Enterprise student a finalist in acting competition

BIRMINGHAM — Six students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre were honored for their work at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional competition Feb. 3-8, in Greensboro, N.C. One student, Dustin Cañez, will travel to Washington, D.C., in April for the national competition, all expenses paid.

Cañez won the regional competition for the KCACTF Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Student Directing Fellowship Award. As the regional winner, Cañez will compete at the national festival April 13-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where he will participate in workshops and have the opportunity to win a summer internship at a professional theater as a director. At the national festival, Cañez will direct a short play by one of the winning student playwrights from a regional KCACTF festival.

Sarah Hereford of Huntsville won the KCACTF Region IV Irene Ryan Competition Comedy Acting Award for performing a comedic scene.

Jordan Bohl of Athens and Kendra Peine of Birmingham were named finalists in the KCACTF Region IV David Weiss Design Competition. Hereford and Emilie Soffe of Enterprise were named finalists in the KCACTF Region IV Irene Ryan Acting Competition.