The 24 Hour Plays: Bennington

Thursday, Feb 16 2023, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Virtual Event
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Thursday, Feb 16 2023 8:00 PM Thursday, Feb 16 2023 10:00 PM America/New_York The 24 Hour Plays: Bennington OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington talent, composed of alumni and friends, will create virtual performances in just 24 hours. Proceeds from the benefit will go towards the Nicky Martin Memorial Scholarship for Performing Arts and the Spencer Cox '90 Field Work Term Fellowship for Student Activists at Bennington College. Virtual Event Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington talent, composed of alumni and friends, will create virtual performances in just 24 hours. Proceeds from the benefit will go towards the Nicky Martin Memorial Scholarship for Performing Arts and the Spencer Cox '90 Field Work Term Fellowship for Student Activists at Bennington College.

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About the Nicky Martin Scholarship
The Nicky Martin Memorial Scholarship for Performing Arts at Bennington College is awarded on an annual basis to a continuing (third or fourth year) outstanding student with financial need who has an academic concentration in the performing arts (including theater, dance, music, and film) and who has a demonstrated history of, and a passion for, creative and high caliber work in the performing arts. The scholarship is named in honor of Nicky (Joel) Martin, the Tony-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater director and beloved former faculty member at Bennington College. Martin was an actor for most of his life and turned to directing when he was in his early 40s. He was at Bennington from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s and inspired a younger generation of directors and actors with whom he continued to work throughout his career at the Huntington Theater Company and the Williamstown Theater Festival. He was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding director of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, which featured Justin Theroux ’93 and casting by Amy Christopher '89, and was also the Lucille Lortel Award winner for outstanding set design by Alexander Dodge ’93. About the Spencer Cox '90 FWT Fellowship The Spencer Cox '90 FWT Fellowship is awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding Bennington student(s) in their third or fourth year with a passion for social activism and demonstrated commitment to socially conscious action. Recipients are those who bring a fearless spirit and incisive intellect to bear on pressing social issues in the ways that Spencer demonstrated in his lifetime. Spencer, who died in 2012, was a pivotal member of ACT UP, the direct-action advocacy group with a mission to end AIDS. He played a defining role in the formation of the Treatment Action Group (TAG) to focus on accelerating AIDS treatment research and lent creative intellect and intense focus to help fight one of the most pressing social and public health crises of our time.