Senior Kara Treadwell started her theater career on stage, but has found her niche in directing. Currently, Treadwell is directing three productions in Searcy with a fourth starting in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, I think theater is a mission, and you should walk away viewing your own life,\u201d Treadwell said. \u201cThere should be layers. You should consider all the different storylines within the storyline and\u00a0 <\/span>think about how you treat people.\u201d<\/p>\n Treadwell said she can trace her love for acting and directing back to shows she put on at home with her siblings. The moment she knew this was her calling, however, was in her senior year of high school during a production of \u201cFreak,\u201d the first show she directed alone. The show provided a message of hope to people with suicidal thoughts and depression, and Treadwell said every English class in her school came to watch it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the moment when I realized this right here, this inspiration, this coming together as a group and putting together something that changes people\u2019s lives, is something I want to do,\u201d Treadwell said. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to have comedic timing and make an audience laugh. It\u2019s another to do a character so realistically that everyone can take something away from it. That\u2019s something that I love doing \u2014 making you see yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n As president of Campus Players, Treadwell is directing the play \u201cCagebirds,\u201d which will run Nov. 9 through Nov. 11 in the Reynolds Recital Hall. Tickets are $5, and attendees are encouraged to donate to Partners Against Trafficking Humans (PATH).<\/p>\n Treadwell also works with Kids\u2019 Stage at Center on the Square in Searcy. Treadwell said she has directed consistently for the program since her freshman year.<\/p>\n Gabe White, a seventh grader at Harding Academy, has been in multiple shows directed by Treadwell including her current show \u201cDear Chuck.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c(Treadwell)\u00a0 <\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>easy-going. She\u2019s not too\u00a0<\/span>strict, which is a good thing,\u201d White said. \u201cBut she can be if she needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n White said Treadwell has given him the freedom to take on the roles of characters completely unlike himself.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to do something more than recite the lines,\u201d White said. \u201cYou get to act different and I think memorizing lines helps my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n Wendy Neill, one of the new creative executive directors for Center on the Square, like Treadwell, said she believes in the mission of theater.<\/p>\n Having been an actress at Center on the Square since 2010, Neill said she decided to take on this position because she believes in what it does for the actors.<\/p>\n \u201cI love this theater, and I wanted to see it continue. I love what it does for the kids,\u201d Neill said. \u201cIt makes them comfortable in front of people, it helps them express themselves and it helps with self-confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senior Kara Treadwell started her theater career on stage, but has found her niche in directing. Currently, Treadwell is directing three productions in Searcy with a fourth starting in November.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15078,"featured_media":9645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}