January 9, 2009

UNL's Janice Stauffer Wins Prestigious Award

Lincoln, Neb.—Janice Stauffer, Associate Professor of Costume Design at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, University of Nebraska Lincoln, has been "selected by the Executive Committee of Region V to receive the highest honor that the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival can give: the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion," according to Tom Woldt, Chair of Region V and National Chair of Chairs for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

In a letter to Stauffer, Woldt explained, "Your work as a designer, teacher, festival-production designer and mentor, and, most especially, as a mentor to countless design students who have not only won numerous KCACTF awards and commendations, but who also now continue to carry the torch as teachers/designers/mentors in KCACTF (and elsewhere) make you a very deserving recipient of this award. This award is given for a significant body of work related to KCACTF and its students."

Stauffer will receive her medallion on Friday night, January 23, at the Region V Festival Awards ceremony at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.