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Follow on Google News | Grand Rapids Theatre Director Honored at International EventPenelope Notter, Associate Director Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, receives AACT Distinguished Merit Award.
In addition, Notter was recently awarded the prestigious Robert A McKenna Community Theatre Achievement Award. Presented by the Community Theatre Association of Michigan (CTAM) this annual recognition is bestowed to an individual who exhibits, through action, commitment and dedication, his or her support of community theatre on the state and local level. Nominees are recommended by peers for review and consideration by the CTAM Board of Directors. Notter has served as an adjudicator for high school productions and festivals. She has organized and participated in numerous high school career days promoting theatre as a career and community theatre in general. Notter has directed over 70 productions at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Circle Theatre, Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, and Grand Valley State University. A very accomplished actress, she also performs. Statewide Notter has served as a workshop leader for CTAM and continues to lend her expertise for acting and directing workshops. Her Directing Master Class has been noted as being “one of the best.” An advocate for children’s theatre, she has served on related state committees for training sessions and workshops. Nationally, Notter served as AACT Workshop Chair (97-03), planning all of the workshops for AACT Festivals. She has been a Member at Large for AACT, served on the AACT Education Committee and AACT Adjudication Committee. In addition, she has served as a national workshop instructor and leader. There are many reasons that one could write about in honor of Notter and all she has done for community theatre, but the most poignant characteristic is Notter’s ‘P-Factor;’ # # # GR Civic Theatre - 4th largest community theatre in the country and the nation's leading school of theatre arts. Pro-quality productions offer avocational performance and technical opportunity and school instructs movement, dance, voice, acting and tech. End
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