More than 20 students from the South Carolina School of the Arts at 午夜剧场 received regional nominations for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Awards.
According to Dr. David Sollish, chair of the 午夜剧场 Department of Theatre and Dance, a KCACTF respondent came to view the Theatre and Dance productions 鈥淟ettice and Lovage鈥� and 鈥淕uys and Dolls鈥� during the Fall 2021 Semester and nominate students. Those students then can go to a regional Kennedy Center festival to compete, and if they win the region, they head to a national competition in Washington, D.C., with the potential of winning a scholarship.
The following students were nominated:
Lighting Design – Jenna Grigsbee
Scenic Design – Katherine Bates
Stage Management – Hannah Henriques
Sound Design – Lydia Seremba
Dramaturgy – Ashleigh Martin
Assistant Directing – Alexis Morehead, Max Milian
Allied Crafts – Adeline Wiggins, Regan Densmore and John Verzwyvelt
Irene Ryan Nominee – Spencer Dulin, Shelby Parker
Costume Design – Mhairi Henderson
Sound Design – Michaela Newton
Stage Management – Anna-Grace Ray
Scenic Painting – Alexis Morehead
Pops Design – Regan Densmore
Costume Crafts – Alessa Gibbons
Assistant Directing – Christian Woodall
Irene Ryan Nominee – Laurel Moran
Irene Ryan Nominee – Lydia Clark
Started in 1969 by Kennedy Center founding chairman, Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center American College Theater is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.