Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU—the Department of Communication’s production division that received a 2021 School of Excellence Award in Higher Education from Mississippi for Arts Education—debuts its spring season this month.
Students and faculty in Mississippi State University’s Department of Communication are nominated for nine awards for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Fourteen schools, which have won on a divisional level, will present one-act plays for adjudication on the state level with the winners advancing to the Southeastern Theatre Conference.
Cameron Mayers is a sophomore double-majoring in communication with a concentration in theatre and political science, and he is minoring in marketing. Mayers is incredibly active across campus, participating in Student Association, where he is director of marketing for organizational outreach.
Tim Baker, MSU Theatre Artist-in-Residence, discusses Theatre MSU's Fall children's production: Banner: A Sea Turtle Saga.
Students in Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU—the Department of Communication’s production division recently named a 2021 School of Excellence Award in Higher Education from the Mississippi for Arts Education—now are nominees to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) to be held virtually this February.
Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men On Boats delves into the dynamics
of ten explorers on the first expedition (of white men) down
the Colorado River to a “big” canyon. Raised in Arizona,
Backhaus had heard about the journey during her child-
hood and wanted to adapt it for the stage. In the process
she realized that she was interested in the story in part
because she felt that she would never play the part of a
nineteenth-century explorer—and that writing it was her way
of vicariously living their adventure.
-From an essay by Summer Banks
Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU—the Department of Communication’s production division that recently garnered a 2021 School of Excellence Award in Higher Education from the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education—debuts its new season this month.