News & Events
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.
