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U-M Theatre students have opportunities to excel at the annual American College Theatre Festival. A great many of our students have won design and/or acting awards at the annual ACTF Region III competitions (Michigan/Ohio/Indiana/Illinois/ Wisconsin) every year since 1992, when we began our annual participation. A number of these awards have been first-place prizes, with a trip to the Kennedy Center in April for nationwide competitions for scholarships and awards.
In January 1999, we entered our first full production in the Region III festival—Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Kevin Judge (Design & Production BFA) won the Barbizon Set Design Award for his Endgame design. |
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Congratulations to all of our ACTF Award Winners!
ACTF 2005:
A NEW AWARD was added to the design competitions this year ~ the National Stage Management award ~ which
was won by junior Colin Miller! Colin's detailed work as stage manager for the mainstage production
of 1918 greatly impressed the ACTF adjudicators. Honorable Mention went to junior Stephen Siercks for his
stage management of A Flea in Her Ear, which ran in December.
Senior Janine Woods took the Barbizon Award in Scenic Design for her stunning Romeo and Juliet design, produced in
February.
Sophomore Elyse Handelman won the Lighting Design Award, and seniors Edward Morris and Janine Woods
received Scenic Design Honorable Mentions, for their Oedipus the King projects. This year's Region III festival was hosted
again by Illinois State University in Bloomington.
ACTF 2004:
Nine Design & Production majors participated in the Region III festival, hosted by Illinois State University, where four
of our students received design project awards. For their Midsummer Night's Dream projects, junior
Anup Aurora took first place in Lighting Design and senior Janine Woods received an honorable mention for
Scenic Design.
Honorable Mentions also went to senior Sheila McClear for her Ma Rainey's Black Bottom costume designs,
and to Jennifer Nweke, also a senior, for her Pippin costume designs.
ACTF 2003:
Twelve design students traveled to Evansville, Indiana for this year's festival, where one-third of the Design
Project finalists were U-M students! Junior Michelle Sherry won the lighting award for her Awake and Sing project and
Christian DeAngelis (also a junior) received an hororable mention for his A Little Night Music entry.
Jennifer Nweke, new to the program this year, received an honorable mention for her costume design project,
The Emperor Jones.
Caleb Levengood, a senior, was a finalist for his set design for the mainstage production of The Imaginary Invalid,
presented last fall by the Theatre Department.
Earlier award winners were:
ACTF 2002:
Michelle Sherry (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Design Projects 2002 Lighting Award
Christian DeAngelis (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Honorable Mention, Design Projects 2002 (Lighting)
Jennifer Nweke (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Honorable Mention, Design Projects 2002 (Costume)
Caleb Levengood (Bachelor of Theatre Arts) was one of 12 finalists (out of 81 entries) for his realized scene design for The Imaginary Invalid.
ACTF 2001:
Rachel Laritz (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Honorable Mention, Barbizon Award
Meghann O'Malley (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Honorable Mention, Barbizon Award
Harold Burgess (MFA in Design) ~ Certificate of Merit, Lighting Design
Becky Hibbs (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Certificate of Merit, Lighting Design
ACTF 2000:
Harold Burgess (MFA in Design) ~ Outstanding Scenic Design and Honorable Mention for Lighting Design
Meghann O'Malley (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Outstanding Costume Design
Aaron Sporer (BFA in Design & Production) ~ Outstanding Lighting Design
ACTF 1999:
Lisa Parkel: Design Projects 2000 Award for Inherit the Wind set design
Aaron Sporer: Design Projects 2000 Award for West Side Story lighting design
David Garcia: Design Projects 2000 Honorable Mention for Fences set design
ACTF 1998:
Kevin Judge: The Barbizon Region III Set Design Award for Endgame
Dara Seitzman: Irene Ryan Alternate (acting)
Lisa Parkel: Honorable Mention, Grad Costume Design Project for Man of La Mancha
Damian Caza-Cleypool: Undergrad Lighting Design Project, Riders to the Sea
Tim Reynolds: Undergrad Set Design Project, A Doll's House
ACTF 1997:
Lisa Parkel: Graduate Costume Design Project, The Skriker
Dominick Veldman: Undergrad Lighting Design Project, Three Sisters
Katie Marchyok:Honorable Mention, Undergrad Lighting Design Project, Three Sisters
ACTF 1996:
Heesun Ko: Barbizon Region III Lighting Design Award, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Undergrad Costume Design Project, Sweeney Todd
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ACTF 1995:
Heather Dilly: Irene Ryan Award
ACTF 1994:
Greta Fisher: Barbizon Lighting Design Award for Sunday in the Park with George
ACTF 1993:
Greta Fisher: Barbizon Region III Lighting Design Award
Charlotte Pritchard: Barbizon Region III Costume Design Award
Jennifer Snoeyink: Honorable Mention, Set Design
ACTF 1992:
Karyl Newman: Barbizon Region III Costume Design Award
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