BLINN-BRENHAM THEATRE STUDENTS EARN AWARDS AT STATE PLAY FESTIVAL
Students from Blinn-Brenham’s Theatre Arts Program recently earned statewide recognition for a recent production.
Blinn’s production of George Axelrod’s “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” earned a Superior rating for the overall production, at the 2019 Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association Play Festival in Mesquite.
Students honored include Tyler Regan, who received the Greg Schneider Technical Excellence Award for lighting design, a prestigious award given to a student making the most outstanding technical contribution at the play festival. Regan also received Professors’ Choice and Respondents’ Choice Excellent Awards in Technical, for lighting design.
Jackie Andrade received a Respondents’ Choice Superior Award and Professors’ Choice Excellent Award in Technical for makeup design.
Additionally, Professors’ Choice Excellent Awards in Technical went to Kaylee Reidenbach for stage management, Megan Flores and Tyler Roberts for assistant stage management, Isabela Silva for properties design, and Kiarra Pruitt for sound design.
Respondents’ Choice Excellent Awards in Technical went to Pruitt for properties design, and Eva Kirby and Flores for costume running crew.
Kirby and Nicki Pinter received Respondents’ Choice Superior Awards in Acting for their roles as Rita Marlowe and Sally Irving. Pinter also received a Professors’ Choice Acting Award.
In addition, Respondents’ Choice Excellent Awards in Acting went to Amanda Storey for her role as Violet Logan, and Zachary Hopkins for his role as George MacCauley.
Roberts and Christopher Velasquez received Audience Choice Acting Awards and Respondents’ Choice Special Merit Awards for playing production assistants.
Blinn-Brenham hosted the production in February, with over 400 attending the public performances, and around 100 students from La Grange and Onalaska High Schools attending the preview performances.
Blinn-Brenham Theatre Arts Director Brad Nies said the College is very proud of the awards students took home from the festival, saying they “really rose to the occasion” in producing the show.
Nies directed the play, Kevin Patrick served as technical director, and Jennifer Patrick served as costume designer.