ENMU Student Accepted into the American Musical Dramatic Academy

Date: 2/9/2004
Contact: Wendel Sloan at 505.562.2253
Reporter: Scarlet Smith

PORTALES—Eastern New Mexico University student Jennifer Livingston has received an acceptance letter for the prestigious American Musical Dramatic Academy in New York. (AMDA).Jennifer will graduate from ENMU May 2004. She has studied four years on a theater scholarship from the theatre department at ENMU. Jennifer
recently went to New York to audition for the AMDA. She was required to write three essays along with performing a solo audition, singing "This Place Is Mine" from Maury Yeston's Phantom, and a two-minute monologue from John Patrick Shanley's "Women of Manhattan.

"It was the most exciting thing I ever did. New York is fabulous," said Jennifer. This Oct. she will attend the AMDA to study acting, singing and dance. Each day she will attend 10 classes in these areas of study. "This has been a life long dream. I cannot wait to be immersed in the arts!"

The ADMA has two campuses: one in Manhattan and one in Hollywood, with a total of 800 students. This year the ADMA accepted 300 students out of the 2,000 that applied. The program is a two-year course load and can cost upward to $80,000. After the two years, Jennifer would like to stay in New York and work on Broadway
and possibly in 10–15 years move to London with her soon-to-be-husband, Rob Eden, an engineering student at