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Awards
AACT Fellows for 2007-08
Morrie served as Artistic/Managing Director of La Crosse Community Theatre (LCCT) in Wisconsin for 18 years. During his tenure there, Morrie directed over 90 plays and led LCCT to receive numerous awards at the state, regional, and national levels of AACTFest. His production of Cotton Patch Gospel placed third in the national AACTFest ’97 and was performed in Heidelberg, Germany as the showcase performance for the AACT Region X Festival. The Fantasticks represented the United States at the first Yakumo International Theatre Festival in Japan, receiving the People’s Choice Award. Morrie has presented workshops on directing,
musical theatre direction, and media relations (the infamously titled
“Confessions of a Media Slut”), and he has facilitated AACT’s Community Theatre
Management Conference. As an adjudicator, Morrie has worked on the state and
regional levels. He served six years on the AACT board of directors as Region
III Representative and Vice President for Membership and continues to serve on
the Membership Committee. He was instrumental in planning and negotiating the
"Act Locally, AACT Nationally" program. Morrie is also a musical theatre
recording collector and sometime-New York City tour guide.
Linda M. Lee, Executive Director of Texas Nonprofit Theatres, Inc. (TNT) since April 1, 1995, is a Cum Laude honors graduate of Texas Christian University with a BFA in Theatre. She began her career as a company member at Casa Maņana, a professional theatre in Fort Worth, where she served as actor, teacher, costumer, and administrator for the Playhouse for six years. She also wrote the music and lyrics for three children’s musicals with playwright Frances Seidensticker, and sang with the musical group, Camp & Company. In 1979 she joined the fledgling Creative Arts Theatre & School (CATS) as an administrative consultant, later becoming Administrative Director and then Executive Director in 1987. She helped build the youth theatre into one of Arlington’s largest arts entities, with enrollment of approximately 1,000 students per year. Along with administrative duties, she served as an instructor for advanced level acting students, touring company director, director for main stage productions, composer, and photographer. As an actor, Lee appeared professionally onstage in such roles as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella in Cinderella, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Lee was a Board member for TNT from 1988 through 1994 and served as Secretary for two years. She is on the Boards of Directors of the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County, serving as Treasurer, and Texans for the Arts, for which she is the Secretary; she is also Vice President of Education on the AACT Board. In November 2002, she was inducted into the Southwest Theatre and Film Association’s (SWTFA) College of Fellows for her contributions to theatre in the Southwest region, and in November 2003 received the SWTFA Darrell Woolwine/Coy Sharp Community Theatre Award. She served on the
Theatre/Musical Theatre Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004,
and received the Theatre Arts Advocate of the Year Award from the Live Theatre
League of Tarrant County in 2005. This year she has served on the Theatre Panels
for the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and the Houston Arts Alliance.
Lee is married to Casa Maņana lighting designer Jay Isham. They have one son,
Preston, who is also active in theatre.
Kathie Maldonado’s theatre career began in New Mexico with Community Players of Hobbs, where she has served many years in all Board positions, including several terms as President in addition to acting, directing, and producing shows. She was a founding leader in Theatre New Mexico, serving as President and senior Board Advisor. Kathie is President of the Southwest Theatre & Film Association (SWTFA), following a term as VP Conferences. Previously she served the Southwest as the AACT Region VI Representative. She has served AACT as Vice President for Festivals and currently is a Member at Large on the AACT Board. She chairs the AACT Adjudication Committee and is an AACT Festival Commision Representative, supporting and assisting festivals all over the country. Kathie has received numerous awards from SWTFA, Theatre New Mexico, Community Players of Hobbs, the Boy Scouts, and the Rotary Club. She was inducted into the SWTFA College of Fellows and was named Lea County Outstanding Woman in 2003. She received AACT’s Special Recognition Award in 2005. She is
married to Frank (for 44 years), mother of three sons and two daughters, proud
grandmother of five.
Jim Sohre began his 31-year career in Army Entertainment as a Music Specialist at Fort Dix, NJ, where he established a Cabaret Theatre, Soldier (Rock) Music Center, Fort Dix Chorus, and Trainee Chorus programs. His All-Soldier Show was a top winner in the All-Army Festival of the Performing Arts. As Theatre Specialist in Fort Ord, CA, he opened Stilwell Hall dinner theatre. As the Community Entertainment Director in Mainz, Germany, he created the new Center Stage Theatre, and two soldier Music Centers. As Entertainment Director of the Frankfurt Military Community, he developed season subscription and audience development programs; opened Candlelight Dinner Theatre; programmed entertainment for the annual German-American Volksfest and Independence Day programs; directed annual multi-national German-American friendship concerts in the Alte Oper (Old Opera); hosted numerous celebrity shows and V Corps level entertainment contests; and was named Best Director, 1996 and 1983 All-Europe Play Contests. Jim has been the Army Europe Command Entertainment (Theatre and Music) Director in Heidelberg, Germany since 1995. He has been instrumental in developing Army-wide Quality of Life standards for the theatre and music participation programs; established comprehensive community theatre training programs and contests including the annual Tournament of Plays, and the One Act Play Festival; assisted in the development of Army overseas theatres in the creation of AACT’s Region X; established the annual Stars of Tomorrow soldier entertainment contest; coordinated touring shows for all US Forces sites in Iceland, UK, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and the deployed sites in the Balkans; and solicited and coordinated celebrity shows. He was given the first annual James T. Martin Award for individual achievement in Army Entertainment; has been named MWR World-Wide Career Employee of the Year; is recipient of AACT’s Distinguished Merit Award; and was honored with the Army White Plume Award, the highest possible Morale, Welfare, and Recreation accolade, as well as the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service. Jim is the
Chair of the International Committee of AACT, and travels extensively throughout
the world, attending opera and theatre.
Fellows of the American
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of Community Theatre 2006 Joanne Berry (Bay City MI) Bill Muchow (Minneapolis, MN) Hal Robinson (Royal Oak, MI) 2003
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