{"id":2773,"date":"2010-05-26T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:23:44","slug":"student-thespians-get-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Student thespians get WIRED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2837 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2661.png\" alt=\"act_from_maddie\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Maddie Patrick &#39;10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No college show blends a greater number of eccentric characters, ridiculous plot pieces, punchy one-liners, and pop-culture references than campus theater\u2019s insomniac mash-up, WIRED! This year\u2019s edition of the 24-hour one-act play competition\u2014organized by All College Theater (ACT) and TCNJ Musical Theater (TMT)\u2014pitted four teams of student playwrights, directors, actors, and crew against each other with some hilarious results. (Take for example <em>Invasion of Chaos with Buckaroo Bonzai &amp; the Teleportation Device<\/em>, written by <strong>Brad Heisler \u201913 <\/strong>and <strong>Matt Daley \u201911<\/strong>, which envisioned a future where Oprah Winfrey is president and Al Gore lives with the Coca-Cola polar bears). At day\u2019s end, <em>Granny Mae\u2019s Samurai Smackdown<\/em> took home the prize for Best Show, and its creators, <strong>Marla Pachter \u201910 <\/strong>and <strong>Julian Starr \u201912<\/strong>, won the Best Writing award. <strong>Jeff Mondoro \u201911<\/strong> and <strong>Maddie Patrick \u201910 <\/strong>won the Best Actor and Actress awards.<\/p>\n<p>But the students who took part in WIRED! weren\u2019t in it for the trophies. \u201cAt the end of the day, WIRED! is about innovation,\u201d ACT vice president <strong>Melissa Standish \u201912<\/strong> said. \u201cEveryone involved\u2014 the writers, the directors, the stage managers, the actors and the arbiters\u2014has to take what they have been given, put their creativity to work, and come together to create a great show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjsignal.net\/2010\/03\/23\/warrior-teenagers-take-top-prize-at-wired-2010\/\"><em>Click here to read an extended version of this article on <\/em>The Signal<em>&#8216;s Web site.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No college show blends a greater number of eccentric characters, ridiculous plot pieces, punchy one-liners, and pop-culture references than campus theater\u2019s insomniac mash-up, WIRED! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2010","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}