Theatre student wins Phi Kappa Phi scholarship

BATON ROUGE, LA— Melora Slotnick of Jonesboro was awarded a Study Abroad Grant worth $1,000 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The daughter of Melina and Michael Slotnick, she is a theatre student at Columbus State University. Slotnick will travel to the United Kingdom to continue her studies and broaden her horizons.
This honor counts Slotnick among fifty students nationwide to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant. This program is designed to help support undergraduates as they seek knowledge and experience in their academic fields by studying abroad.

Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually more than 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.

Theatre professor published in Dramatics magazine

In the first of two articles (January and May 2009) in Dramatics Magazine , CSU Technical Director Scott C. Parker describes the fundamental objectives of the lighting designer’s work, the designer’s process of script analysis, and the use of research to envision what the show should look like. This month, May 2010, he outlines the next steps: figuring out where to hang the lighting instruments and how to control them to achieve the effects shown in the rendering, and communicating those solutions to the stage crew who will hang the lights in the theatre.

Dramatics is the Educational Theatre Association’s magazine for theatre students and teachers. Published monthly nine times a year (September through May), the magazine contains practical articles on acting, directing, design, and other facets of theatre; profiles of working professionals that offer insights into theatre careers; new plays; book reviews; news about new productions in New York and other major theatre centers; and a monthly calendar of EdTA events.