CSM Theatre Members Nominated for Regional Titles
Kennedy Center seen from the Potomac River.
Fourteen CSM Theatre students were nominated for awards at the Regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 46 Jan. 14-18. The current and former students have earned the chance to win scholarship money and professional theater opportunities.
Students will be competing in Region II, which includes colleges located in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Northwest New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, DC, and West Virginia. Representatives from The College of Southern Maryland will attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region II in West Chester, Pa., at West Chester University.
Nominations for technical awards include productions “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” “Stop Kiss,” “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery,” “The Clumsy Custard Horror Show” and “Working.” Jeremy Hunter of La Plata, Simone Hannah of Waldorf, Kendal Garton of Hollywood, Alex La Clair of La Plata, Barbara Wheeler of Indian Head, Annabel Russell of Waldorf and Jamie Borroughs of Mechanicsville will represent these productions at the festival.
Technical award winners are presented with opportunities such as working with a professional theater company in a major city for one or two weeks, or traveling all-expenses-paid to the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s national conference.
The festival has also nominated several individuals for the regional Irene Ryan Acting Award which provides a $500 scholarship to winners. Regional winners move on to the national festival where they will compete with winners from 11 other regions to be considered for one of two national awards, each providing a $2,500 scholarship.
Regional nominees from CSM are Aimee Grace of White Plains, Amanda Jo Connelly of Indian Head, and Danielle Nicole LeDoux of Indian Head from “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” Alexis Miller of Gambrills, Kenny Waters, Jr., and Kaytlin Medley of Waldorf from “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery,” and Laura Stephens of Waldorf and Alex La Clair of La Plata from “Working.”
For information about CSM’s theater programs, visit www.csmd.edu/Arts.
