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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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By Winfred Emmons III
March 30, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
Congratulations to Joshua, whom we at the Waco Civic Theatre remember fondly as author of “The Last Christmas Pageant Ever” which had its world premiere(!) there in 2005.
Things are hopping at the WCT where we just closed a very successful run of “Steel Magnolias” with almost all sold out performances.Congratulations to director Parker Willson and his able cast and crew.
Next up at the WCT is “Nunsense,” a hilarious musical that runs three weekends ( including a Mother’s day special on May 11) beginning April 25. The cast includes Christy Griser as the Mother Superior Sister Mary Cardelia, Regan Haddock as Sister Mary Hubert,Beth Richards as as Sister Mary Amnesia, Karen Savage as Sister Robert Annne, and Midway High School’s Grace Riehl as Sister Mary Leo.
I suggest you get your tickets early.
By Winfred Emmons III
April 5, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Rehearsals for “Nunsense” are in full swing. Last saw this show in Spring of 1993, my first show ever to see at Waco Civic, directed by Joe Brooks and stage managed by Harold Wellbaum. My only recollection is that it was very funny. Having been watching rehearsals recently, I now remember why. Wow! Incredibly funny text, songs, situations and a great group of local talent. GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY: APRIL 25 TO MAY 11.
By the way, the role of the Reverend Mother has now been assumed by Donna Makowski.
See you there!