Spotlight May-June 2019

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AACT Region I
AACT Region I
The New England Regional
Festival (NERF) was held at
the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre
in Torrington, Connecticut,
on March 9, 2019. Pictured
(L-R) are NERF Co-Chair
Tori Richnavsky, AACT
Festival Commissioner Kay
Armstrong, and AACT Region
I Representative Bevie Lord.
On March 9, 2019, AACT Region I Representative Bevie Lord
(R) congratulated Jessica Washington (actress) and Sal Jones
(director) on the selection of The Lexington Players’ (Arlington,
MA) production of Who Will Sing for Lena to advance from the
New England Regional Festival (Region I) to AACTFest 2019 in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 18-22
Oregon State Theatre Fest took place at Salem’s
Historic Grand Theatre on March 9, 2019, and was
hosted by Enlightened Theatrics (Salem, OR). Full
Frontal Nudity, presented by The Verona Studio
(Salem, OR), was selected to move on to the Region
IX Festival in April. Celebrating their successful
performance (L-R): Tavis Evans (Assistant Director,
Light/Sound, and Stage Manager), Liz Ming (stage
crew), Linda Cashin (actor: Lana), Kat Baird (Outstanding
Performance, Bimbi), Barry Saxton (Best
Director), Jon Douglas Rake (Region IX Representative
and AACT Festival Commissioner), Randal
Tosh (Producer), and Joe Botkin (actor: Leo). [Not
pictured: Jeff Sanders (actor: Hector)]
Lonnie and Kim Thurston
Mike Crawford
Owosso Community Players hosted the 2019 Community
Theatre Association of Michigan (CTAM) AACTFest in their
historic downtown theatre March 15-17. Celebrating the close
of a successful festival were (L-R) AACT Festival Commissioner
Chris Serface, Adjudicators Ron Cameron-Lewis
and Kathy Pingel, Festival Co-Chairs Ruthann Liagre
and Jessica Hickey, Adjudicator Larry Nielsen, and CTAM
President Betsy Willis.
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