{"id":83201,"date":"2018-08-09T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=83201"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:05:19","slug":"2018-uh-pookela-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/09\/2018-uh-pookela-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> celebrates 2018 Po\u02bbokela award winners"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_83207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83207\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards.jpg\" alt=\"five people holding a plastic blue sheet\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nanaue the Teenage Sharkman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> students and faculty for their <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> Award nominations and wins. The <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> Awards have recognized excellence in local theatre since 1984. The awards recognize honorees in 23 different theatre arts categories spanning: producing, directing, performing, design and technical theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all who participated.<\/p>\n<h2>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64628\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-kennedy-spitfire.jpg\" alt=\"Cast of the Spitfire Grill\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-kennedy-spitfire.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-kennedy-spitfire-260x167.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellence in service: Melisa Orozco Vargas<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Bowman Award: Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak<\/li>\n<li>Theatrical design: Hannah Schauer Galli and Yan Ma, <em>Fights and Delights: Three Chinese Comedies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lighting design: Christopher Patrinos,<em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em>, <em>Beyond Therapy<\/em>, Jonah Bobilin, <em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Set design: Rachel Filbeck, <em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sound design and engineering: Brian Shevelenko and Alten Kiakona, <em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Featured male in a play: Donovan Oakleaf, <em>Nora<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Featured female in a play: Malia Wessel, <em>Nora<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leading female in a play: Christine Lamborn, <em>Nora<\/em>, Stacy Ray, <em>The Seagull<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ensemble performance in a musical: The cast of <em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Special adjudicator award: Yan Ma and Mark Branner, <em>Fights and Delights: Three Chinese Comedies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Director of non-traditional production: Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak and Mark Branner, <em>Fights and Delights: Three Chinese Comedies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Director of a play: Stacy Ray, <em>Nora<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Overall non-traditional production: <em>Fights and Delights: Three Chinese Comedies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Overall production of a play: <em>Nora<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Windward Community College<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards-2018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"two people dancing\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards-2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards-2018-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windward-pookela-awards-2018.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The King and I<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Costume design: Anna Foster, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lighting design: Lloyd Riford, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Set design: DeAnne Kennedy, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sound design and engineering: Daniel Yoo, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Featured male in a musical: Swaine Kaui, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leading male in a musical: Michael Ng, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leading female in a musical: Kathleen Stuart, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Choreography: Andrew Sakaguchi, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Musical direction of a musical: Clarke Bright, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Director of a musical: Mary Chesnut Hicks, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Overall production of a musical: <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Special adjudicator award: Faith Kaminaka, <em>The King and I<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> resident playwright\u2019s original work: Moses Goods, <em>Nanaue the Teenage Sharkman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lighting design: Janine Myers, <em>Nanaue the Teenage Sharkman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Set design: R. Andrew Doan, <em>Nanaue the Teenage Sharkman<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Leeward Community College<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83209\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leeward-pookela-awards-2018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Two people talking one is holding a binder the other is holding a clipboard\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leeward-pookela-awards-2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leeward-pookela-awards-2018-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leeward-pookela-awards-2018.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall play: <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leading male in a play: Jonathan Sabalboro, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leading female in a play: Juvy Lucina, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Featured male in a play: Justin Woznock, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Featured female in a play: Jarica Mae Abella and Kira Moriguchi, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Special adjudicator award (mask design): Michael Harada, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Director of a play: Betty Burdick, <em>She Kills Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Excellence in service: Chelsea Campbell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hittingthestage.com\/2018-pookelas\/\">Read a full list of all the nominees and winners for the 2018 <span aria-label=\"Pookela\">Po&#699;okela<\/span> Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the University of <span aria-label=\u201cHawaii\u201d>Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> students and faculty for their <span aria-label=\u201cPookela\u201d>Po&#699;okela<\/span> Award nominations and wins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[598,131,65,334,698,660,196,130,76,71,9,66],"class_list":["post-83201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-kennedy-theatre","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-paliku-theatre","tag-staff-recognition","tag-student-recognition","tag-leeward-community-college-theatre","tag-theatre","tag-theatre-and-dance","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83201","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=83201"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83222,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83201\/revisions\/83222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}