The Fay McKenna Scholarship
West End Players Guild is honoring artistic director Fay McKenna for her 50th anniversary with the company with the creation of the Fay McKenna Scholarship.
The $500 scholarship will presented annually to a college junior majoring in theatre. The WEPG board will choose the recipient in conjunction with the head of the theatre department of the designated university.
The award will rotate among St. Louis area colleges and universities.
Recipients
West End Players Guild is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Fay McKenna Scholarship, St. Louis University junior Lindsey Trout.
Ms. Trout is president of the St. Louis University chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, a national theatre honor society. She will appear next month in the Muddy Waters Theatre production of Night of the Iguana, and in August in King Lear for St. Louis Shakespeare.
Ms. Trout will be presented with the scholarship at the annual West End Players Guild awards ceremony and picnic in Tower Grove Park in August.