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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Locals win theater writing prizes
There’s more to the stage than just acting and it’s in writing that two Waco residents, one former, the other present, are showing prize-winning talent.
Joshua Hill, a Waco Children’s Theatre product (as well as Connally High School, McLennan Community College’s theater program and the University of Texas at Austin), recently had a play selected for a staged reading at the Great Plains Theatre Conference held May 24-31 in Omaha, Neb. Hill’s play “A Truth In Lies” was chosen to be read in the conference’s Play Lab. Hill’s presently in Columbia University’s graduate program for playwriting.
Award-winner No. 2 is McLennan Community College theater student Amanda Lassetter who heads to Washington, D.C., next month for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Lassetter was one of eight regional winners of the Student Dramaturgy Award and represents Region IV (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas). If you attended MCC’s production of “Pride & Prejudice” last fall, you read her dramaturgy in the program.
I confess a partiality to writers - more power to these two in their competitions and careers.
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