The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University announced today the recipient of the first-ever Excellence in Theatre Education Award. Corey Mitchell, theater arts teacher at Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, N.C., has been recognized for his 20 years of enriching the lives of his acting students. The special award, announced in January, is the first new Tony in six years, reflecting the gratitude many theater artists and professionals express for the educators who helped set them on their paths. Connected to the Twitter hashtag #NominateMyTeacher, the submissions for nominees reached over 4,000. In addition to Mitchell, Grandstreet Theatre School’s director of education Marianne Adams and Baltimore School for the Arts’ theater department director Donald Hicken emerged as the award’s finalists. “The submissions for these educators by their students and colleagues were extremely moving, and the lasting impact they have made was made very evident by the videos and stories they shared,...
- 6/4/2015
- backstage.com
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University Cmu have announced Corey Mitchell, Theater Arts Teacher at the Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, N.C., as the winner of the inaugural Excellence in Theatre Education Award. This year's finalists were Marianne Adams, Director of Education at the Grandstreet Theatre School in Helena, Mont., and Donald Hicken, Theatre Department Director at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore, Md.
- 6/4/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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