10.09.09   Aisha Melhem directs Terminal at Texas State

04.03.09   Texas State Student wins KCACTF National Student Playwriting Award

Students in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University have experienced a high degree of success via their participation in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. In recent years, the department, and our students, have increasingly been recognized at the Kennedy Center during the National Festival. Honorees include:

2009    A. John Boulanger    National Student Playwriting Award for House of Several Stories.

           House of Several Stories produced at the Kennedy Center.

           Vanessa Velasquez  National Selection Team Fellowship for Scene Design for Caucasian Chalk

                Circle and House of Several Stories

           Caucasian Chalk Circle asked to hold for the Kennedy Center

2008   John Davenport        Stage Management for The Importance of Being Earnest

2007   Brian White              Scene Design for The Rocky Horror Show

          Sarah Lazorwitz       Lightign Design for The Rocky Horror Show

2006    Department recognized as Producer of Going After Cacciato by Romulus Linney from the novel by

            Tim O'Brien, winner of the David Mark Cohen Award for Best New Play

2005    Kindra Williams       Costume Design for Metamorphoses

2004    Stephanie Mann      Scene Design for Transposing Shakespeare

2003    Cole Wimpee           Irene Ryan Acting Finalist

2002    Monique Norman     Lighting Design for The Medeas 

2001    Chris Cox                 Scene Design for Six Degrees of Separation

1999    Angela Valerio         Costume Design for Turandot