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.
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 |