Three area students, currently enrolled as university performing arts majors, have been selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the Roy Hine Performing Arts Foundation Inc. to further their university study.
The three are:
- Erin Elizabeth Mills, a Warsaw Community High School graduate, currently seeking a bachelor's degree in theater at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Mills appeared in numerous productions while a student at WCHS, and was also a cast member of "The Sound of Music" and "Big: The Musical" at Wagon Wheel Theatre. In 2008 she received a $1,000 Indiana Thespian Conference scholarship.
- Chelsea Jane Rigdon, North Webster, a Wawasee graduate and theater major at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Rigdon most recently starred in the Bloomington Playwright's Project, "Chicks II" on the IU campus. She was also active in the Summer Youth Workshop at Wagon Wheel Theatre.
- Katy Pauline Merriman, Wabash, a Wabash High School graduate, is majoring in vocal performance at Butler University, Indianapolis.
Merriman has appeared in several Wagon Wheel Theatre productions, as well as productions at Fort Wayne Civic Theatre and productions at Wabash High School. She has also interned at Honeywell Center's Ford Theatre, Wabash.
The scholarships are awarded by the Roy Hine Performing Arts Foundation Inc. in its ongoing efforts in support of aspiring young professionals in keeping with the goals of the foundation's name sake, Roy Hine.A fourth university performing arts major, Amanda Miller, is currently an intern at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey with support from the Hine foundation.
