AMERICUS--Jeff Green, associate professor of theater and chair of the Department of Dramatic Arts at Georgia Southwestern State University, has just been chosen as the Region IV recipient of the Teaching Artist Award for 2008 by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). This regional award is given in appreciation of Green’s reputation and achievement as a teacher and as an artist and in recognition of his record of dedication to KCACTF. Region IV includes 10 southeastern states Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
            In addition to this regional recognition, Green is now also the Region IV nominee for the National Teaching Artist Grants program, a program that supports teaching artists in a variety of ways and can be used to underwrite tuition, travel, meals or costs associated with an extended professional residency in the applicants’ area of discipline.

These grants can be applied to the KCACTF Playwriting or Design Intensive, the O’Neill National Critics Institute, the Actors Center Teacher Development Workshop, Shakespeare & Company Training Intensives, cross-disciplinary projects, research time at the Stratford Festival Archives, and other activities.

Prior to his tenure at GSW, Green was the director of theater at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the artistic director of the Great Platte River Playwright’s Festival, a play development program encompassing the entire nation. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a Master of Fine Arts in Theater from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, KCACTF is a national theater program involving 600 academic institutions which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. Since its inception, KCACTF has given more than 400,000 college theater students the opportunity to have their work critiqued, improve their dramatic skills and receive national recognition for excellence.

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