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Student Successes

Spring 2008

Derek Bever, Aaron Mann, and Emily Todd worked at the Huron Playhouse in Ohio during summer 2007. Bever was an electrician and rigger; Mann acted in productions and was a member of the crew; and Todd worked on costume construction.

Senior Jessica Butler played the role of Audrey in the recent Fort Wayne Civic Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors and was a player in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Pops Concert in December.

Brent Bruin was awarded a certificate of merit for his work as stage manager for the play Story Theatre by the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in April 2007.
Jessica Butler, Breona Conrad, Adam Hamilton, Blane Pressler, Tamara Ricketts, Jessica Sisson, Brett Tubbs, and StephanieVanderwall were among the Irene Ryan Award nominees and their acting partners who competed in the Region III Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) in Milwaukee in January. Nominees included Pressler, nominated for The Crucible, with partner Butler; Ricketts, nominated for More Fun Than Bowling, with partner Tubbs; Sisson, nominated for More Fun Than Bowling, with
partner Hamilton; and Vanderwall, nominated for The Lark, with partner Conrad.