Weston Actress Wins BroadwayWorld 'Best Performer' Accolades

WESTON, CT — A local actress came home with the gold from the recent BroadwayWorld 2021 Connecticut Awards.

Chrystal Campbell, of Weston, won the award for Best Performer in a Streaming Play (Non-Professional) for her performance in "Dognap on Dekalb," presented by Western Connecticut State University.

Campbell graduated WCSU in spring 2021 and has since signed with the talent agency of CLA Partners in New York and California.

Sal Trapani, professor of Theatre Arts at WCSU and director of one of the first full productions of "Dognap on Dekalb," noted that the awards bestowed by BroadwayWorld “once again demonstrated the talents within WCSU’s performance program."

Trapani defines the play as a "beautiful meditation on dealing with and healing from the sorrow and pain of loss," and praised Chrystal Campbell. "Her performance was brilliant; Chrystal shows us the pain and suffering a mother suffers at the loss of a child. She goes through all the stages of grief with dignity and grace. Her performance takes your breath away," he said.

The BroadwayWorld Regional Awards are the largest theater audience-voted awards, with over 100 cities worldwide participating.