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Department of Drama Diploma Ceremony
May 20, 2007

CANDIDATES FOR THE
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE

Lina Al Dajani
Devon Brinley Cabot
Elizabeth Scott Caldwell
Margaret Keenan Caldwell
Lauren Ashley Collins
Sarah McLain Creech
Rhavynn Ashley Drummer
William Brice Fiske
Matthew Iverson Fletcher
Kristin Lewis Freshwater
Alexandra Grace Gaver
Morgan Leigh Geisert
Brianna Rose Goode
Jonathan Leslie Green
Adam Wilgodt Johnson
Leticia Kuyumciyan
Emily Jane Lacy
Jonah Paul Lampkin
Hye Ri Lee
Alexander Philip Levin
Jennifer Elizabeth Lilley
Brinton Ring Lukens
Katherine Poynter McDaniel
Millicent Marcelene McKie
Melinda Casey Miller
Andrew Paul Page
Todd O’Neil Patterson
Rachael Elizabeth Pickering
Leigh-Taylor Savannah Smith

DRAMA MINORS

Mostafa Mohamed Abdelkarim
Carter Bailey Boggs
Melanie Faye Cunningham
Marley Delduchetto
Jessica Marie Dunnigan
Damon Anthony Hoyle
Queonna Zophia Edmonds
Jesimiel Ross Jenkins
Makeda Nancy Jones
Jessica Ashley Morgan
Katherine Ashley Morgans
Priya Jashubhai Patel
Sara Dabney Tisdale

DANCE MINOR

Laura Catherine Moore

DRAMA MAJORS

Lina Al Dajani
Dean's List every semester.  Stage Manager: Oedipus Tyrannus; Assistant Costume Designer: Baggage, Luminosity, Call of the Wild; Actor: Poultry in Motion. Editor-in-Chief: Aswatuna (Our Voices) Magazine.

Devon Cabot
Dean’s List. Stage Manager: Hair; Actor: Waiting for Phillip Glass, Women and Wallace; Costume Shop Assistant. Congressional Intern for Rep. Randy Kuhl (NY), Intern to Virginia Delegate Brian Moran, Intern at the Center for Politics. Waitress at Starr Hill for two years.

Scottie Caldwell
Echols Scholar.  Dean’s list, four years.  Intermediate Honors.  T. Braxton Woody Award.  Lettie Pate Whitehead grant recipient.  Distinguished Major, French.  Actor: Eulogy for the Sea, Lysistrata, The Cherry Orchard, The Ives Have It!; Assistant director: Call of the Wild; Publicity Assistant: Scapin; Dresser: The Way of the World;Costume Shop Assistant (UVa).  Costume Designer: The Importance of Being Earnest, Arcadia; Actor/Writer: 2005, 2006 - Voices of the Class (Spectrum Theatre). Box Office/Front of House Staff, Costume Shop Manager/Stitcher/Wardrobe; Actor: Lettice and Lovage (Heritage Repertory Theatre).Actor: Shakespeare’s R&J (URT). Pig Iron Theatre Company- mask workshop, wardrobe.  Member: Jubilate (2003-2004), Canterbury Episcopal Fellowship, Spectrum Theatre, Tau Iota Tau.  Young Priest Initiative Intern. 

Keenan Caldwell
Echols Scholar. Dean’s List every semester.  Intermediate Honors. Actor: Waiting for the Parade, Cloud 9, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nina in the Morning, Till We Have Faces, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Lysistrata, Waking Moment, Lemming Street Players Reader (Autobahn, Wonder of the World, Wenceslas Square); Assistant Stage Manager: Baggage; Hair, Makeup, or Wig Designer: Waiting for the Parade, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cloud 9, Call of the Wild, Luminosity, Defying Gravity, Scapin, Arms and the Man; Dancer: Dimensions, An Experimental Dance Concert; Costume Shop Assistant, Stitcher, Box Office Staff ’04; Participant, Pig Iron Theatre Company Mask Workshop (UVa).  Actor: Wit, The Importance of Being Earnest, Voices of the Class ’05 (Spectrum Theatre).  Actor: Sunday in the Park with George, South Pacific; Stitcher/Wardrobe: Ragtime, The Syringa Tree, 5 Guys Named Moe, Snoopy!!!, Driving Miss Daisy, True West (Heritage Repertory Theatre).  Actor: Outward Bound, The Secret Garden (Dogwood Dell).  Member: Spectrum Theatre, Jubilate (2003-2004), Tau Iota Tau

Rhavynn A. Drummer
2006-2007 Lawn Resident. Actor: The African Company Presents Richard III; Assistant Stage Manager: Hair (UVa). Actor: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (First Years Players).  Actor and Director for the Paul Robeson Players.  Member: Office of African-American Affair’s Peer Advisor Program, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., University Guide Service, Orientation Leader, Kiss FM Afternoon News.  Interning with Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, G.A.

Brice Fiske
Stage Manager: Waiting for the Parade (UVa). Member: Baptist Student Union, Wushu Club.

Matt Fletcher
Dean's List every semester.  Actor: As You Like It, Private Lives, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Engaged, Lemming Street Players, Truth & Beauty, Scapin, A Poster of the Cosmos; Assistant Stage Manager: Mud. (UVa). Actor: Enchanted April (Heritage Repertory Theatre). Actor: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (First Year Players). Actor: Wintertime, The Violet Hour (Live Arts). Actor: Family Voices (w/Richard Warner and Kate Burke), A Number (w/Richard Warner; Independent Student Arts Project), R&J (Live Arts, Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre), Third (staged reading at Hollins University w/Jane Alexander). Actor: The Lost Colony, Waiting for Lefty, Road, Savage/Love (Roanoke Island Historical Association). Member and Business Manager: Spectrum Theatre. Member: Arts Board, Drama Department Season Selection Committee. Social chair: First Year Players. Staff: Heritage Repertory Theatre box office.

Kristin Lewis Freshwater
Dean's List. Actor: Lysistrata, Women and Wallace, The Ives Have It; Dresser: Cloud 9; Assistant Stage Manager: Scapin; Set Designer: Waiting for the Parade, Till We Have Faces; Assistant Director: Oedipus Tyrannus; Director: Till We Have Faces; Playwright: Till We Have Faces (UVa). Member: Virginia Players, Anglican College Ministry, Reformed University Fellowship. "Un-official" advocate of Walden Mediaand The Chronicles of Narnia!

Alexandra Gaver
Dean's List Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2006. Production Stage Manager: Cloud 9; Scenic Artist: Hair, Oedipus Tyrannus, The African Company Presents Richard III, Arms and the Man, Scapin, Waiting for the Parade; Light Board Operator: The African Company Presents Richard III (UVa). Actor: Henry IV, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III (Shakespeare on the Lawn). That Particular Time (Graduate Student Film). Production Stage Manager: Topdog/Underdog (Spectrum Theatre). Director: Sara (Inside the Box). Mask Workshop with Pig Iron Theater Company. Member: Shakespeare on the Lawn (Vice President), Canterbury Episcopal Fellowship, Virginia Women’s Chorus. 

Morgan L. Geisert
Dean's List every semester but one.  Actor: The Cherry Orchard, Engaged, Baggage, Lysistrata, Arms and the Man, Lemming Street Players Reader(Autobahn, Nocturne, Arms and the Man, Wenceslas Square, Stop Kiss), Iphigenia and Other Daughters, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Seal Skin, Saga; Assistant Director: Waiting for the Parade; Assistant Publicity Manager: Hair (UVa). Actor: The Vagina Monologues '05, Arcadia (Spectrum Theatre). Member: Virginia Players. Volunteered with Madison House Day Care for three years. Participated in the Balinese Mask workshop with Pig Iron and Viewpoints workshop with Doreen Bechtol.  Drama Department light shop employee since spring of 2006.

Bri Goode
Dean’s List Fall 2003- Spring 2007. Assistant Stage Manager: Defying Gravity (UVa). Actor: Henry IV, Chorus: Artpark, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Nights Dream (SOTL). Actor: Bad Seed (Spectrum). Actor: The Hairy Ape, Diana of Dobsons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, All Together Now (Gettysburg College).  Member: CHooSE, Shakespeare on the Lawn, University Singers, PK German, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society, Madison House.

Jonathan Green
Echols Scholar.  Dean’s List every semester.  Director: Waiting for the Parade, Mud, Betrayal, Nina in the Morning; Associate Director: Truth & Beauty; Assistant Director: Private Lives; Actor: Cloud 9; Assistant Stage Manager: Arms and the Man; Make-up Designer: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Call of the Wild, Cloud 9; Assistant Costume Designer: Hair; Co-Producer: Fall 2006 Lab Series (UVa).  Artistic Director/Director: Shakespeare’s R&J, A Number, Family Voices, Three by Samuel Beckett (URT).  Director: Shakespeare’s R&J (Hamner Theatre).  Assistant Director: Noises Off; Actor: Urinetown: The Musical (Live Arts). Producer; Artistic Director; Production Manager; Actor: Voices of the Class; Publicity Director: The Compleat Works of Willm Shkspr (abridged) (Spectrum Theatre).  Stage Manager: The Merchant of Venice (Richmond Shakespeare Festival).  Stage Manager: The Tempest National Tour, The Merchant of Venice National Tour; Mask/Puppet Designer: The Tempest Nat’l Tour (Encore! Theatre Company).  Stage Manager: Harvey (Four County Players).  Props Master: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Victor/Victoria (First Year Players).  Chair of 2006-2007 Arts Board: Pig Iron Theatre Company.  UVa Drama Box Office Manager.  Heritage Repertory Theatre Box Office Manager.  Member: First Year Players, Spectrum Theatre, Virginia Players, Lemming Street Players.

Adam (AJ) Johnson
Echols Scholar. Dean's List Fall 2005. Sound Designer: Hair, Scapin; Sound Board Operator: Call of the Wild, Nina in the Morning; Assistant Stage Manager: Waiting for the Parade (UVa). Assistant Director: The Fantasticks (Spectrum), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (The Lost Colony PTW). Sound Designer: Fiddler on the Roof; Actor: Guys and Dolls (First Year Players). Sound Designer: Metamorphoses (Live Arts).  Sound Designer: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Sound Engineer: The Lost Colony (RIHA). Member: First Year Players (Sound Designer, Fundraising Chair), Brown College (Academic and Cultural Events Co-Chair), Spectrum Theatre, Virginia Glee Club, The Declaration.

Leticia Kuyumciyan
Dean's List Fall 2004, Spring 2005, & Fall 2006. Sound Board Operator: Truth & Beauty; Stage Manager: The Chairs;Assistant Stage Manager: Arms and the Man, R&J (UVa). 

Emily Lacy
Dean’s List Spring 2006.  Actor: Luminosity, Woyzeck, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little;Assistant Stage Manager: The African Company Presents Richard III;Sound Board Operator: Waiting for the Parade (UVa). A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting, Backing Up (LiveArts).

Jonah P. Lampkin
Assistant Stage Manager: Oedipus Tyrannus; Lab Series Director: A Game;Props Artisan: Call of the Wild, For Colored Girls…, Cloud 9; Sound Consultant: African Company Presents Richard III; Sound Designer: For Colored Girls… (UVa). Artistic Director: Die Fledermaus; Technical Director: Carmen; Co-Founder (Opera Viva). Actor: Dido and Aeneas, Love’s Queer Labours; Lighting Designer: Dido and Aeneas (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: HMS Pinafore, Apollo and Hyacinth, Porgy and Bess; Lighting Designer: Soir Angelica (UVa Opera Workshop). Board Member at Large; Vice President; Touring & Concert Manager; Librarian (The Virginia Glee Club).  Events Manager (UVa Music). Program and Curriculum Development (UVa Arts Administration)

Alex Levin
Dean’s List.  Actor: Oedipus Tyrannus, Inside the Box; Assistant Director: Scapin (UVa). Actor: King Lear, Intern Showcase (Marin Shakespeare Festival). Actor: Arcadia, Wit, Bad Seed (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Actor: Iolanthe (New Lyric Theatre). Actor: Victor/Victoria (First Year Players).  Member: Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, First Year Players, Spectrum Theatre.

Brinton Lukens
Director: Baggage;Assistant Director: Arms and the Man, Luminosity, Cloud 9;Associate Production Stage Manager: The Mystery of Edwin Drood;Assistant Stage Manager: Private Lives; Actor: Engineering Projects (UVa).  Director: Shakespeare’s R&J, Bodies in Water: An Experimental Theatre Piece; Stage Manager: Three by Samuel Beckett (URT).  Stage Manager: Victor/Victoria, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (First Year Players).  Assistant Stage Manager: Damn Yankees (Heritage Repertory Theatre). Production intern: Will and Grace (NBC).  Production Assistant: Cold Reader (Los Angeles). Wrote screenplay coverage for Gold Circle Films and Mockingbird Pictures in Los Angeles.  Member: Virginia Players, Spectrum Theater, First Year Players. 

Katie McDaniel
Dean's List.  Golden Key.  Order of Omega.  Actor: Eulogy for the Sea, Cloud 9, Waiting for the Parade, Waiting for Phillip Glass, Till We Have Faces, Iphigenia and Other Daughters; Assistant Stage Manager: Baggage (UVa). Actor:  various shows with HATTheatre, Theatre IV, and Berkshire Theatre Festival.  Member: Chi Omega fraternity, Arts Board, VA Players. 

Millicent-Grace Marcelene Mckie
Golden Key International Honour Society.  "Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges."  Associate in Arts Degree with a major in Liberal Arts Cum Laude.  Mars Dramatic and Literary Scholarship. Costume Construction and Scenic Painting: Scapin, Cloud 9; Publicity: Arms and the Man (UVa).  Rising Star competition, first place, vocal. Focused on the harp, dance and costume technology at UVa.

Melinda Casey Miller
Mindy was first seen as an angel in the Glade Spring United Methodist Church Christmas pageant.  Since then, she has been sucked in, thrilled, angered, charmed, and motivated by her theatrical endeavors and education.  At UVa, she has played soldiers, mothers, servants, a nun, a rabbi, a priest, a hooker, an old woman in high heels, and a Shakespearean jokester.  Her favorite roles have been a daughter to her parents, a sister to her sister, an aunt to her godchildren, a student to her teachers, and a friend to her friends.  She thanks UVa Drama for reminding her that creativity is as natural as breathing.  She also thanks The Biltmore Bar and Grill for having $2 pitchers on Tuesday nights and Buddhist Biker Bar for having $2 pitchers on Wednesday nights.  Special thanks to Garden X, Shady Grady, and the beautiful Virginia weather.  Peace and love to EJL and Nasty Nate.

Andrew Page
Inside the Box (UVa). Member: First Year Players, Spectrum Theatre, Monroe Society. Work for Wookies, Filmmakers Society, Big Big Babies, Habitat for Humanity, MII, and Spectacular Spelling.  Dance Marathon.

Todd O'Neil Patterson
Actor: Lysistrata, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Call of the Wild, Luminosity, The African Company Presents Richard III; Lemming Street Players Reader (Wonder of the World, Stop Kiss, Arms and the Man, Autobahn); Assistant Stage Manager: Hair (UVa). Actor: Voices of the Class, The Fantasticks (Spectrum Theater).  Actor: Sylvia, Urinetown, Ain't Misbehavin' (LiveArts).  Staged Reader: Am I Black Enough Yet? (Hamner Theater, Mill Mountain Theater).  Actor: The Blue Orb (Virginia Film Festival –Adrenaline Project). Viewpoints Master Class.

Rachael Pickering
Dean's List most semesters.  Actor: Scapin, Private Lives, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little; Assistant Costume Designer: Oedipus Tyrannus; Stage Manager: Luminosity (UVa). Actor: Arcadia (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Much Ado About Nothing (Four County Players). Actor: Be Aggressive (Live Arts). Member: Spectrum Theatre.  2 ½ months of classes with Fashion Institute of Technology.  Continuing studies of costume design and technology in a continuing studies year here at UVa (2007-2008).

Leigh-Taylor Savannah Smith
Production Stage Manger: Arms and the Man (UVa).  President: Virginia Belles.  

Drama Minors

Mostafa Mohamed Abdelkarim
Dean's List.  Creator: The Hoos News Show (UVa's first online college news show). Project Creator and Director: The 2007 Class Film Project (to create the first ever class film at UVa and continue an annual tradition). Independent Film Director: Minimum Wage.  Actor: Recognized as an All-American Witness in the Collegiate Mock Trial Program

Jesimiel R. Jenkins
2007 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Recipient, Paul D. Vann, Jr. Memorial Distinguished Student Award, Harry Bramhall Gilbert Scholar, National Scholars Honor Society.  Actor:  The Mystery of Edwin Drood, For Now: A Musical Revue, A Game, The African Company Presents Richard III, Hair (UVa). Actor: South Pacific (Heritage Repertory Theatre).  Actor: Topdog/Underdog (Spectrum).  Actor: Carmen (Opera Viva). Actor: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Live Arts Theatre). Workshop with Andrew Wade. Member: Paul Robeson Players (Vice-President), a theatre troupe celebrating black student actors and playwrights; University Singers. Co-Chair of the nationally-acclaimed Peer Advisor Program in the Office of African-American Affairs, Class of 2007 Trustee, University Guide, 2006 Orientation Leader, First-Year Dorm Resident Advisor, IMPACT: South Africa Summer Project (volunteered in hospices and Christian ministries in South Africa housing children suffering from AIDS, summer 2006).

Katie Morgans
Dean’s List Spring 2005, Spring 2006.  Actor: Woyzeck; Technical crew: Nina in the Morning, Betrayal, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; House manager: Biro, Call of the Wild, For Colored Girls…, Waiting for the Parade, Scapin, Arms and the Man, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, The African Company Presents Richard III, Oedipus Tyrannus, Hair (UVa.) Actor: Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Random Acts of Shakespeare, Love’s Queer Labors; Stage Manager: Hamlet, Titus Andronicus; Costume Designer: Artpark; Makeup Designer: Henry IV (Shakespeare on the Lawn).  Technical crew: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Victor/Victoria (First Year Players.) House manager and box office staff: Heritage Repertory Theatre, summer 2006.

Sara Tisdale
Echols Scholar. Member of several collegiate honor societies at the University.  Actor: Lysistrata (UVa). Actor: Suburbia, Drunk Like Water (Live Arts). Actor: Bring 'Em Back Alive Series  (The American Shakespeare Center, Staunton). Actor: The Vagina
Monologues (Spectrum). Actor: Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Member: Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (Literary Chair), Jefferson Journal Editor, and Parliamentarian.  Founded the Jefferson Society Reading Series to bring students in closer contact with University professors and their published works.  Jefferson Society's 2007 Moomaw Oratorical Contest Winner for her speech "Ballet and the Body: Reconciling an Ideal."

Dance Minor

Laura Moore
Dean’s List. Producer and Assistant Stage Manager: Dimensions: An Experimental Dance Concert; Choreographer: “Bound by Convention”, “Bittersweet” from Dimensions (UVa); Member: Dance Committee, Etcetera Winter Guard. First undergraduate Statistics major and first undergraduate to be awarded the minor in Dance.  Madison House Athletics - program director: cheer dance & gymnastics.

DRAMA DEPARTMENT ALUMNI AWARDS

THE WILLIAM DEMOVILLE PETTWAY PRIZE
Awarded annually to students who have made a distinctive contribution
to the Department and its production activities.
Keenan Caldwell
Scottie Caldwell
Kristin Freshwater
Jonathan Green
Matt Fletcher
Brin Lukens

THE CLAY E. DELAUNEY, JR. AWARD
Awarded annually for an original play written during the current academic year.
Megan Smith

DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA
FACULTY AND STAFF
2006 – 2007

ROSE PASQUARELLO BEAUCHAMP, Lecturer, Dance
MARTIN A. BEEKMAN, Lecturer, Business Manager
PAM BLACK, Lecturer, Figure Drawing
TOM BLOOM, Chair, Associate Professor, Scenic Design
JOSHUA BOND, Costume Shop Manager
KATE BURKE, Associate Professor, Voice and Speech
ROBERT CHAPEL, Professor, Producing Artistic Director/ Heritage Repertory Theatre
THERESA M. DAVIS, Associate Professor, Cross Cultural Performance
SHAWN PAUL EVANS, Lecturer, Production Coordinator
JOHN FRICK, Professor, Theatre History
L. DOUGLAS GRISSOM, Associate Professor, Playwriting
DAVID HALE, Scene Shop Manager
LAVAHN HOH, Professor, Associate Chair
R. LEE KENNEDY, Associate Professor, Lighting Design
BARBARA KOONIN, Administrative Specialist
WALTER KORTE, Associate Professor, Film Studies
MARIANNE KUBIK, Assistant Professor, Movement
THERESA LAMB, Administrative Assistant to the Chair
MARCY LINTON, Assistant Professor, Costume Technology
JENNY MAYS, Administrative Specialist
JUDITH REAGAN, Assistant Professor
JAMES SCALES, Assistant Business Manager
BETSY RUDELICH TUCKER, Assistant Professor, Acting and Directing
MICHAEL RASBURY, Assistant Professor, Sound Design
RICHARD WARNER, Professor, Acting
STEVEN L. WARNER, Lecturer, Technical Director
GWENETH WEST, Professor, Costume Design

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