'Big River' doubles as Galaxy event and Theatre Day feature

    

Theatre Day is an annual CSC event in which high school students from Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming are invited to campus to attend workshops. This year, performance, combat, makeup and design workshops will be presented by CSC students, faculty and Artist-in-Residence D. Kevin Williams.

Williams will portray “Jim” in the musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

The production will be held in the CSC Memorial Hall Auditorium Oct. 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. For tickets call: 308-432-6207 or email boxoffice@csc.edu.

Interviews with actors, scenes from Williams’ workshop at Chadron High School and the full cast list can be seen online in Behind the Scenes, produced by Daniel Binkard.

The residency for Williams, an Omaha, Nebraska, native, was made possible by a grant from the Nebraska Arts Council and funding from the CSC Galaxy Series.

Shellie Johns, who coordinates the Galaxy Series, said her goal is to ensure visiting artists like Williams have ample chances to interact with students across the campus and community.

He will perform in “Big River” for Job Corps students Oct. 1 and in a matinee for elementary and middle school students in partnership with the Chadron Library Foundation Board Oct. 3.

Williams’ wide range of performance credits include commercials, both local and regional, as well as radio and television voice-overs, most notably the Emmy-nominated animated children's series "Liberty's Kids." He has performed in Nebraska and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals, the recent film "For Love of Amy” and the National Broadway Company tour of "The Color Purple.”