2008 Woodie Awards
Students to Take Limelight at Annual Theatrical Competition
Sindy Diaz
Issue date: 2/9/05 Section: A&E
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Six students from the Citrus College Theater Arts Department are competing in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition.
The annual event, which gave way on Monday is being held in Phoenix and will run through Sunday.
The competition is part of the American College Theater Festival, hosted by Maricopa Community Colleges. It will be co-hosted by Glendale Community College and Phoenix College.
Each year Citrus College theater professor, Cherie Brown , enters her main stage production into the festival as either a participating production or an associate production.
Participating productions are adjudicated for possible performance at the festival and specific actors are chosen to compete in the competition.
With an associate production, specific scenes may be considered for the Invitational Scene Event. In both cases specific actors are chosen to compete in the competition.
Representing Citrus are students Matthew Thomas and Jenny Rodriguez, both from the fall 2004 production of The Curious Savage; Michael Grady from spring 2004 production of Hot L Baltimore and scene partners Roschanda Harrison and Norman Johnson.
"We work hard during the semester and it is a privilege to get to attend a competition like this," Rodriguez said.
Also, former Citrus College Theater Arts student, Tatiana Leiva's play La Lista Negra, scheduled to premier in March, has been entered as a participating production.
In recent years scenes from Citrus productions of Our Town, Tartuffe, Maids of Honor and Our Country's Good have been selected for performance at the Invitational Scene Event.
The week-long festival is not all about competition.
Four-year schools such as Vanguard University of Southern California, CSU Fullerton and Dixie State College will be putting on performances by famous playwrights such as The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and The Miser by Moliere.
There will also be 42 resourceful workshops that entail information about acting, directing and auditioning.
"I hope that the students get as much out of this event," Brown said. "I am sure they will all be great."
The annual event, which gave way on Monday is being held in Phoenix and will run through Sunday.
The competition is part of the American College Theater Festival, hosted by Maricopa Community Colleges. It will be co-hosted by Glendale Community College and Phoenix College.
Each year Citrus College theater professor, Cherie Brown , enters her main stage production into the festival as either a participating production or an associate production.
Participating productions are adjudicated for possible performance at the festival and specific actors are chosen to compete in the competition.
With an associate production, specific scenes may be considered for the Invitational Scene Event. In both cases specific actors are chosen to compete in the competition.
Representing Citrus are students Matthew Thomas and Jenny Rodriguez, both from the fall 2004 production of The Curious Savage; Michael Grady from spring 2004 production of Hot L Baltimore and scene partners Roschanda Harrison and Norman Johnson.
"We work hard during the semester and it is a privilege to get to attend a competition like this," Rodriguez said.
Also, former Citrus College Theater Arts student, Tatiana Leiva's play La Lista Negra, scheduled to premier in March, has been entered as a participating production.
In recent years scenes from Citrus productions of Our Town, Tartuffe, Maids of Honor and Our Country's Good have been selected for performance at the Invitational Scene Event.
The week-long festival is not all about competition.
Four-year schools such as Vanguard University of Southern California, CSU Fullerton and Dixie State College will be putting on performances by famous playwrights such as The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and The Miser by Moliere.
There will also be 42 resourceful workshops that entail information about acting, directing and auditioning.
"I hope that the students get as much out of this event," Brown said. "I am sure they will all be great."