Congratulate these students on their summer endeavors! If YOU are a major, minor, or involved in MTD and want your name (or your student’s name) listed, please email Shannon at sbskelton@ksu.edu. We want to hype the good work students are doing!
Nikela Reed – McNair Research Project and Grant
https://www.k-state.edu/mcnair/about.html
Bernie Poulter – “I’m working at Tent Theatre in Springfield, Missouri as a stitcher and wardrobe assistant.” https://tenttheatre.missouristate.edu/
Michael Pierce – “I’m going to New Mexico to perform with Four Corners Musical Theatre. This summer, I will be in Spamalot and Into the Woods.”
(Masie, Drew, and Annelise – all listed below – are also doing summer stock with Four Corners)
http://fmtn.org/869/Four-Corners-Musical-Theatre-Company
Elizabeth Smith – Going to Chicago
Jackson Berland – “I’ll start with a fine carpentery apprenticeship in Lawrence. In late May, I’ll be at the Eugene O’Neill Center for their annual national puppetry convention where I’ll be taking classes in puppet mechanisms. After that, I’m taking a quick apprenticeship in kombucha making back in Lawrence. In late June, I’ll be moving to Paris to take classes in architecture for a month and traveling around.”
https://www.theoneill.org/pup
Masie Dulitz – “I will be performing at the four corners theater company in Spamalot as a Laker girl and featured ensemble member and into the woods singing a Cinderella’s mom and performing in the ensemble this summer!”
Ashlyn Wills – “I will be working at Topeka Civic Theater this summer as a counselor for their summer camp. This will be my first time working as a camp counselor, and I am so excited for it!”
https://topekacivictheatre.com/tct-classes-and-camps
Nicole Middleton (Drama Therapy)- “I will be beginning full time at the Center for Creative Arts Therapy in Downers Grove, IL as a creative arts therapist and community coordinator in July.”
https://www.c4creativeartstherapy.com/
Jayden Gittle – Moving to KC and student teaching in the Fall.
Annelise Mock – “Heading to Farmington, NM as a core performer at Four Corners Musical Theatre Company.”
Drew Scrivner – Four Corners Musical Theatre Company
McKenna Moten – Topeka Summer Theatre Camp
Ginger Harris – “I’m planning to work at the Pablo Center at the confluence – a performing arts center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.”
Emmett Spaw – “I’ll be directing the youth theatre production of Peter Pan at the Columbian in June and July. Otherwise my summer will be writing, writing, and more writing.”
Morgan Boyer – Working at McCain over the summer and will be teaching high school in Norman, Oklahoma
Francis Sheehan – “I’m interning for Shawnee theatre in the park this summer! I’m helping with lighting!”
Clever Christian – “This summer I’m going to work as a master electrician and audio tech for Showboat Theatre in Clinton, Iowa”
Emma Lipscomb (Drama Therapy) – “I will be teaching improv at the Springer Opera House in Columbus, GA this summer.”
Megan Longton (Drama Therapy) – “After graduation this summer, I will be working at Stage Door Studios, LLC, in Chandler, AZ, directing a youth theatre production of The Lightning Thief and will continue teaching and directing there in the fall!”
Jay Garrison – Theatre Camp in Topeka
Merri Bork (Drama Therapy) – “I will be leading a summer theatre program through Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD.”
Kirsten Ajax (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Nick Webster (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Lauren Cookson (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Amanda Danski (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Kat Christensen (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Sabrina Handy (Drama Therapy) – Manhattan Parks and Recreation for adults with IDD
Jonah Nichols – “This summer I am spending June in London at Shakespeare’s Globe through a travel agency called AIFS and in July I am returning as a counselor for a theater camp in the Panhandle of Oklahoma called 7 Days of Broadway where the show for the month will be the Sound of Music and at the camp the kids (ages 12-19) arrive on Saturday and then perform the next Saturday, the counselors are there for the week before to work on the set and whatever else we need to do before the kids arrive.”
Sabrina Rodriguez-Handy (Drama Therapy) will be teaching American Sign Language classes for the community through the UFM. She will also be leading an Intimacy and Consent workshop at her undergraduate school, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. She has also been recently hired as a theatre instructor at the Manhattan Arts Center for the Youth Theatre Camp.
Tess Bennett – Working as a counselor at a summer camp
