2025 -2026 Performing Grant$ for Theatre!
Auditions/Interviews:
Dates: March 25 & 26, 2025
Times: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Where: Taylor Hall Theatre (T209), Canton Campus
TECH/CREW Candidates: Prospective students interested in TECH/CREW experience will interview during this time. Grants are available in lights and sound, stage management, props, hair and makeup, and other areas.
ACTING Candidates: Prospective students interested in ACTING will prepare one 2-minute comic monologue and one 2-minute dramatic monologue. These need not be memorized.
Grants are available to students in any program major, not just theatre. Grants awarded are for 2025-2026 academic year. Grant amounts will vary.
Go here to complete a Spoon River College Theatre/STAGE Application for 2025 – 2026 Performing Grant.
For more information about the SRC Theatre Program, contact Douglas Okey at 309-649-6308 or Email Douglas Okey.
SRC Drama Program
The SRC Drama Program has an academic curriculum that includes acting courses as well as drama-oriented classes for humanities and fine-arts credit. Each academic year, student-centered performance opportunities are available with planned productions in both fall and spring semesters. The Drama Program offers performing grants (scholarships) to recognize and reward the work of talented students.
In the academic year 2015-16, the student organization STAGE: SRC Theatre Artists Group for Education was created. The group has as its advisor SRC drama and English instructor Douglas Okey. STAGE provides support and awareness for the program as well as a pool of interested and talented students to participate in theatre productions.
The SRC Drama Program has produced graduates who have gone onto careers in performance, including TV and film actor David Pires and, most recently, New York stage performer Kyle Motsinger. A student from the 1990s, Jacob Welch, is a theatre professor and award-winning lighting designer.
In the years since founding director Bob Gorg retired in 2008, the program has undergone various transitions. Most recently, in the 2013-14 academic year, the program had been in hiatus for the purpose of rebuilding. During that year, our “black-box” theatre production space was extensively renovated and updated through the expert consultation of SRC graduate Jacob Welch.
For more information about upcoming productions and opportunities in the SRC Drama Program, contact Douglas Okey or by phone at (309) 649-6308.