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Jack Carr, Communications and Media Studies Department, and Nancy Kane ’13, Kinesiology Department, received discretionary awards for their musical performances and ensemble work with the Auburn Players in “Antigone and Letters to Soldiers Lost,” directed by Robert Frame, at the Theatre Association of New York Festival 2021 held Nov. 20 in Rome, N.Y. The play is a combination of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and actual letters left at the Vietnam Wall, with original music performed by Carr, Kane and John Fracchia from Ithaca College. Also, the production won adjudicators’ discretionary awards for Music and Best Long Production, as well as a People’s Choice Award for Best Production, among other honors. Kane was nominated for Best Performer in a Play on the Broadway World website.