Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theatre and Arts Honors, recently announced the Miami-Dade County winner of the 2024 Jack Zink Memorial Student Scholarship. The selection of recipients is based on talent, experience and demonstrated commitment to the theater, with one winner from each of the three Southeast Florida counties.
The Miami-Dade winner is Alexandra Dreszer. A senior at the Miami Arts Charter High School, Dreszer has flourished as a young artist ever since she first participated in a theater summer camp at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center that concluded with a production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She has since performed in numerous shows, including Chicago, Into the Woods, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, and The Drowsy Chaperone.
“Theatre has allowed me to be a part of a community in which I feel seen, welcomed, and has given me immense joy and self-confidence,” Dreszer said. “It encourages me to move forward and become the best version of myself while doing what I love.”
So far, her enrollment application has been accepted by the University of Central Florida and Indiana University Bloomington.
“The Jack Zink Memorial Scholarships are awarded to graduating high school seniors who have achieved a minimum 2.5 GPA and are intending to enroll in college to pursue a degree in theater or journalism. Each of the three winners will receive $2,000 when they have enrolled in college,” said Javier Siut, a member of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, who co-chairs the Carbonell’s Scholarship Committee along with longtime Carbonell Judge Nancy Cohen.
The annual Carbonell scholarship is named for Jack Zink (1947-2008) who was a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades. During his long career, he was employed as entertainment editor, columnist, critic and reporter at each of South Florida’s major newspapers—The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post & Evening Times, and The Fort Lauderdale News.
Zink was the founder and a past president of the Carbonell Awards, a past president of The American Theatre Critics Association, and during his lifetime was a recipient of both the Sun-Sentinel newspaper’s highest honor, The Fred Pettijohn Award, given annually to the publication’s top reporters, and South Florida’s George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts.
The 47th annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony will be held on Monday, Nov. 11, at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, at which all three of this year’s Jack Zink Scholarship recipients will be celebrated.
The Carbonell Awards are named after Manuel Carbonell, an internationally renowned sculptor, who designed the original solid bronze and marble award in 1976, the signature trophy that is given annually to Carbonell Award winners. Duing the past 47 years, the Carbonell family has donated more than $250,000 in awards.
For more information, visit www.carbonellawards.org.
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