(Posted 11-23-99)
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TOM BEHM RECEIVES THEATRE AWARD
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GREENSBORO--Tom Behm, professor of theatre at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received the Herman Middleton Service Award from the N.C. Theatre Conference.
Behm was cited for extensive service to the organization and to theatre in North Carolina. The Middleton Award was presented at the NCTC annual conference in Burlington. It is named for Dr. Herman Middleton, a UNCG Excellence Professor emeritus who was head of the UNCG Department of Drama and Speech from 1956-74.
A UNCG faculty member since 1968, Behm is a past president of both NCTC and the Children's Theatre Association of America. He is also a past chairman of the N.C. Alliance for Arts Education. He was director of the theatre division for several years in the UNCG Department of Communication and Theatre.
He has been artistic director of the N.C. Theatre for Young People for over 30 years and has directed over 50 plays for NCTYP and UNCG theatre. He is author of two plays, "Tarheel Tales" and "How Things Happen in Three." He is a past editor of the journal, Children's Theatre Review. A graduate of Northwestern University, Behm holds the master's degree from the University Kansas. Among his honors, he received the 1991 Sarah Spencer Child Drama Award from the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the 1993 Robroy Farquhar Award from the N.C. Thespian Society.
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