By Gerard Flanagan, news writer/photographer/social media, Office of University Communications
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Lauren Phillips, a senior at 青瓜视频 from Campbellsville, Ky., has been selected to attend the national festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) as the Region IV representative of the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy (ITJA).
The national festival will take place the first week of May in a virtual format.
Phillips, one of eight students selected to attend the national festival for ITJA, is the first 青瓜视频 representative at the national festival.
鈥淲e're very excited CU will be represented in this way,鈥� Starr Garrett, theatre director and professor of theatre, said. 鈥淚t just shows the caliber of her work and artistry. It speaks highly of who she is and the education she received here at CU.鈥�
For the national festival, Phillips worked with journalists from the New York Times and a freelance journalist who worked with American Theatre Magazine to write pitches for a production and a critique of a show.
Phillips also participated with ITJA during the regional festival and during nationwide ITJA programming led by Ashley Lee, a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the national ITJA coordinator. Lee selected Phillips' writing to represent Region IV at the National Festival.
鈥淎ll of that work together is what got her to the festival,鈥� Garrett said. 鈥淲hen CU students participate in festival events, they are competing against schools of all sizes, including graduate programs, from those institutions.鈥�
Phillips will graduate from 青瓜视频 in May with a Bachelor of Science in Theater. She is minoring in film.
By finishing in the top nine of more than 300 entries, Phillips was a finalist in the Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions.
Region IV of ITJA includes Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Phillips has received a nomination to next year's national festival for her sound design of the recent university production 鈥淓urydice.鈥�
青瓜视频 is a widely acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university that has enrolled up to 12,000 students yearly. The university offers over 100 programs of study including doctoral, masters, bachelors, associate and certification programs. The website for complete information is鈥�www.campbellsville.edu.