about Ken Rush

My playwright experience begins in Texas where we advanced yearly in the University Interscholastic League One-Act Play Competitions and took first place out of all Texas 4AAAA high schools for our production of THE FOREIGNER. My students regularly attended the annual Texas State Thespian Festival where we were featured as the All-Festival Mainstage presentation on three different occasions. Our productions of FENCES, A FLEA IN HER EAR and NUNSENSE were viewed, in their entirety, for all Festival participants. I also taught in Florida where my productions repeatedly took top honors at the Florida Theatre Conference making us the state representative at the Southeastern Theatre Conference where we placed first in two different competition years with productions of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD and an original play INDEPENDENCE. My full length productions of JEKYLL AND HYDE, HAIR, THE CRUCIBLE, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and 42ND STREET were also featured on the Mainstage at the Florida State Thespian Festival and my one-act plays were featured at the Florida State Thespian Festival on 13 occasions. The Florida festival is the largest high school theatre festival in the world with almost 8,000 in attendance last year.