ACHIEVEMENTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

• Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV (ACTF)
  
  
• Invitation for A Chorus Line (2006)
• Finalist for West Side Story (2005)
• Finalist for Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (2003)
• Special Achievement Award (2003)
• Multiple awards for Outstanding Performer in the Nation for performances in productions of Jekyll and Hyde: the Musical, 2002-2003 and West Side Story, 2004-05
• Multiple finalists and semifinalists in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition
• Multiple student Design nominations for Makeup and Costume Design
• Multiple student Stage Management nominations
• Faculty Achievement Awards in Dialect Coaching and Scenic Design
• Outstanding Achievement Award in Direction, Fight Choreography, Musical Direction, and Scenic Design for Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical
  
  
• Georgia Theatre Conference
  
• Top Male and Female Georgia Theatre Conference Acting Competition Scores (2004, 2006)
• For the past five years, Shorter College Musical Theatre and Theatre students have represented over one third of all college and university students chosen to represent the State of Georgia at SETC; over 50% of our students that audition at GTC are passed on to SETC.
  
  
• Multiple alumni have already completed or are now on National Tours (including The Sound of Music, The Full Monty, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, and The Little Mermaid) or working off-Broadway (including Forbidden Broadway).
  
  
• For the past four years over 70% of Shorter College Theatre and Musical Theatre majors have been employed by diverse Summer Stock Theatre Companies across the Nation (including The Lost Colony, Unto These Hills, Tecumseh, Trumpet in the Land, Stephen Foster—The Musical, McLeod Summer Playhouse, Timber Lake Playhouse, Lake Dillon Summer Theatre, and Lakes Region Summer Theatre).
  
  
• Several students and alumni each year are actively performing with Atlanta-based professional companies such as the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Art Within, Kudzu Playhouse, Aurora Productions, Horizon, and the Village Playhouse.
  
  
• Nearly 85% of our alumni earn their primary paycheck from working in theatre within three months of graduation.
  
  
• Multiple Professional Workshops Yearly with casting directors, agents, directors, choreographers, and more, including nationally-recognized casting director (Dave Clemmons).
  
  
• On-Campus Auditions (Shorter Exclusive) for Professional Theatre Companies have included: McCleod Theatre, Lakes Region Theatre, Broadway Theatre Project, Lost Colony Theatre, and Disney (Theme Park Productions).
  
  
• 3 Charter Master Members of the National Creative Arts Society (awarded while in attendance at Shorter College).
  
  
• Two 2004 Musical Theatre BFAs and one 2003 Musical Theatre BFA were awarded corporate sponsored scholarships for entertaining Governor Sonny Perdue at a Georgia Cancer Benefit.
  
  
• Multiple student run theatre production companies: some have toured the state of Georgia as well as production companies that perform around and within Rome (as well as in The Shorter College Theatre Main-Stage and Second Stage Seasons).

COMMUNITY SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• Raised $5,000 for the DeSoto Theatre Restoration Project with the 2004 Fall Musical: West Side Story
• Raised over $700 for a local battered women’s shelter with a production of Woman As Verb (2006)
• Organized and participated in fundraisers for victims of Hurricane Katrina, for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and more

• Multiple invitations by such organizations as the Southeastern Theatre Conference, Georgia Thespian Conference, and Medallion Theatre to present audition workshops

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• For the past four years, 100% Graduate School Placement (for interested Shorter College applicants).
  
  
• Over-all departmental GPA of 3.54.
  
  
• Multiple Undergraduate Scholarship Seed Grant Awards for student proposed academic and praxis based projects.