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Congratulations to all the students who were recognized at the Media Arts End-of-Year student celebration! Listed below are the awards that were given to the media arts students.

THE TASTE OF SUNRISE

TWELFTH NIGHT

BYU YOUNG COMPANY–THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

MISALLIANCE

Playbill's Robert Viagas detailed the annual award winners for outstanding achievement announced by the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. BYU's Single Wide debuted at the festival and garnered four awards, the second highest number of awards of any show in the festival. . To read more information, visit https://cfac.byu.edu/2015/07/29/single-wide-wins-big-at-new-york-musical-theatre-festival/.

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND MEDIA ARTS BYU THEATRE 2015/16 The Brigham Young University Department of Theatre and Media Arts presents a variety of drama, comedy, and musical theatre favorites and premieres for all to enjoy.

KCACTF 2015 Results This past week, over forty TMA theatre students and fourteen faculty, staff, and administrators participated in the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, which took place at SUU in St. George.

The BYU Young Company celebrated it's 40th anniversary on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 with the opening of A Mid-summer Night's Dream, directed by Nat Reed. Julia Ashworth and Becky Wallin planned a wonderful event honoring Harold Oaks, the founder of Young Company. Haley Flanders, the dramaturg for The Fisherman's Wife, put together a slide show that featured photos from most of the touring Young Company shows from past years, including slides of George and Leslie Nelson, when they met on Rumplestilskin, David Morgan, Teresa Love, and Becky Wallin. Over a 100 people attended, including many company members from past shows. After the show, Julia, Amy Jensen, and Harold Oaks spoke, and then the audience moved to Studio A where refreshments were served. Rodger Sorensen, Teresa Love, and Deb Tholen Escalante performed a delightful number reminiscent of their days as touring company members, "Into the Van." Megan Ann Rasmussen, another past president of the national TYA organization and TMA alum, also spoke to the group. Kudos to our outstanding Young Company! Be sure you get a chance to bring a young friend to the delightful puppeted production of A Mid-summer Night's Dream.

Saturday (Feb. 12 –14), the TMA department hosted a Video Game Studies Symposium, the brainchild of our own Benjamin Thevenin. More than ten different academic departments were represented at the symposium, with over forty presenters including many undergraduate media arts students. Presentations were well attended. Over sixty students volunteered their services the days of the symposium to help things run smoothly, and over a hundred people attended the symposium opening social on Thursday evening. You may have noticed all the living room sofas from different decades assembled around video game consoles. Attendees of the symposium had a great time experiencing what it was like in the 1970s, 80s, or 90s to play the games of that era. Saturday morning, Jason Anthony, an Associate Editor with Time, Inc.who is also a game designer and scholar, gave the keynote address of the symposium following a delicious breakfast. Benjamin met Jason when he was in graduate school, studying the intersection of religion and gaming. Jason's presentation was titled, "ImMortal Kombat: Conflict, Chaos and Redemption through (Better) Gaming," which explored some of those intersections. Benjamin observed, "It was great to see our media arts students present along side professors." The symposium, thanks to the contributions of so many people, including the conference committee, Bronte Campbell, Seth Holladay, Kelyn Ikegami, Hunter Philips, Jennessa Smith and Sharon Swenson, was a huge success!

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (10)

THE WINTER'S TALE

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The Fisherman and His Wife