Walden Theatre Student Wins Shakespeare Contest 5/2

Walden Theatre student Katie Scott is bound for New York to perform a monologue and a sonnet in the National Shakespeare Competition on May 2, 2011.

The contest, held annually by the
English Speaking Union of the United States, pays travel expenses for winners from each of the organization's 58 regional branches to visit New York and compete in Lincoln Center. The winner receives a full tuition scholarship to study acting in England. The runner-up receives a full tuition scholarship to attend the American Shakespeare Centre's Theater Camp in Staunton, VA. The third place winner is awarded $500 by The Shakespeare Society.

Katie, a junior at Christian Academy of Louisville in her 5th year with Walden Theatre, won the competition for the Kentucky branch in early March, performing Hermione's monologue from The Winter's Tale, act III scene ii and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. She currently takes part in the acting Conservatory as well as the New Voices Playwriting class at Walden Theatre (a collaboration between Walden and Actors Theatre).

Katie's short play Much Ado Signifyin' Nothin' was produced for the 2011 Young Playwrights Festival. Her acting credits include the plays Camino Real by Tennessee Williams and Timon of Athens by Shakespeare among many others, and she will appear in Antony & Cleopatra May 12-22 in Walden Theatre's Young American Shakespeare Festival. She can be seen performing through March 19 in All's Well that Ends Well with Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company.

Walden Theatre students have won the Kentucky branch of the contest 14 of the past 17 years, including Adam Brown who won the national competition in New York in 2007. His performance is viewable on YouTube by clicking here.

Walden Theatre maintains a strong commitment to Shakespeare literacy, and students focus on Shakespeare for one term of each year as we prepare for our Young American Shakespeare Festival--the largest and longest-running Shakespeare Festival for young people in the U.S.

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