TDPS Faculty and Alumni Win 2025 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards
January 15, 2026
TDPS professor and students recognized for their achievements in DMV theater.
A School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) faculty member, an alum and a student are among the winners of the 2025 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards for their work on TDPS and DMV-area productions. These awards honor regional and touring productions that had their first performance between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 and are determined by audience voting.
KenYatta Rogers, assistant professor of theatre and the director of undergraduate studies, won Best Direction Of A Play (Non-Professional) for “Metamorphoses”, a Fall 2024 TDPS production featuring a wading pool in the Kogod Theatre.
Alaina “AJ” Jenkins, a Spring 2025 graduate with a BA in Theatre, won Best Supporting Performer In A Play (Non-Professional) for her performance as Lady in Brown in the TDPS production of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.”
Hailey LaRoe, a first-year MFA student studying Lighting and Projections design for live theatre and performance, won Best Lighting Design Of A Play Or Musical (Professional) for her work on “Choke” at GALA Hispanic Theatre in D.C.
TDPS received 16 total nominations for these prestigious awards.
View the full list of award winners and the complete list of TDPS nominees here.
Top photo: Alaina “AJ” Jenkins ’25 as Lady in Brown in “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Photo by Taneen Momeni.