FESTIVAL 55 REGIONAL & NATIONAL
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
REGIONAL AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Kennedy Center Gold Medallion- Baron Kelly
Kennedy Center Gold Medallion- Jimmy Noriega
ATHE/KCACTF Innovative Teacher- Bryan Vandevender
Road Warrior- Micheal Swanson
| Program | Awardee | School | Award Language | Show (if applicable) |
| Dramaturgy | Arushi Grover | Pennsylvania State University | LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award | Brigadoon |
| Dramaturgy | William Adams | Pennsylvania State University | Honorable Mention in Production Dramaturgy | Cabaret |
| Dramaturgy | Miriam Colvin | Pennsylvania State University | Honorable Mention in Production Dramaturgy | Cabaret |
| Dramaturgy | Madelyn Barkocy | Adelphi University | Honorable Mention in Production Dramaturgy | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Dramaturgy | William Adams | Pennsylvania State University | KCACTF Region 2 Lobby Display Award | Cabaret |
| Dramaturgy | Arushi Grover | Pennsylvania State University | KCACTF Region 2 Dramaturgy Program Note Award | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| Dramaturgy | Miriam Colvin | Pennsylvania State University | The KCACTF Region 2 Lobby Display Award | Cabaret |
| DTM | Kailyn Shalosky | Muskingum University | Regional 1st Place Lighting Design | The Secret in the Wings |
| DTM | Tyler Parsonage | Slippery Rock University | Regional 1st Place Sound | Pride and Prejudice |
| DTM | Victoria Naftal | West Chester University | Regional 1st Place Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology | Into the Woods |
| DTM | Melissa Garber | Adelphi University | Regional 1st Place Stage Management Fellowship | This is Our Youth |
| DTM | Victoria Naftal, Giulia Pagano, Madelyn Ebersole | West Chester University | Don Childs DTM Cross- Discipline Collaboration Award | Into The Woods |
| DTM | Roman Hicks | West Liberty University | Jane Childs DTM Legacy Award | Peter and the Starcatcher |
| DTM | Alexis Favia | Adelphi University | Regional 2st Place Lighting Design | Antigone |
| DTM | Nyred Jackson | West Chester University | Regional Honorable Mention Scenic Design | Eurydice |
| DTM | Riley Oberting | Adelphi University | Regional 2st Place Sound Design | The Trojan Women |
| DTM | David McDonald | Muskingum University | Regional Honorable Mention Sound Design | The Secret in the Wings |
| DTM | Giulia Pagano | West Chester University | Regional 2st Place Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology | Into the Woods |
| DTM | Paige Stone | West Chester University | Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology Honorable Mention |
Spring Awakening |
| DTM | Heather Hernandez | Howard Community College | Regional 2st Place Stage Management | Romeo and Juliet |
| DTM | Sadie Bossons | Lycoming College | Stage Management Regional Honorable Mention: Distinguished Prompt Book | The Treatment |
| DTM | McClain Leong | Rochester Institute of Technology | DTM/RED Stage Management Regional Honorable Mention: for Championing Accessibility for Those on and Off Stage | Everybody |
| DTM | Audrey Otto | West Chester University | Stage Management Regional Honorable Mention: for Grit, Collaboration and Initiative | 23rd Annual BC/Equity Fights AIDS Benefit Concert and Silent Auction |
| DTM | Cierra Miller | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | The KCACTF Vectorworks Award | Measure for Measure |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Juptej Singh | Rowan University | VASTA Award | |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Madelyn Barkocy | Adelphi University | Best Classical Acting Award | |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Ace Gray | Rochester Institute of Technology | Best Partner Award | |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Samuel Kang | Adelphi University | Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Recipient | |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Claudia Cromly | Cleveland State University | Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Runner Up | |
| Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Audition | Serena Rush | Rochester Institute of Technology |
Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Honorable Mention
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| ITJA | Zoe Wilson | Bucknell University | Winner | |
| MTI | Kristina Yim | Binghamton University |
Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award
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| MTI | Derrian Brown | University at Buffalo |
Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Runner-Up
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| MTI | Laura Ulrich | Lycoming College | Recognition of Vocal Excellence | |
| MTI | Kathryn Lloyd | University at Buffalo |
Recognition of Character Development & Physicality
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| MTI | Gracie Shreve | College of Wooster | Musical Theatre Intensive Dance Award | |
| NPP | Gretchen Suarez-Pena | Carnegie Mellon University | Certificate of Merit | The Arithmetic of Memory |
| NPP | Kandace James | Carnegie Mellon University | Certificate of Merit: Invited 10 Minute Play | Bub-ble-Gum-Bub-ble-Gum |
| NPP | Hope Villanueva | Lesley University | Certificate of Merit: Invited 10 Minute Play | We Could |
| NPP | Elle Thoni | Carnegie Mellon University | Certificate of Merit: Invited 10 Minute Play | The First Whale |
| NPP | Charlie Mooz | University of Virginia | Certificate of Merit: Invited 10 Minute Play | Birdsong |
| NPP | Sarah Styker | Villanova Univeristy | Certificate of Merit: Invited 10 Minute Play | Against The Wind |
| NPP | Jamie Olah | Carnegie Mellon University | Certificate of Merit: Invited One-Act Play | Eden in Silence |
| NPP | Clare McKernan | West Chester University | Certificate of Merit: Invited One-Act Play | Boys in Belfast |
| NPP | Gretchen Suarez-Pena | Carnegie Mellon University | Certificate of Merit: Invited One-Act Play | Wingman |
| NPP | Anastasia West | SUNY Oswego | Certificate of Merit: Invited One-Act Play | Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | Cyan Williams | Bowie State University | Certificate of Merit: Outstanding Swing | Wingman |
| NPP | Shantel Hill | Lycoming College | Outstanding Performance in a 10-Minute Play | As Robin in Bub-ble-Gum-Bub-ble-Gum |
| NPP | Raymond Ingram | Bowie State University | Outstanding Performance in a One Act Play | as Tony in Wingman |
| NPP | Claudia Cromly | Cleveland State University | Outstanding Performance in a One Act Play | as The Girl in Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | Claudia Cromly | Cleveland State University | Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading | Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | David Gold | West Chester University | Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading | Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | Claire Bosley | SUNY Oswego | Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading | Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | Nicholas Sweet | SUNY Oswego | Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading | Sisyphus Works From Home |
| NPP | Charlie Mooz | University of Virginia | Planet Earth Award | Birdsong |
| NPP | Gretchen Suarez-Pena | Carnegie Mellon University | Gary Garrison Ten Minute Play Regional Finalist | The Arithmetic of Memory |
| NPP | Sarah Styker | Villanova University | Gary Garrison Ten Minute Play Regional Finalist | Against The Wind |
| NPP | Samuel Kang | Adelphi University | Outstanding Performance at the Monologue Slam | Too Yellow To Be Human |
| NPP | Clare McKernan | West Chester University | John Cauble Regional Finalist | Boys in Belfast |
| NPP | Gretchen Suarez-Pena | Carnegie Mellon Univeristy | John Cauble Regional Finalist | Wingman |
| REGION 2 Poster Competition | Kailyn Shalosky | Muskingum University | Audience Choice Poster Design | Seussical: The Musical |
Region 2 Festival 55 Invited Productions
CONGRATULATIONS to our Festival 55 Invited Productions!
Slippery Rock University Presents:
Kate Hamill’s Pride & Prejudice
Directed by Laura Smiley
This isn’t your Grandma’s Austen! Lil Nas & Kendrick Lamar bookend this raucous, bold, ironic & timely Re-telling of Pride & Prejudice. Originally titled First Impressions, watch this journey unfold the thrills & absurdities of finding the perfect…er…perfectly imperfect match while owning up to the fact that maybe biases can cloud one’s judgement.
Eastern Mennonite University Presents:
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Justin Poole
Featuring Music by Perry Blosser and Joseph Harder
Arthur Miller’s timely, Pulitzer Prize winning play comes to life with immersive staging and atmospheric lighting and music. Be prepared for a theatrical experience that shocks, surprises, and highlights this classic play’s eerie contemporary relevance.
West Chester University Presents:
Spring Awakening
music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater
Directed by Charles DelMarcelle
The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening follows a group of teenage German students as they struggle to understand and obtain agency over their own bodies inside of a repressive, dismissive, ill-informed, and often cruel society. The folk-rock score by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater is equal parts powerful and poetic, acting as a raw reflection of the characters’ inner lives, and a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion. Content transparency: nudity, rape, death by suicide, and violence.
West Liberty University Presents:
Peter and the Starcatcher
By Rick Elice
Directed by Michael Aulick
Peter and the Starcatcher is a wildly theatrical production about a young orphan and his friends who are sent to a distant island where they are to be fed to the evil King Zarboff’s pet snake. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.
The play features a dozen actors portraying more than 100 unforgettable characters, Peter and the Starcatcher uses stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination to bring the story to life: “To have faith is to have wings!!”
Salisbury University Presents:
Mud
by María Irene Fornés
directed by Matt Saltzberg
This play in 17 scenes is set in a spare, bone-white wooden room perched on a red-earth promontory. Living with the churlish Lloyd, Mae seeks to escape her bleak, poverty-stricken existence by learning to read. She befriends Henry, who offers to teach her, but brutality and depravity nevertheless ensue.
Region 2 Festival 54 Awards
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Program |
Name(s) |
Award/Selection |
Info |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Nicole Sponaugle |
Regional 1st Place for Scenic Design |
4000 Miles – Adelphi University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Kacie Huston |
Honorable Mention for Scenic Design |
She Kills Monsters – Muskingum University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Kassidey McMillan |
Regional 1st Place for Lighting Design |
5 Women Wearing the Same Dress – Suffolk County Community College |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Sam O’Dea |
Honorable Mention for Lighting Design |
The Moors – York College of Pennsylvania |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Zacc Bang |
Regional 1st Place for Sound Design |
Love and Information – Millersville University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Shane Wilson |
Honorable Mention for Sound Design |
Triangle Factory Fire Project – West Chester University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Skylar James |
Regional 1st Place for Costume Design |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream– James Madison University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Sabrina Simmons |
Honorable Mention for Costume Design |
Head over Heels – James Madison University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Aliyah Guthrie |
The Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology Award |
The Gypsy Woman (Mask Design) – Muskingum University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Augusta Kinzel |
The Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology Award Regional Honorable Mention |
Anne of Green Gables (Hair Design) – Muskingum University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Erin Schetelich |
Regional Stage Management Fellow Selection |
Fugitive Songs – Towson University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Alexis Miller |
Regional Stage Management Fellow Honorable Mention |
Elsewhere – SUNY Oswego |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Kathryn Richer |
Don Childs DTM Cross-Discipline Collaboration Award |
Angles in America Part One: Millennium Approaches – Rochester Inst of Tech & National Tech Inst of the Deaf |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
David McDonald |
Jane Childs DTM Legacy Award |
Anne of Green Gables – Muskingum University |
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Design, Technology, & Management |
Christina Tyree |
Vectorworks Award |
Anne of Green Gables – Muskingum University |
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Devised Theatre |
Mercer County Community College |
Excellence in Devised Theatre |
“The 9/11 Mermorial Performance Project” – Performed by Kyle Bethea, Cole Chulamanis, Hakim Hachicha, Angelina Hawke, Timika Young |
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Dramaturgy |
Gabby Wilson |
KCACTF/LMDA Regional Dramaturgy Award |
The Pandemic Project – James Madison University |
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Dramaturgy |
Kuvar Bhatnagar, Emily Foreman, Abby Hines, Lorenne Huaman, Alexis Miller, Rachel Monson, Maria Przepióra, Hualbin Ramirez, Ryan Ricketts, Edward Salazar, & Sabrina Taylor |
Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative Dramaturgy |
Elsewhere – SUNY Oswego |
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Dramaturgy |
Benjamin Cloud |
Outstanding Achievement in Classroom Dramaturgy |
Cost of Living – York College of Pennsylvania |
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Dramaturgy |
Kuvar Bhatnagar, Emily Foreman, Abby Hines, Lorenne Huaman, Alexis Miller, Rachel Monson, Maria Przepióra, Hualbin Ramirez, Ryan Ricketts, Edward Salazar, and Sabrina Taylor |
Outstanding Dramaturgical Lobby Display |
Elsewhere – SUNY Oswego |
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Dramaturgy |
Arushi Grover |
Outstanding Dramaturgical Program Note |
The Last Five Years – Pennsylvania State University |
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Dramaturgy |
Rachel Monson |
Outstanding Dramaturgy for a NPP 10-Minute Play |
The Only Way Out – SUNY Oswego |
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Dramaturgy |
Kuvar Bhatnagar |
Outstanding Dramaturgy for a NPP One-Act Play |
The Vivian Play – SUNY Oswego |
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Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy |
Kate Joseph |
ITJA Boot Camp Graduate & Excellence in Theatre Journalism and Advocacy |
The College of Wooster |
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Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions |
Fernando Mercado |
Regional Award Selection |
Adelphi University |
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Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions |
Emma Scholl |
Runner Up |
Adelphi University |
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Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions |
Izzy Addison |
Best Partner |
James Madison University |
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Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions |
Kirstin VanRenselaar |
Classical Acting Award |
Alfred University |
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Musical Theatre Intensive Auditions |
Alawna Mallory |
Regional Award Selection |
Slippery Rock University |
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Musical Theatre Intensive Auditions |
Thea Simpson |
Runner Up |
James Madison University |
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Musical Theatre Intensive Auditions |
Joshua Schull |
Open Jar Institute Award |
Binghamton University |
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National Playwriting Program |
Sydney Cain-Frazier |
Outstanding Performance in a 10-Minute Play |
Sad Loved Ones Who Have To Work In The Morning –West Chester University |
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National Playwriting Program |
Monique Barnes |
Outstanding Performance in a One Act Play |
Selenelion – Howard University |
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National Playwriting Program |
Amelia Yasuda, Ruby McEwen, Kailee Goldberg, Leslie Monaco |
Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading |
The Vivian Play |
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National Playwriting Program |
Nate Hatchett, TiJhana Hines, Rakell Foye, Kaylin Luces, Emmy Masteller |
Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading |
This Is How You Capture The Light |
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National Playwriting Program |
Katelyn Loss, Lexi Twilley |
Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading |
Stall Talk |
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National Playwriting Program |
Raymond Ingram, Delasia Venterpool |
Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a NPP Reading |
Little Black Kids Don’t Go Outside |
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National Playwriting Program |
Sahira Parker |
Outstanding Direction of a 10 Minute Play |
Little Black Kids Don’t Go Outside – Bowie State University |
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National Playwriting Program |
Josie Palmarini |
Gary Garrison Regional Finalist |
Stall Talk – Ohio University |
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National Playwriting Program |
Kyndal Harrison |
Gary Garrison Regional Finalist |
academic play – University of Virginia |
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National Playwriting Program |
Emily Zhou |
John Cauble Regional Finalist |
The Vivian Play – University of Maryland College Park |
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National Playwriting Program |
Kandace James |
John Cauble Regional Finalist |
This Is How You Capture The Light – Carnegie Mellon University |
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SDC Directing Initiave Program |
Kimmarie McCrann |
Regional Selection |
Adelphi University |
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SDC Directing Initiative Program |
Maria Przepiora |
Runner Up |
SUNY Oswego |