Actor among college students given the nod to compete for Irene Ryan Acting Award. Due to his fear of heights, Alex LaClair, of La Plata, almost didn’t get the role of ironworker Mike Dillard in the CSM fall production of “Working.” “The character, with a recurring role in the play, had to scale a ladder up to a structure resembling a steel girder—and stay there, 15 feet in the air, throughout the show,” LaClair said. LaClair researched the life of an ironworker to perform in the role of the unhappy worker who welds together stories about people and their jobs based on Chicago radio broadcaster Studs Terkel’s book by the same name. Not only did LaClair earn the role, and climb the ladder for six shows, his performance got the notice of members of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) nominating committee who chose him to compete with more than 250 other thespians for the Irene Ryan Acting Award. This was LaClair’s second appearance at the KCACTF in three years and his most productive. He auditioned for the Music Theatre Initiative and the New Playwright Program, and he wrote and directed “The War of Rose Cycle in One Act” […]
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