University of Evansville - LinC Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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Drama Department Jodi Ewen was on the stand, fighting for her freedom and her sanity. Lawyer Rick Walters was putting on the pressure. The spectators loved it — enough to award Jodi the Irene Ryan Award for 1983. Jodi and Rick were performing a scene from Nuts by Tom Topor at the American College Theatre Festival for District 3, in South Bend, Ind. Jodi and Mike MacCauley were nominated for the award by Drama Department Chairman John David Lutz for their performances in A Christmas Carol. Julie Fishell and Steve Kalstrup were nominated for their roles in A Streetcar Named Desire. The cast and crew of Streetcar and the Irene Ryan nominees journeyed to South Bend the weekend of January 5 for the Festival. Once there, the nominees from UE were up against 36 others from the District 3 region of 26 Student Life

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Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Jodi ' s convincing performance of Nuts and her solo Freddy My Love from Grease earned her a $750 scholarship and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national competition in April. Streetcar was performed at the Festival, along with five other plays produced by other colleges. Another UE student fared very well at the Festival. Michelle Zimmerman won the regional costume designing award for the Shakespearean play The Merry Wives of Windsor. With her designs, Michelle updated the setting to 1820, using patterned material and spring colors. Her favorite costume from the play was Falstaff ' s with his horizontally-striped pants and big hat. Three UE graduates showed up at the festival, all working with other colleges. Scott Lank, a faculty member at Hope College, directed their production of Tea and Sympathy. Carolyn Lancet designed the costumes for Kalamazoo College ' s show, El Gronde de Coca Cola, and Nancy Beverly, a graduate student at Indiana University, wrote their entry in the Festival, Talk Show. 28 Student Life