After seven months of research and work, Marciel Greene, senior theater design and technology major, was invited to the American College and Theater Festival in April at the Kennedy Center in New York.
Greene received recognition for her work on the lighting crew for the play "In the Blood," which was performed last fall. Greene is the fifth Ball State University student to participate in the festival in the past five years.
"In the Blood" staff began working on lighting design and production in April of last year, Greene said.
"I took a display that represents your process as a designer," she said. So I read the play and saw rehearsals and came up with a concept of my own lighting purposes which was that the texture represented the main character's realization of reality."
The competition features a work from each of the nine regions in the U.S. Undergraduate and graduate students compete in different categories.
This was her third time working for a university play. Greene said she was looking forward to the competition and the learning experience.
"Of course I'd like to win," she said, "but I'd also like to make good connections and meet other people in the industry."
Eight other light designers will compete, she said. They will do workshops and be taught by several prominent lighting designers.
Greene started her freshman year as an art and dance major and changed to lighting design the next summer.
Wendy Mortimer, assistant professor of theater and dance, directed "In the Blood." She said Greene's experience in the dance area helped give her a better understanding of how to design lighting.
"She really mirrored, in terms of the essence, the action on the stage," she said. "What it would look like in terms of mood, tone, color and rhythm and everything else, so it was a perfect parallel to the action on stage."
Mortimer said she was proud of Greene for having insight when creating her designs.
"Marcie is the kind of artist that everybody wants to work with," she said. "Because she has a clear understanding of her role as a lighting design, but also has an empathetic response to story-telling, and she also has the technical skill to create that."
Mortimer said she believes Greene will succeed because of her multiple talents and determination.
"The department is really proud of her," she said. "She is something that is in it for the long haul, and we look forward to see all the different things that she is going to do when she continues and graduates."
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