Readers Theatre performances directed by CAS students promote good written literature both on campus and off. Students in Advanced Oral Interpretation (CAS 485) or Independent Study develop production concepts and employ lighting and sound to present group readings of several types of literature. Students from CAS 380W (Oral Interpretation) are often the performers. Each semester students present stories to children in Schlow Memorial Library in State College. Students also direct and perform in stories by professional authors such as Woody Allen, Stephen Vincent Benet, or Ben Bova. But the most satisfying performances are those of award-winning stories by Penn State students. Each year the Department of English gives awards to the best stories from their fiction-writing classes (the Edward Nichols Award) and to the best stories from an open Penn State competition (the Katey Lehman Award). In the Fall Semester, selected stories from the winners of the Lehman Award are performed in Kern Building Auditorium. Similar performances in the Spring Semester orally "publish" the winners of the Edward Nichols Award.