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
ITJA Zoe Wilson Bucknell University Winner
MTI Kristina Yim Binghamton University
Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award
MTI Derrian Brown University at Buffalo
Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Runner-Up
MTI Laura Ulrich Lycoming College Recognition of Vocal Excellence
MTI Kathryn Lloyd University at Buffalo
Recognition of Character Development & Physicality
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