The Governor’s Arts Awards will be given out tomorrow (March 5), and one of the finalists is New College’s own Charles St. Clair. He was nominated in the Arts in Education, Individual category.
St. Clair’s many accomplishments over his 22 years at the West campus include his production of a theatrical production and video documentary entitled “August in April,” in honor of the late African American playwright August Wilson. St. Clair and New College colleagues applied successfully for a a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant to document “Stories from the Other Side,” referring to those persons left behind in Africa when family members were taken away as slaves. He also is known for his reenactment of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the annual March on West event on the West campus.
“I have witnessed Charles give tirelessly and freely to his students his knowledge, experience and expertise,” said Christopher Haines, artistic director of iTheatre Collaborative in Phoenix. “His former students are at the top of their professions from the studios of Hollywood to the Broadway stages of New York. We are professional actors, directors, designers, stage managers, producers and agents all across the country.”
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