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Dr. Chloë’s student mentees win big at the 2025 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region IV)!!!
Finalist in Scenic Design – Matthew Conte – Rhinoceros
Finalist in Lighting Design – Alex Russell – Rhinoceros
Emerging Designer Award – Michael O’Brien – Programmer for Rhinoceros
Recognition of Achievement in Stage Management – Annalee Weydert – Rhinoceros
Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC) Fellowship Honorable Mentions - Maddy Poston and Ty Simons
National ITJA Finalists - Maddy Poston and Arsheeya Garg
Best of Orlando Theater 2024
Dr. Chloë nominated in the category of Best Director of a Comedy for her work on Rhinoceros at Theatre UCF
“Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros provokes both laughs and horror in a stylish production from Theatre UCF”
Matt Palm, ORLANDO SENTINEL (November 15, 2024)
“I felt a sick little knot in the pit of my stomach at the end of Theatre UCF‘s production of “Rhinoceros,” and that’s a compliment for director Chloë Rae Edmonson and her team.”
“Adding to the unease is Edmonson’s clever and oh-so-effective use of motion. A strange series of dance-like twitches at the play’s start binds the characters together, some sleight of hand in the opening scene augments the absurdist humor and the relentless marching of the rhinos — well, we all know what mindless marching means in entertainment. They are not the good guys.”
Dr. Chloë featured on NPR
Chloe Edmonson … has studied burlesque’s evolution and said there’s nothing more organic than Les Vixens running the queer burlesque scene.
“Burlesque is not only a sexy striptease, but it's also about this woman's command of her own body, or it's about capitalism, or it's about climate,” Edmonson said. “There's just so many different ways to embed whatever personal message the performer has into the art form.”