NA Native Wins A Kennedy Center American College Theatre Award

NORTH ANDOVER — Ted Silva, a North Andover native, has been awarded a Kennedy Center American College Theater award for his performance as a scene partner while a sophomore at Salem State University, according to the Eagle-Tribune.

Salem State professor William Cunningham's play "A Small Death in a Big Country" was submitted for contention for the 2017 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival awards. Silva was awarded the Best Scene Partner award for his work with fellow student Macey Jennings, who was in the running for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship.

Silva competed against of college students from the Northeast region and he had been nominated for the preliminary round of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition.

The Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival is a national theater program involving 20,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide each year. The regional awards for New England wrapped up the first week of February, and the national awards are at the Kennedy Center in Washington in April.

Silva, who is pursuing a double bachelor of fine arts in theater performance and English, recently played the lead role in the university's production of "Clybourne Park" that ran from Feb. 23 to March 5.

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Courtesy photo of Ted Silva.