The following students from the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University won awards at the KCACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival) in February:
Regional Musical Theatre Initiative Award, Third Place (out of 71 total participants): Adeline Wiggins
Songbird Award: Sarah Abercrombie
Comedy in Song Award: Jenna Ritchey
Sound Design, Second Place: Seth Furr
Lighting Design, First Place: Thomas Cawood
Make Up, First Place: Evelyn Ruff
Allied Crafts for Wig Design, First Place: Danny Kriner
Started in 1969 by Kennedy Center founding chairman, Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center American College Theater is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.