2008 Woodie Awards
Sarah Kamins '08
Charlotte Hammond
Issue date: 2/29/08 Section: TRUE DREW
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By age 4, she was a devoted dancer who delved into theater in elementary school and was dedicated to performing through high school.
Kamins looked at schools up north like Bard College, but Drew University was the first and only campus she fell in love with.
"The first thing I loved about Drew were the trees," Kamins says, her perpetually rosy cheeks aglow. "And the second thing I loved was the big beautiful new theater building!" she exclaims, referring to the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts that was freshly completed, save for the music wing circa Kamins' campus visit in 2003. She returned for Spring Saturday, where she met alumni Carla Emmanuele (CLA '07) and Lisa Agiewich (CLA '07),who insisted she try out for the first set of shows upon her fall arrival at Drew.
Cast as a circus-freak/ angel, Kamins performed in "The Elephant Man," and began to get a feel for the comprehensive theater experience at Drew.
"You learn how to do every aspect of theater here, and I love that," Kamins says. She entered with an aspiration to act and emerged with the knowledge of set designing, costume designing, directing and proposal writing-all of which she has pursued through Drew University Dramatic Society productions throughout her college career.
As a freshman, Kamins also auditioned, somewhat on a whim, for "The Vagina Monologues, " an ensemble show that was not put on through DUDS, but rather, as Kamins puts it, "gathered 24 women from all around campus. Any women who thought [the subject of the play] was an important topic!" she exclaims excitedly, clasping her hands together. By the end of the production, she declared a Women's Studies minor and developed a twin passion for women's issues and theater.
"It's amazing how many people, how many women, think 'feminism' is a dirty word," says Kamins, who was instilled at a young age with the liberal ideas of her mother, a social worker, and her father, a school counselor.
Her freshman year, by association with other Theater majors, she became a social fixture at Womyn's Concerns House. By her sophomore year, she decided she wanted to be a house member, and was accepted her junior year.
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