Thursday, February 27, 2020

Save The Date

We've picked the production!

Children's Musical Theatre Workshop
Grades K - 8
June 15 - 20, 2020
Denison, Iowa

Mark your calendar for a musical workshop that's
guaranteed to satisfy your acting interests

Sponsored by the Donna Reed Foundation
Registration forms in April

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Watch “Les Miz” Tour Preston Truman Boyd's Performance of 'Stars'

Preston Truman Boyd
2004 Donna Reed Scholar
Vocal and Musical Theatre

Donna Reed Award Recipient

Preston Truman Boyd is currently on the road playing Inspector Javert on the national tour of Les Misérables. The production recently closed a three-day run at the Orpheum Theatre in Omaha the latter part of January.

Boyd’s Broadway credits include Kiss Me, Kate, The Play That Goes Wrong, Sunset Boulevard, She Loves Me, One the Twentieth Century, Bullets Over Broadway and Big Fish.

Boyd was a 2004 Donna Reed National Scholarship recipient in both Vocal Music and Musical Theatre.

Read the Broadway.com article and watch his performance of “Stars.”


Signature Theatre’s “A Chorus Line” Earns 9 Helen Hayes Award Nominations

Ben Gunderson
2005 Scholar  - Musical Theatre

Donna Reed Scholarship recipient among nominees

Signature Theatre’s A Chorus Line received nine Helen Hayes Award nominations, including Outstanding Musical, Direction, and Ensemble, in the Hayes category (for predominantly Equity productions).

Ben Gunderson (2005 Donna Reed National Award Recipient in Musical Theater) is nominated as a member of the best-ensemble nominee “A Chorus Line” by Signature Theatre. He is originally from Moorhead, MN.

Helen Hayes Awards recognizing excellence in theater in the Washington, D.C., area.