Alumni News

February, 2010

The Phoenix Theatre was well represented in the eigth annual Critic’s Choice Spotlight Awards that recognized the finest shows of the 2008-9 season.

Dark of the Moon won awards for Best Overall Community Production, Best Director by theatre Professor and director Brian Richmond, and Best Sound Design by John Mills-Cockell. Then student, Brian Culp (BFA’09) was nominated for Best Performance in a Community Production for his role in Dark of the Moon. Alumnus Patrick Du Wors (BFA ’02) was nominated for his costume design on our production of Dark of the Moon and Blue Bridge Theatre’s As You Like It.

Nathan Brown’s (BFA ’09) set for Medea was nominated for Best Set Design and current MFA candidate Paphavee (Poe) Limkul lighting for La Rondewas nominated for Best Lighting Design. Other theatre alumni that won awards were: Clayton Jevne (BFA ’85, MFA ’88 and PhD ’03) (and others) in Theatre Inconnu's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Best Performance in a Community Performance; David Ferry (MFA '04) in Blue Bridge Theatre's Death of a Salesman for Best Performance; Britt Small (MFA ’04) and various alumni in Atomic Vaudeville’s Ride the Cyclone for Best New Play; Ingrid Hansen (BFA ’09) and SNAFU Dance Theatre’s Pretty Little Instincts for Best Fringe Production; and Giggling Iguana’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (adapted by Ian Case (BFA’91) for Best Site Specific Production. Congratulations to all!