College Relations
Theater Production Wins Award
October 21, 2005
CONTACT --- Marianne Nicosia at (978) 542-7212 or marianne.nicosia@salemstate.edu
SALEM, Mass. - Salem State College's production of "Children of a Lesser God" recently won the New England Theatre Conference's Moss Hart Award for theater excellence.
Paul Mitri, director of the musical and a professor at the college said, "I feel that the Moss Hart Award looks for human dignity and how the human spirit can exhibit that. The students rose to a huge challenge."
For the performance, student performers learned sign language. "The show was a very difficult one to do. What they accomplished cannot be overstated," said Mitri.
The annual award honors the memory of Moss Hart, dramatist and director of numerous theatrical plays, for his enthusiasm for life and his wit and sensitivity. It recognizes college and university theatrical productions throughout New England each year.
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