In his 15th  year of teaching and starting his 12th year at Industrial High School where he teaches Theatre Arts and Speech Communications. Mike Doggett is head of the Fine Arts Department, and Web Master for the district.  Before coming to Industrial, Mr. Doggett taught two years at Odessa High School and one year at San Angelo Central High School.

Receiving a bachelors degree in theatre and speech communication from Southwest Texas State University (1988) and his Masters degree in directing from Baylor University (1997), Mr. Doggett is a native of the Temple/Rogers area and graduated from Rogers High School in 1983.

Mr. Doggett has worked and directed professionally in Dallas with the Greater Tuna Corporation and at the Plano Children's Theatre.  He directed the world premiere production  of Salado Legends, an epic outdoor musical drama about the history and pre-history of Central Texas.  He directed the production for a total of 8 years. The production stars over 200 actors, technicians, and animals and is in it 15th year of performance. He has served as artistic director for Tablerock Amphitheater in Salado and  was on the board of directors for ten years.  Mr. Doggett has also worked professionally as the technical director at the Cultural Activities Center in Temple, Texas and was a member of the board of governors for the Globe of the Great Southwest, in Odessa, Texas. 

Mr. Doggett has directed over 80 plays and musicals throughout his career with actors from all levels (K-12, college, community, as well as professional levels). Mr. Doggett's students have experienced many successes over the past ten years in the area of prose interpretation (recently students won 2nd and 4th at the state prose interpretation contest),  and in the UIL one-act play contest, winning many individual acting and technical awards along with numerous advancing play awards. In 2000, his production of Picnic won third place at the Texas state one-act play contest in the 3A division and in 2004 his production of The Voice of the Prairie advanced to the state meet, in the 2A division.   His students have won the group technical award in all but one contest in which it has been awarded.  Mr. Doggett is also a member of the UIL Advisory Committee and is the Communication Chair for the Texas Educational Theatre Association.