The Tony Awards have announced that Virginia educator Madeline Michel will receive the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award. Michel is the theater director at Monticello High School in Charlottesville. Michel's drama program took on a heightened resonance in 2017 when, in the aftermath of the Charlottesville rally, Michel and her students used theater to address racial inequality, elevating and leading th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM on May 23, 2019