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www.tanys.org Callboard - Volume XIX • Issue 2 • Fall 2022 Page12 TANYS Awards At Festival, the Theatre Association of New York State recognizes its member companies and individual members with awards. If you're a member of a theatrical company that you wish to nominate, or you know of individual members who have provided significant service to community theater, you have until October 20 to submit a nomination. Check out www.tanys.org/awards.html for application forms and further details. Shirley Cockrell Community Theatre Excellence Award Nominate a member company for the Shirley Cockrell Community Theatre Excellence Award, which recognizes a company that you feel provides exemplary service to its community. Fredric Blumberg Distinguished Volunteer Award The Fredric Blumberg Distinguished Volunteer Award is given to an individual under 65 who has provided significant service to community theatre for 15 years or more. Sherman C. Ward Jr. Distinguished Volunteer Award The Sherman C. Ward, Jr. Distinguished Volunteer Award is given to an individual above the age of 65 who has provided significant service to community theatre for over 25 years. Mary Eva Duthie Award This award is given to an individual or organization in the State who has made significant contributions to community and/or academic theatre. Take the time to recognize your faithful volunteers. We would love to give all of these awards away this year! TANYS Ruth R. Legg Memorial Scholarship Awardee Fiona Chisholm is a 2022 graduate of Auburn High School (AHS) in Auburn, NY. She now attends SUNY Fredonia, studying Musical Theatre in Fredonia’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Once Fiona participated in her first show in middle school ( TheMusicMan ), she fell in love with theatre. She participated in every musical throughout middle school and high school. Among her lead roles at Auburn High School, she played her namesake Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical . At AHS, Fiona participated in Orchestra, Chamber Singers and Select Choir Ensemble, and also took Music Theory. Fiona has also performed with Rhythm in Motion dance studio, and has done several shows with Auburn Players Community Theatre (APCT), including Li’l Abner , Scrooge: The Musical and Beauty and the Beast Jr. She replaced an original actor in APCT’s remounting of Antigone and Letters to Soldiers Lost , which won Best Long Production at the 2021 TANYS Festival – and where the audience enjoyed one of her special skills, playing the ukulele. “From participating in theatre, I have learned to be courageous, hard-working and ambitious. Those traits will lead me to a successful academic and musical life, wherever I end up,” notes Fiona. “This scholarship will help me achieve my long-term education and career goals of spreading joy and my passion for theatre everywhere I go.” At Fredonia, Fiona looks forward to learning new things, and teaching others new things by expressing characters and stories while onstage – inspiring people and helping them experience different lives. “Educational and community theatre can serve as a safe space and act as another family to a lot of people… it can really be an outlet for someone who has no other place that they can go.” Congratulations, Fiona! TANYS wishes you much success at SUNY Fredonia!