University of Toledo Theatre Major Wins Film Festival Award
The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film is proud to announce that Jeannette Turner, a UT Theatre major, has won an award in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Region III Festival. Students from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio competed against each other in January 2008. Ms. Turner was chosen over five other students to be named Best Director of the 10 minute plays.
She directed “Stranded,” which was written by Goshen College student Mike Honerich, a play about a married couple stranded on a desert island. Ms. Turner had less than one week to prepare the play for a staged reading on Saturday, January 12. “Afterwards, the playwrights received a verbal response from adjudicators, one of whom said that he hadn’t realized the play was quite so funny until he heard it done – and he praised Jeannette for her ability to bring that out of the text,” said Holly Monsos, Chair of the Department of Theatre and Film.
Ms. Turner is a junior. She most recently has had roles both onstage and behind the scenes in the UT Fall production of Top Girls. As an actress, she has performed in many University of Toledo productions. She played the role of Heidi in Fuddy Meers in April 2004 and held multiple roles in recovery in the fall of 2006. She directed one of the “24 Hour Plays” in November of 2006 and most recently, directed For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf in February of 2007. Ms. Turner also enjoys singing and is an active¬ member of the UT Gospel Choir.
For more information on the Theatre program at The University of Toledo, please contact the Department of Theatre and Film at 419.530.2202.
