UH actors performing at American College Theater Festival in Los Angeles

HONOLULU—Twenty five members of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Department of Theatre and Dance are in Los Angeles this week at the invitation of the American College Theatre Festival to perform last season’s The Judith of Shimoda for other college theater students.  The festival’s venue is the Tom Bradley Theatre at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

“Judith” was selected last season to be one of 10 productions representing the best work in Region VIII, which includes Hawaii, Arizona, Central and Southern California, Southern Nevada, and Utah. 

As well as appearing in “Judith,” MFA acting students Dan D. Randerson, Ryan Wuestewald, and D’neka Patton will take part in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition. The students will be posting news at it happens on a Twitter account, @KennedyTheatre.

From the regional festivals, five productions will be selected to be performed in late spring at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The Judith of Shimoda was written by Bertolt Brecht and received its Hawaii premiere last May at Kennedy Theatre on the UH Manoa campus.