[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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 HONORING UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, WEBER STATE, AND BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

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                          HON. KAREN SHEPHERD

                                of utah

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 28, 1994

  Ms. SHEPHERD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
honor the University of Utah, Weber State, and Brigham Young University 
for being chosen to participate in the American College Theater 
Festival, hosted by the Kennedy Center, April 18 through April 30, 
1994. To have even one of our fine colleges participate in ACTF is an 
honor, but to have three colleges chosen to participate in this 
prestigious event is simply amazing and points to the hard work and 
find acting of each of the schools' drama departments. Their 
performances are as follows: The University of Utah, ``Kiss of the 
Spider Women;'' Weber State, ``The Pirated Penzance;'' Brigham Young 
University, ``Prisoner.''
  But it is not just the colleges that I wish to honor. James A. Bell, 
who directed ``Prisoner,'' received the National Student Playwriting 
Award. In addition, Keven P. Rahm, who played the lead in the 
production, received the Irene Ryan Acting Competition Award, which 
awards two college students a $2,500 scholarship to be used at the 
institution of their choice. Rahm also won the National Stage Combat 
Workshop Fellowship and will spend 3 weeks this summer learning how to 
use the tools of stage combat. In 1991, another Utahn, Scott Claflin, 
was a recipient of the Irene Ryan Acting Competition Award. In 1986, 
the University of Utah performed ``Idioglossia,'' as part of the 
festival.
  The American College Theater festival was started in 1969 by the 
Kennedy Center's founding chairman Roger L. Stevens. The ACTF is a 
national, year-round theater program involving 18,000 students from 
colleges and universities nationwide. Since its inception, ACTF has 
given more than 132,000 college theater students the opportunity to 
have their work critiqued, improve their dramatic skills and receive 
national recognition for excellence. More than 15 million theatergoers 
have attended approximately 8,000 festival productions nationwide.
  We salute the drama departments of the University of Utah, Weber 
State, and Brigham Young University for their award-winning 
performances.

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