MiraCosta Theatre Students Win Awards at American College Theatre Festival

MiraCosta College theatre students won several awards at the regional festival of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival XL (KCACTF), held in February at CSU Los Angeles. 

MiraCosta student Anyelid Meneses was one of only two community college students in the region to advance to the finals in the acting competition (the Irene Ryan Scholarship).  She finished in the top 16 of 313 total competitors.  Asia Leads won "Honorable Mention" (third place overall) in the Stage Management Competition and Sam Sherman won the Best Stage Manager Award for the 10 Minute Play Festival.

Twenty MiraCosta students participated in the festival and put in six 12-hour days attending workshops, productions and auditions for undergraduate schools and summer stock theatres.

“The students represented MiraCosta well,” says theatre instructor Eric Bishop. “They were supportive of other institutions, made friends from other colleges and gained valuable experience.  Being the only college from the San Diego area, our often-repeated mantra was ‘Stay classy San Diego.’”

MiraCosta College belongs to Region VIII of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which represents colleges from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. Through state, regional, and national festivals, KCACTF participants celebrate the creative process, see one another's work, and share experiences and insights within the community of theater artists. The KCACTF honors excellence in overall production and offers student artists individual recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing, and design.  Photographs of the students are available for download at MiraCosta's Photos page.