Theater students act their way across state lines
Amanda Klein
Issue date: 1/22/10 Section: Features
Theater students may dream of becoming famous Broadway stars. Although going to a college theater festival may not be the same as having their names on a marquee, it's still one step closer to achieving their dreams.
Three students attended the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from Jan. 12 to 16, and one student had the opportunity to participate in "The Field" by Rachel Barclay at the festival.
"I got to be the reader, which I found out was the person that introduces the play, because it's a reading of it, so you couldn't act it out," Ashley Waterman, a junior English major, said. "I would read all the stage directions."
Although Waterman didn't have a large role, she enjoyed participating.
"It wasn't a big, giant 'Hey, you're acting' thing, but I still got to be a part of it," she said.
Students auditioned for plays on Wednesday and would perform in the short, 10-minute productions Saturday night.
"To have everything memorized, to have all your lines down, by Saturday night would be impossible, so they'd have concert stands there," Cameron DeOrdio, a junior English and journalism and mass communication double major, said. "People weren't doing much physical acting. It was mostly in the voice."
Becky Misenheimer, assistant professor of theater, was excited to have one of her students perform at the festival.
"They held auditions every two minutes from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.," she said. "They literally saw hundreds of students, and Ashley was still cast. Clearly, we're not doing too shabby."
Misenheimer thinks interest in the festival will help expand the theater program at Bonaventure.
"Two years ago, I went and took one student with me," she said. "This year we took three students."
Other than performing, the students saw multiple plays per day, put on by schools around the region.
"They invite shows from different schools, and they invite the best ones to come (to the festival)," Emily West, a freshman theater and journalism and mass communication double major, said. "Some of them were brand-new plays, so that was really neat."
Three students attended the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from Jan. 12 to 16, and one student had the opportunity to participate in "The Field" by Rachel Barclay at the festival.
"I got to be the reader, which I found out was the person that introduces the play, because it's a reading of it, so you couldn't act it out," Ashley Waterman, a junior English major, said. "I would read all the stage directions."
Although Waterman didn't have a large role, she enjoyed participating.
"It wasn't a big, giant 'Hey, you're acting' thing, but I still got to be a part of it," she said.
Students auditioned for plays on Wednesday and would perform in the short, 10-minute productions Saturday night.
"To have everything memorized, to have all your lines down, by Saturday night would be impossible, so they'd have concert stands there," Cameron DeOrdio, a junior English and journalism and mass communication double major, said. "People weren't doing much physical acting. It was mostly in the voice."
Becky Misenheimer, assistant professor of theater, was excited to have one of her students perform at the festival.
"They held auditions every two minutes from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.," she said. "They literally saw hundreds of students, and Ashley was still cast. Clearly, we're not doing too shabby."
Misenheimer thinks interest in the festival will help expand the theater program at Bonaventure.
"Two years ago, I went and took one student with me," she said. "This year we took three students."
Other than performing, the students saw multiple plays per day, put on by schools around the region.
"They invite shows from different schools, and they invite the best ones to come (to the festival)," Emily West, a freshman theater and journalism and mass communication double major, said. "Some of them were brand-new plays, so that was really neat."
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