Award Winning...Faculty, Students, Program
UW-La
Crosse is an active participant in the Kennedy Center's American
College Theatre Festival. Since Fall 1999, UW-La Crosse productions
have been awarded over 45 nominations to the Irene Ryan Acting Competition
and over 25 Certificates of Merit in the areas of directing, design,
and stage management. Our critically-acclaimed production of
Metamorphoses was chosen to be performed at the regional festival
in 2004 with Mary Leonard (faculty) receiving the Regional Award
of Merit for Directing for this production. William Clow (faculty)
has received the Regional Award of Merit for Lighting Design for
Metamorphoses (2004) and Book of Days (2003).
In 2005, student Jason Knox was the Regional Sound Design Award winner for his sound design of Tongue of a Bird and Jessica McMunn won second place in Directing at the regional festival. In 2006, freshman Theatre major, Joseph Buchel, made it to the regional semifinals of the Irene Ryan Acting Competition.
For a complete list of ACTF student and faculty
recognitions, click here.
Theatre
students at UW-La Crosse have also been highly successful in the
undergraduate research competition in which grants are provided
to support undergraduate and international research and creative
activities. Students have written proposals and received full
funding to research theatre topics including directing a production,
studying pub theatre in London, and writing a script.
For a complete list of UW-La Crosse Theatre Student Undergraduate Research awards, click here.