Howard County Student-Actors Honored
Bill Strauss, co-founder of the Cappies -- Critics and Awards Program for High School Theater -- said he will ask R&H to let the actors perform their song at the Washington area Cappies gala in two weeks.
"No one is going to tell Nick or Jay, or you, what roles you can or cannot play because of your racial or ethnic background," he told the audience last night.
N.Y. Woman Wins Literary Award
Claire Tomkin graduated yesterday from Washington College $53,000 richer and the winner of the nation's largest undergraduate literary prize.
A panel of English professors at the small liberal arts college in Chestertown, Md., awarded the 21-year-old English major from Brooklyn, N.Y., the Sophie Kerr Prize for her short stories.
Previous winners of the annual award have become creative writing professors, editors and published authors. But none has hit it big as a literary superstar.
Tomkin said that she's delighted by the money and the award but that it won't change her plan to work as an elementary or middle school teacher in New York while she pursues her literary career.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If you think about it, people want to be famous. Whether in a positive or a negative way, they're still famous. It's all about 15 minutes of fame and getting your moment on TV."
-- Sue Langham, a line producer for an MTV reality show that auditioned hundreds of women on Connecticut Avenue yesterday for a girl band. -- B1
Compiled from reports by staff writers Karlyn Barker and Sari Horwitz and the Associated Press.
