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Students honored for work on Clark Musical Theatre production of The Little Mermaid.<\/p>\n

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Clark University shone brightly at this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival<\/a> regional event, with juniors Jaime Silverman and Liam Day each earning awards for their contributions to Clark Musical Theater’s<\/a> fall production of “The Little Mermaid.”<\/p>\n

The Region 1 Festival, which drew theater students from seven northeastern states, was held in February at Western Connecticut State University. Started in 1969, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a national theater program involving 20,000 students each year from colleges and universities nationwide.<\/p>\n

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Costumes designed by Jaime Silverman ’19 included that of Ursula, played by Lyndsey Hawkes ’19, in “The Little Mermaid.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Silverman, who designed the costumes for “The Little Mermaid,” received the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival<\/a> (KCACTF) Award’s Honorable Mention in Costume Design and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT<\/a> New England Design and Technologies Meritorious Award. The latter award came with a trip to the USITT’s National Conference and Stage Expo<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A theatre arts<\/a> major and studio art<\/a> minor, Silverman is involved with  Clark University Players Society<\/a> and Variant Dance Troupe. Her theatre adviser for her award-winning designs was Jessie Darrell Jarbadan<\/a>, a part-time faculty member in Clark’s Theatre Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I knew pretty much my entire life that I wanted to do theatre. It wasn’t until college, however, that I realized I wanted to be a costume designer,” says Silverman, who hopes one day to pursue a graduate degree in costume design. “By focusing on theatre and costume design, I have been able to continue learning how the overall production process works. I also have found my studio art minor incredibly helpful in developing my skills to create my designs.”<\/p>\n

At Clark, she has found the freedom to pursue her goals. “If I want to try to accomplish something,” she says, “it is very easy to talk to my advisers and work on a way for it to happen.”<\/p>\n

For his work lighting Clark’s production of “The Little Mermaid,” Day was awarded the Vectorworks Award<\/a> for Design, Technology, and Management and the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas<\/a>’ Don Childs Award for Excellence in Lighting. His award included a computer program for lighting designs, and an internship with professionals in theatrical lighting. Day’s mentor for his award-winning work was Kevin McGerigle<\/a>, technical director in Clark’s Theatre Department.<\/p>\n

“I came to Clark with essentially no idea of what I wanted to do,” says Day, a media, culture, and the arts <\/a>major, a Traina Scholar, and a member of Clark University Players Society<\/a> and the Recycling Crew. “My experiences with Clark and its faculty, staff, and students have shaped who I am and helped me find a potential career path that could be exciting, rewarding, and fun. I learned everything that I know about lighting here.”<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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