  {"id":37428,"date":"2015-08-13T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37428"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:53:29","slug":"uh-manoa-theatre-garners-19-pookela-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/13\/uh-manoa-theatre-garners-19-pookela-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa theatre garners 19 <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/laieikawai-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/laieikawai-banner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/laieikawai-banner-260x171.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> State Theater Council recognized the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/liveonstage\/\">Department of Theatre and Dance<\/a> with 19 <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> Awards for Excellence at the 2015 Stars Night Out held on August 10, 2015. Kennedy Theatre&#8217;s production of <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em> received 10 awards, the most for any production.<\/p>\n<h2>Honorees<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Leading Male in a Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Timothy Callais, <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jason Kanda, <em>Joker<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Leading Female in a Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kyle Scholl, <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lillian M. Jones, <em>Ruined<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Karissa J. Murrell Myers, <em>Blithe Spirit<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Featured Female in a Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharon R. Garcia Doyle, <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sharon R. Garcia Doyle, <em>Blithe Spirit<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ensemble Performance in a Musical<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Director of a Musical<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tammy <span aria-label=\"Hailiopua\">Haili&#699;&#333;pua<\/span> Baker, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Musical Direction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snowbird Bento and Keawe Lopes, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dance Choreographer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snowbird Bento, Keawe Lopes, Sami L.A. Akuna and Wailana Simcock, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overall Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Blithe Spirit<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overall Musical<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Costume Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheri Vasek, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Set Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Eccles, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Light Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kelsey Peacock, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hair, Makeup and Wig Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snowbird Bento, Cheri Vasek and Caroline Mercier, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Special Adjudicator Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peleki Flores and Kupono <span aria-label=\"Kawaa\">Kawa&#699;a<\/span>, Fight Choreography, <em><span aria-label=\"Laieikawai\">L&#257;&#699;ieikawai<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Yiling Liu, Original Script, <em>Joker<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Service Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nicole Tessier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> State Theater Council recognized <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s Department of Theatre and Dance with 19 <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> Awards for Excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[113,78,131,133,660,130,76,9],"class_list":["post-37428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-dance","tag-kennedy-theatre","tag-music","tag-student-recognition","tag-theatre","tag-theatre-and-dance","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37428"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146099,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions\/146099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}