Chorus Line’” and is working on a business and social communications book to help college students transition from the classroom to the workplace.