Class A Runner-Up - Ellsworth Regional Drama Festival 

All Festival Cast

Isabelle Peterson

Evangeline Meister 

Special Commendations

Grace Weed - Music Composition, Sound Design and Operation 

Brooke Stevens - Scenic Design and Box Grid

Isa Raven, Abigail Kimball and Aidan Fisichella - Video Design

Cayla Swanberg - Lighting Design and Operation

Ensemble Acting Award 

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MDI Drama's entry in the 2024 one act competition is "Interview: A Fugue for Eight Actors" written by avant-garde playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie and directed by Casey Rush. "Interview" premiered in 1966 as part of the America Hurrah trilogy, widely hailed as the watershed play of the sixties. This short play is at turns absurd, hilarious, and unsettling. In what one critic calls a "Hurricane of Horror," four jobseekers are ricocheted through ludicrous job interviews, chilly urban parties, and coffin-like subways as they search for human compassion. "Interview"'s stark reflection on modern technology, bureaucracy, social institutions, and war in the 1960s proves eerily relevant fifty years later.