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Awards
won by
Collin College Theatre: |
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National Finalist,
American College Theater Festival:
 | 1996 Stand-Up Tragedy |
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Regional Finalist, American College
Theater Festival:
| 2005 The Rooftop Skyline |
| 2002 The Worth of Me |
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2002 A Clockwork Orange (invited
to attend) |
| 2001 subUrbia |
| 2000 Through a Glass Onion |
| 1996 Stand-Up Tragedy |
| 1995 Beep...BANG! |
| 1994 Terra Nova |
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National Festival
Alternate, American College Theater Festival:
| 2001 subUrbia |
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| One of only seven two year colleges to be
invited to the
ACTF National
Festival in the past 40 years |
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| Nominee for the Jean Kennedy Smith
Award; The Worth of Me (2003), written by Chris
Cantrell |
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| #1
Play in the Metroplex! - A Clockwork Orange
- Dallas Observer and Dallas Voice |
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| Top 10 Arts Events, Dallas Morning News -
The Hands
of Its Enemy, 1993 |
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Sandra Snyder - one of the Top Five
Makeup Designers in
the Nation, 1993. |
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Kennedy
Center Fellowship in Lighting, awarded to Craig "Yo"
Erickson. Craig worked with legendary Tony Award
winning lighting designer Beverly Emmons during July 2003. |
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CASE/Carnegie
Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, 2000 -
awarded to Collin Theatre Chair Brad Baker. |
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Texas Educational Theatre Association
Educator of the Year
in the State of Texas, 2001 - awarded to Collin Theatre Chair Brad Baker. |
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Collin Theatre Chair Brad Baker was highlighted in
Theater Week magazine as one of the "Unsung Heroes of the Theatre" for
1995. |
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Students
who have won
Regional or National awards: |
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| Through a Glass Onion, written by Jason
Stuart, was selected by the Kennedy Center as the top
student-written play in the Nation, 2000. (published by Dramatic
Publishing, Inc.) |
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| Through a Glass Onion was also nominated
for the prestigious ATHE award, given annually by the
Association of Theatre in Higher Education to the outstanding student-written play
in the nation. |
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| The Worth of Me, written by Chris
Cantrell, was a 2002 National Finalist for the Jean
Kennedy Smith Award, as selected by the Kennedy Center. |
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| The Rooftop Skyline, written by Carter Hudson, was a
2005 Regional Finalist in the ACTF 10-Minute Play Festival. |
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| Chris Cantrell was the first recipient of the
Shakespeare Theatre Acting Fellowship funded by the Kennedy Center.
Chris joined their acting company and appear in productions staged
by world-renowned directors, including Michael Kahn and Mark Lamos. |
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Christopher Trevino - one of the Top
Eight Lighting Designers in
the Nation, 2004. |
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Andrew Duckworth - one of the Top Five Sound Designers in
the Nation, 1998 and 1997. |
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| Chris Cantrell was a National Finalist
for the Irene Ryan Scholarship. Chris and his partner - Shawn Patrick
Dollinger - competed at the Kennedy Center in
Washington DC in April 2003.
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Laura Stephenson and her partner competed in the
Irene Ryan National Finals in 2010.
Laura was honored with the Kingsley Colton Award as Best Partner. |
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Fourteen Collin College Theatre students have advanced to the
Regional Finals of
the Irene Ryan Acting competition:
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Laura Stephenson (2010) |
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Lindsay Neinast (2009) |
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Andy Bean (2005) |
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Wade Ryan (2004 and 2005) |
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Aaron Patterson (2004) |
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Chris Cantrell (2002 and 2003) |
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Shawn Patrick Dollinger (2003) |
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Melinda Churchill (2002) |
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Stephanie Duckham (1999) |
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Thomas LeGalley (1999) |
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Philip Elins (1998) |
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Michael Harris (1998) |
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Amber White (1998) |
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Sitara "Star" Brown (1998) |
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Chad E. Phillips (1995 and 1998) |
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