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Alabama State University’s Department of Theatre Arts has made history by winning the top honor in the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) for the 4th consecutive year.
Sophomore Chayning Jenkins won the Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Scholarship regional award. Her scene partner, junior LaDarreun Taylor, is familiar with this level of achievement since he won the award in 2015. The talented pair will represent Region IV and ASU in the national competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Jenkins and Taylor were the victors from a body more than 200 undergraduate and graduate-level competitors who represented colleges and universities from the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern Virginia and Tennessee.
Brian Martin, an associate professor in the Department of Theatre, who coached, developed and trained the last four consecutive winning acting and singing performance pairs, calls this year’s win “unbelievable.”
“The students always put in such hard work, many long hours and changes up to competition time, but they always rise to the occasion,” said Martin.
Alabama State University’s Department of Theatre Arts has made history by winning the top honor in the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) for the 4th consecutive year.
Sophomore Chayning Jenkins won the Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Scholarship regional award. Her scene partner, junior LaDarreun Taylor, is familiar with this level of achievement since he won the award in 2015. The talented pair will represent Region IV and ASU in the national competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Jenkins and Taylor were the victors from a body more than 200 undergraduate and graduate-level competitors who represented colleges and universities from the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern Virginia and Tennessee.
Brian Martin, an associate professor in the Department of Theatre, who coached, developed and trained the last four consecutive winning acting and singing performance pairs, calls this year’s win “unbelievable.”
“The students always put in such hard work, many long hours and changes up to competition time, but they always rise to the occasion,” said Martin.