Wyandotte Roosevelt Students Become Play Directors

You’ll get three shows for the price of one this weekend at the .

The AKT Student Productions: An Evening of One Acts is being presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door.

Last fall, put out a call for high school and college students wanting a chance to direct their very own show. Three directors were chosen, along with a student technical team, to work alongside professionals in the theater industry.

The students have spent the last few months learning how to put up an entire production from beginning to end in a completely hands-on process, including play selection, casting, design and acting.

All three shows are being presented in one evening, offering an array of talent and storytelling.

The three productions are Frostbite, directed by Jon Pigott, And, directed by Sarah Mikota and ‘Dentity Crisis, directed by Aaron Glenn.

All three directors are students at .

Angie Kane Ferrante, AKT’s artistic director, said the student production provides people with an “amazing opportunity to see the diverse shows they’ve chosen and the talent of our community’s young people.”

AKT began as an education summer workshop at Roosevelt in 2008. It now stages two professional productions a year, an educational summer musical, annual fund-raisers and concerts, student productions and educational summer workshops.

“The AKT Theatre Project strives to create an artistic home, spark new ideas and bring affordable professional-quality theater to the Downriver area,” Ferrante said.

For more information, call 734-258-8370 or visit the company’s website.