Friday, January 06, 2006
Wasserman to receive ACTF award for Excellence in Theater Education
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Elliot Wasserman, associate professor of theatre and director of USI Theatre, will receive the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in Theater Education at the KC/ACTF Region III Festival held at Illinois State University and hosted by ISU and Eureka College. The award will be presented on January 14, during the five-day festival which begins January 10. The award, given since 1972, is presented to those in the KC/ACTF regions who have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theater and to the development and quality of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. KC/ACTF is a year-round program in eight geographic regions in the United States. Region III includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Wasserman was the festival host when the Region III festival was held in Evansville in 2002 and 2003. The Evansville festivals established national attendance records and became the largest festivals in the 30-year history of the Kennedy Center project. He has served as Region III playwriting chair and state chair for Indiana. He joined the USI faculty in 1991, and he teaches courses in acting, directing, and playwriting. He also directs classic and contemporary drama and comedy for USI Theatre. Some of the previous Gold Medallion recipients from Indiana are Sam Smiley, then at Indiana University, 1981; John David Lutz, University of Evansville, 1984; and Joe Flauto, University of Evansville, 1990. |
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