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Department of Drama Diploma Ceremony
May 17, 2009

CANDIDATES FOR THE
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
Leah Noelle Bernick
David Alexander Campbell
Suzanne Emory Casey
Danielle Laih-Ling Chen
Kathryn Mary Connors
Sharon Elizabeth Crews
Julia Mary Debo
Bjorn Ensberg Falk
Evva Louise Gandy
Harrison James Gibbons
Victoria Jane Hanabury
Emily Heiss Hobgood
Emily Yvonne Holter
Mary Elizabeth Johnson
Alexander Anderson Keevil
Lee Pallardy Kelly
Jason Anthony Kobielus
Mylrick Holy Lapointe
Elizabeth St. Clair Majette
Matthew Joseph Marcus
Corinne Marguerite Lockhart Mills
Laura Lin Muschelli
Jake Alex Pasko
Casey Christine Paul
Sandra Peso
Ashley Marie Romanias
Telma Renée Sheppard
Michael Adam Smith
Andre James Steele
Rebecca Katelyn Thompson
Folami Hilda Williams
Merve Su Yalcinkaya

DRAMA MINORS
Monet Dominique Bernard
Mary Elizabeth Butcher
Andrea Nicole Dane
Mauri Elyse Epstein
Jessica Rae Lawler
Jennifer Alexis Rosser
Robert Crews Vaughan, IV
Katherine Mary Willis

DANCE MINORS
Ashley Elizabeth Case
Suzanne Emory Casey
Kai Salmon Chang
Kathryn Mary Connors
Deanna Marie Fernandez
Jenna Stephanie Greenspan
Jake Alex Pasko
Monica Marie Talley
Lindsey Jane Turner
Emily Stuart Watkins

OTHER
Michael John Benonis
Dorothy Jane Shephard

DRAMA MAJORS

Leah Bernick
English and Drama Major. Dean's List every semester. Intermediate Honors. Phi Beta Kappa. Raven Society. Lawn Resident. Actor: Oklahoma!, HAIR; Directing Lab Actor: The Glass Menagerie, A View from the Bridge, Ferris Wheel; Director: Oh, Oh, It’s Magic…; Assistant Costume Designer/Mask Maker: Oedipus Tyrannus; Publicity Assistant: Twelfth Night; Light Board Operator: The Voysey Inheritance; Light Shop Staff 08' (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Light in the Piazza; Singer: Late-Night Cabaret (Heritage Theatre Festival). Actor: The Last Five Years, Voices of the Class 2008; Costume Designer: The Fantasticks (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Carmen, Die Fledermaus; Costume Designer: Carmen, Die Fledermaus; Director: Pirates of Penzance (Opera Viva). Director: Final Cut (Fourth Year Trustees). Choreographer: Pippin, Carousel, Broadway Rhythms, Child's Play, New York, New York!, Student Show Choirs (Kempsville Theatre). Writer/Director: Dave's Excellent Adventure (Transformed Student Ministries). Stitcher/ Children’s Costume Designer: Fiddler on the Roof (First Year Players). Stitcher: Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Member: Spectrum Theatre (Artistic Director), University Singers (Tour Manager/Concert Manager/General Manager), Chamber Singers, Arts Grounds Initiative and English Major Revision Focus Groups, Virginia Players, Monroe Society, DEAFS.

Alex Campbell
Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society. Actor: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Day of Absence, Hedda Gabler, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Fall of the House of Ushers, Chair Future, The Chairs, The Homicide Blog, Inside the Box, Lemming Street Players Reader; Participant: JTerm Commedia Dell'Arte Workshop in Italy; Sound Assistant: Oklahoma!; Painter: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fuddy Meers, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Publicity Assistant: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Richard Wright Symposium presents Native Son: Words as Weapons (Carter G. Woodson Institute). Actor: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Actor: ’06, ‘07 Adrenaline Film Projects (VA Film Festival). Actor and Director: Zombie Interlude and numerous U.VA. student film projects.

Suzanne Emory Casey
Dean’s List five semesters. Actor: HAIR, Oklahoma!; Dancer: Seven: An Experimental Dance Concert; Stage Manager: The Final Step: An Experimental Dance Concert, The Voysey Inheritance; Box Office Staff Fall ’07-Spring ’09 (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof; Assistant Director: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Fundraising Chair Spring ’07; Assistant Producer Spring ’08 (First Year Players). Choreographer: The Fantasticks (Spectrum Theatre). Dancer: University Dance Club Fall ’06.

Danielle L. Chen
Dean’s List '07-’08. Actor: Some Girl(s); Assistant Stage Manager: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Hair and Makeup/ Costume Assistant: The Voysey Inheritance; Scenery/Technical Staff: Hedda Gabler (U.Va. Drama) Filmmaker: What Remains (VCU SoA Cinema Gallery.) Photojournalist: The Boulevard; Model Sister; Sparrow, Lightly; Park (VCU SoA Young Photographers). Artist: The Falls (1 & 2); contender; Temptation, Or, The Egg; mandarin y canto; moon(sweet); The madness of kin (Oil on canvas series, VCU SoA Student Artist Showcases). Artist: Mulan and Her Father; The Reign; Greyscale; Drape (Collage series, VCU SoA Student Artist Showcases). Provost Scholar, Dean’s List every semester, High Honors (VCU, School of Art.). National Merit Scholar, American College of Musicians: National Guild of Piano (Advanced Intermediate and Collegiate member; National Audition Finalist).

Kathryn Connors
Dean’s List. Intermediate Honors. Golden Key International Honour Society. Phi Beta Kappa. Actor: Oklahoma!, Some Girl(s), The Voysey Inheritance, Oedipus Tyrannus, Scapin; Dancer: SEVEN: A Spring Dance Concert; Costume Shop Assistant; Season Selection Committee for ‘08-’09; Assistant Stage Manager: Call of the Wild; Lemming Street Players Reader: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Brighton Beach Memoirs. (U.Va. Drama). Member: Virginia Players (President ‘07-‘08). Actor: Swetnam, the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women (Bring ‘Em Back Alive, American Shakespeare Center). Actor: Fiddler on the Roof (First Year Players). Actor: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Assistant Director: Voices of the Class 2007 (Spectrum Theatre).

Sharon Crews
English and Drama major. Dean’s List. Actor: Twelfth Night; Publicity Assistant: So Careless; Assistant Designer: The Voysey Inheritance; Stitcher: So Careless, Twelfth Night, The Voysey Inheritance; Director: Inside the Box (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Whoopin’ Mama (Paul Robeson Players). Actor: Voices of the Class (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Grounds for Discussion (U.Va. Orientation and New Student Programs). Actor: Final Cut (Class of 2009). ’08-‘09 Designer: (Alpha Phi Alpha Productions). Member: Filmmaker’s Society, Paul Robeson Players, Cavalier Daily.

Julia Debo
Dean's List. Production Stage Manager: Ubu Roi, Oklahoma!, Good ‘N Bad Things; Director: Creatures Lurking in the Churchyard, The Homicide Blog; Assistant Director: Twelfth Night, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little; Actor: Arms and the Man, So Careless, Shakespeare’s R&J; Box Office Staff ’07-’08; Box Office Manager ’08-’09; Season Selection Committee for ’09-’10 Season (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Swetnam- the Woman Hater (American Shakespeare Center). Actor: W;t (Virginia Tech Theatre). Volunteer: LaLut Theatre Festival (Siena, Italy). Properties Designer: Waiting for Godot (Virginia Tech Theatre). Children’s Theatre Director: Kids Acting Out, Lunch Box Theatre. Marketing Intern: Arena Stage, Paul Wagner Films Board Member: Virginia Players, The Fanatic Magazine. Transfer Student Peer Advisor.

Bjorn Falk
Carpenter: Some Girl(s), Day of Absence, Oklahoma!, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fuddy Meers, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Assistant Stage Manager: Day of Absence; Fly Board Operator: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Run Crew: Fuddy Meers (U.Va. Drama). Carpenter: City of Angels, I Am My Own Wife, Master Class, Forever Plaid, Light in the Piazza; Run Crew City of Angels, Light in the Piazza (Heritage Theatre Festival). 2 time ACC team Champion, 1 Time ACC individual Champion, U.Va. Rookie of the Year (U.Va. Varsity Swimming '05-'08).

Evva Gandy
Dean’s List Fall ‘07. Assistant Stage Manager: The Voysey Inheritance; Prop Mistress: So Careless; Production Stage Manager: Day of Absence, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Scene Shop Assistant (U.Va. Drama). Production Stage Manager: City of Angels, The Light in the Piazza (Heritage Theatre Festival). Stage Management Apprentice: Albert Herring (Lorin Maazel’s Chateauville Foundation).

Harrison Gibbons
Phi Beta Kappa. Dean's List every semester. College of Arts and Sciences Arts Scholar. Intermediate Honors. National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Golden Key. Phi Eta Sigma. Actor: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Oklahoma!, The Voysey Inheritance, Twelfth Night, Between Here and the Yellow Sea, Twenty-Seven staged reading; Assistant Stage Manager: Ubu Roi; Sound Board Operator: Songs for a New World; Box Office Staff '07-’09; Participant: Comedia Dell' Arte Mask Workshop; Co-Reviver, Student Producer: Lemming Street Players (U.Va. Drama). Berkshire Theatre Festival Acting Apprentice ‘08. Actor: Voices of the Class '08 (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: God Is on the Radio (Spectrum Theatre/ Patterson Productions). Assistant Director: Cabaret; Actor: Fiddler on the Roof, Pippin (First Year Players). Actor: Urinetown: the Musical (Live Arts).

Victoria Hanabury
Dean's List seven semesters. Dancer: Dimensions: An Experimental Dance Concert, Crossing the Line; Stage Manager: Ten, Strands In Motion (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Pippen, Fiddler on the Roof; Assistant Director: Once Upon A Mattress (FYP). Actor: The Vagina Monologues ‘07, Voices of the Class ’07, Class of 2009 Trustees Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre (Spectrum Theatre). Rosebud Film Festival Nominee ’08. Michael Howard Studios Summer Conservatory ‘06. Virginia Film Festival Intern ‘07-‘08. Madison House Daycare. Kappa Delta Sorority.

Emily Hobgood
Dean’s List every semester. Phi Eta Sigma. Actor: Oklahoma!; Production Stage Manager: So Careless; Lighting Technology Assistant: Songs for a New World, So Careless, The Voyesy Inheritance; Wardrobe Crew: Fuddy Meers (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof; Assistant Vocal Director: Once Upon a Mattress (First Year Players). Co-Director/ Actor: I Love You Because (Spectrum Theatre). Kids Acting Out ’08-’09. Member: The Whethermen, Improv Comedy Troupe (’06-’09).

Emily Holter
Dean’s List every semester. Director/Actor: Inside the Box- Dr. Payaso’s Laboratory; Assistant Stage Manager: Oklahoma!; Director: A Streetcar Named Desire; Costume Shop Assistant and Stitcher ‘08-‘09 (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Richard Wright Symposium presents Native Son: Words as Weapons (Carter G. Woodson Institute). Actor: Father of the Bride, The Sisters Rosensweig, Love is Contagious, Spoon River Anthology (Windmore Theater). Actor: All’s Well That Ends Well (Four County Players).

Mary Beth Johnson
Assistant Stage Manager: Twelfth Night; Actor: Tickle (Senior Seminar Production); Wardrobe Run Crew: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Light Board Operator: Day of Absence; Shop Hand: Twelfth Night (U.Va. Drama). Assistant Director: Grease, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Orange County High School).

Alexander A. Keevil
Graduate Student in the Curry School of Education. Dean’s List: Spring ‘06, Fall ‘06, Spring ‘07, and Spring ‘08. Director: Inside the Box (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Receipt (Student Feature Film at U.Va.). Member: Alpha Phi Omega (Membership Vice President), St. Baldricks, Alternative Spring Break.



Lee Kelly
Dean's List every semester. Phi Beta Kappa. Actor: Oklahoma!, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Assistant Stage Manager: So Careless; Costume Shop Assistant, Stitcher (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Fantasticks (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Fiddler on the Roof, Pippin; Assistant Choreographer: Cabaret (First Year Players). Participant: IES Dublin Theatre Performance Program with the Gaiety School of Acting.

Jason Kobielus
Dean’s list six semesters. Actor: Twelfth Night, HAIR, Cloud Nine, Oklahoma!, The Voysey Inheritance, Ubu Roi, Twenty-Seven staged reading; Playwright: In The Valley, When The Storm Comes, Alec Eiffel and the Black Magic Woman; Director: Three Magical Purple Balloons; Publicity Assistant: Ubu Roi, Participant: Comedia Dell' Arte Mask Workshop, Pig Iron Theatre Company Mask Workshop (U.Va. Drama). Executive Producer, ‘08-‘09; Board Member, ‘07-’09; Assistant Stage Manager: The Fantasticks (Spectrum Theatre). Playwright: God Is On The Radio (Spectrum Theatre/ Patterson Productions). Actor: Unto These Hills…A Retelling, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead; Producer/Director/Playwright: Three 10-Minute Plays (Cherokee Historical Association). Intern ‘07; Actor: The Ballad of Robin Hood, Golliwhoppers, The Hobbit (Old Michie Theatre). Actor: Bras & Beaters (Charlottesville Women’s Theatre Project). Actor: Fiddler on the Roof (First Year Players). Actor: Xerxes the Great (Opera Viva). Actor: Actormachine, Oblivion, The Worth of a Carat (Independent Film). Actor: The Gift of the Game (Adrenaline Film Project, VA Film Festival). Production Designer: The Artist; Actor: The Receipt (RiverBend Films).

Libby Majette
Dean’s list. Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics honor society). Scenic Charge: Day of Absence, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fuddy Meers, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Scenic Designer: Day of Absence; Technical Director: A…My Name Will Always be Alice; Assistant Stage Manager: Hedda Gabler, Playwriting Showcase Spring ’09; Scene Shop Assistant (U.Va. Drama). Assistant Director: The Beard of Avon (Live Arts). Playwright: Stuffed (Offstage Theatre).

Mylrick Holy Lapointe
Access U.Va. Scholar. Run Crew: Songs for a New World; Sound Crew: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Actor: Day of Absence (U.Va. Drama).

Corinne Mills
Wardrobe Mistress: Truth & Beauty Luminosity, One Acts Festival, Dance Show; Dresser: Private Lives, The Cherry Orchard; Stage Manager: Bill T. Jones 100 Migrations; Stage Crew: Arms and the Man (U.Va. Drama). Production Assistant-Publicity: Vagina Monologues.

Matthew Marcus
Media Studies and Drama major. Dean's List every semester. Intermediate Honors. Actor: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oppenheimer, Oklahoma!, Twelfth Night, Ubu Roi, Oedipus, Scapin, Baggage (U.Va. Drama). Actor, Writer, Casting Director, Co-producer: The Artist (Riverbend Films). Actor: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Actor: God is on the Radio (Patterson Productions/ Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Voices of the Class, Director: Voices of the Class (Spectrum Theater). Actor: R&J (Earl Hamner Theatre). Actor: Pippin (First Year Players). Actor: Lysistrata (Live Arts). Writer: The Taste of Cotton (Barhoppers).

Laura Muschelli
Dean’s list every semester. Actor: Some Girl(s); Publicity Assistant: Seven: A Spring Dance Show; Director: Inside the Box-Programmed Obsolescence (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Grounds for Discussion (U.Va. Orientation and New Student Programs). Member: Chinese Student Association (Social Chair ’06-’07, Secretary ’07-’08, Advisor ’08-’09), Step It Up (Choreographer ’06-’07), Madison House Volunteer (’05-’07).

Jake Pasko
Dean’s List. Sigma Alpha Lambda. National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Dancer: Dimensions: An Experimental Dance Concert, The Final Step: An Experimental Dance Concert, The Spring Dance Concert: Cross the Line, Strands In Motion: An Experimental Dance Concert, Seven; Choreographer: Dimensions: An Experimental Dance Concert; The Final Step: An Experimental Dance Concert, Strands In Motion: An Experimental Dance Concert, Seven; Light Board Operator: So Careless; Assistant Stage Manager: Some Girl(s); Set Designer with Tom Bloom: Fuddy Meers (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof (First Year Players). Actor: God is on the Radio (Spectrum Theatre/ Patterson Productions). Dancer: Spring Dance Concert 2008; The Extravaganza (PVCC Dance). Dancer: Nightmare (This Little Bird Dance Theatre). Dancer: ETNIA (Zabor Dance). Dancer: Nutcracker (Rhapsody Dance Ensemble). Dancer: Bent (R-Squared Dance Company). Dancer: Winter Solstice of the Heart (Company member of the Charlottesville Ballet). Choreographer: Once Upon A Mattress (First Year Players). Board Member: Spectrum Theatre. Madison House Tutoring and Holiday Sharing. Member: Fashion Design Club. On-air personality at 92.7 Kiss FM.

Casey Paul
National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Actor: HAIR, Ubu Roi, Lemming Street Players Reader, Inside the Box; Publicity Assistant: Some Girl(s); Run Crew: Arms and the Man (U.Va. Drama). Actor: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Assistant Director: Artpark (Shakespeare of the Lawn). Actor: Grounds for Discussion (U.Va. Orientation and New Student Programs).

Ashley Romanias
Dean’s List Fall 2007. Actor: Fuddy Meers; Assistant Stage Manager: Fuddy Meers; Assistant Set Designer: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Spotlight Operator: Oklahoma!; Sound Board Operator: So Careless; Choreographer/Dancer: Strands In Motion, Dance Theatre Showcase, Student Composition Showcase; Dancer: The Final Step (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Voices of the Class, Class of 2009 Trustees Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre (Spectrum Theatre). Props Volunteer: City of Angels (Heritage Theatre Festival). Member: Spectrum Theatre, Athletes in Action Christian Fellowship. Volunteer: U.Va. Football Office. Intern: U.Va. Sports Promotions, U.Va. Baseball Promotions.

Telma Renée Sheppard
Actor: Day of Absence, Participant: Bill T. Jones Dance Residency, Gesel Mason Dance Residency (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Richard Wright Project (Carter G. Woodson Institute). Actor: The Hairpiece, Ceremonies in Old Dark Men (Paul Robeson Players). Dancer and Historian: X-tasee Dance Group. Model: F.A.M.E (Fashion Artistic and Musical Expression). Program Director of Cheer, Dance and Gymnastics (Madison House).

Adam Smith
Dean's List for five semesters. ‘09 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV Irene Ryan nominee for Fuddy Meers. Actor: Arms and the Man, Ubu Roi, Twelfth Night, The Voysey Inheritance, Oklahoma!, Fuddy Meers, Terminal Bar, Lemming Street Players Reader (Long Day's Journey Into Night); Lemming Street Players Director (In a Dark Dark House, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds); Assistant Director: The African Company Presents Richard III; Run Crew: Arms and the Man; Light Board Operator: Oedipus Tyrannus; Publicity Assistant: Oklahoma!; Scene Shop Assistant (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof; Run Crew Chief: Cabaret (First Year Players). Director: God Is On The Radio (Spectrum Theatre/Patterson Productions). Actor: Voices of the Class '08, Director: The Last Five Years; House Manager/Historian, ‘08-‘09 (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: The Beard of Avon, Tartuffe (Live Arts). Actor: Waiting for Philip Glass (Wendy Wasserstein Symposium). Actor: Romeo and Juliet: A Crime Scene Investigation (Theatre Works/Capital Fringe Festival). Dialect Coach: The Importance of Being Earnest (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Stage Manager: Romeo and Juliet: A Crime Scene Investigation (Theatre Works/Capital Fringe Festival). Upcoming- Actor: Oliver! (Heritage Theatre Festival).

Andre Steele
Sound Design: HAIR; Stage Manager: The Matchmaker (Live Arts); Director: Black Magic Woman.

Rebecca Thompson
Actor: Oklahoma!, A...My Name Will Always Be Alice; Assistant Stage Manager: Hedda Gabler; Box Office Staff '07-'08 (U.Va. Drama). Participant: Teatro Punto Comedia dell'Arte Mask Workshop (Accademia dell'Arte).

Folami Williams
Actor: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Day of Absence, HAIR, For Colored Girls...; Costume Dresser: Twelfth Night; Stage Manager: Inside the Box (U.Va). Actor: Ragtime, Singing in the Rain (Peach State Summer Theatre). Actor: Vagina Monologues (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Carmen (Opera Viva). Actor: Ain't Misbeahavin (Live Arts). Assistant Director: Whoppin Mamma; Director: Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (Paul Robeson Players). Member and President: Paul Robeson Players (‘07-‘09).



DRAMA MINORS

Mary Butcher
Assistant Set Designer: Oklahoma!; Assistant Costume Designer: Fuddy Meers (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Vagina Monologues (Spring '08). Assistant Set Designer: In the Blood; Head Set Designer: Matchmaker; Head Scenic: Flyin' West; Scenic Shop Intern '08-'09 (Live Arts).

Mauri Epstein
Dean's List six semesters. Actor: The Effect of Gamma Rays, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Inside the Box, Lemming Street Players Reader); Participant: Comedia Dell' Arte Mask Workshop, Big Apple Circus (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Scapin, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Bras & Beaters (Charlottesville Women's Theater Project). Actor: The Receipt (Student Feature Film at U.Va.). Adrenaline Film Project (VA Film Festival).

Robert Crews Vaughan, IV
Sound Board Operator: The Way of the World (U.Va. Drama). Technical Director: I Love You Because, The Vagina Monologues, Voices of the Class 2008, The Last Five Years (Spectrum Theatre). Master Electrician: Damn Yankees; Light Designer: Sugar!, Godspell (First Year Players).

Katie Willis
Urban and Environmental Planning Major, Drama and Architecture Minors. School of Architecture Dean’s List of Academic Excellence every semester. Actor: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oklahoma!, Ubu Roi, A…My Name Will Always Be Alice, Inside the Box, Lemming Street Players Reader; Participant: Comedia Dell' Arte Mask Workshop (U.Va. Drama). Actor: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Academia Dell’Arte, Arezzo Italy). Actor: The Good Times are Killing Me, Lysistrata (Live Arts). Actor: God is on the Radio (Spectrum Theatre/ Patterson Productions). Actor: The Shape of Things, Bad Seed (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Follies (Dogwood Dell). Actor: The Artist (RiverBend Films). Actor: Grounds for Discussion (U.Va. Orientation and New Student Programs). Graphic Designer: Lemming Street Players, A…My Name Will Always Be Alice, Dram Prom ‘08, Jingle Ball ’08. Assistant to the Scenic Designer: On Golden Pond (Heritage Theatre Festival). Member: Spectrum Theatre, Virginia Players, Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Student Planners Association.

DANCE MINORS

Kai Chang
Dancer: Crossing the Line, The Final Step, Seven; Choreographer, Dancer, Designer: Strands in Motion; Choreographer: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Fantasticks, Voices of the Class '06, Voices of the Class '07 (Spectrum Theatre). Improvisational Actor/ Director: Amuse-Bouche.

Emily Watkins
English Major, Dance Minor. Dean's List. Dancer: Dimensions: An Experimental Dance Concert; The Final Step, Crossing the Line, Seven: A Spring Dance Concert; Participant: Bill T. Jones Dance Residency; Lighting/Costume Designer: Strands In Motion: An Experimental Dance Concert, Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (U.Va. Drama). Member: Dance Committee.

OTHER

Mike Benonis
Electrical Engineering Major. Dean's List Spring ‘06, Spring ‘08 and Fall ‘08. Sound Designer: Oklahoma!, Luminosity; Assistant Sound Designer: Songs for a New World, HAIR; Sound Engineer: Oklahoma!, Songs for a New World, HAIR, For Colored Girls...; Department Sound Engineer from Fall ‘06 to May ‘09 (U.Va. Drama). Sound Engineer: The Light in the Piazza, City of Angles; Sound Engineer '08 (Heritage Theatre Festival). Sound Designer/ Sound Engineer: I Love You Because (Spectrum Theatre). Member: Virginia Players, Spectrum Theatre.

Dorothy Shepard
Dean’s List. Co-Set Designer/Set Designer: Ubu Roi, Some Girl(s); Scenic Artist: Waiting for the Parade, Scapin, The African Company Presents Richard III, Oedipus Tyrannus, HAIR, Ubu Roi, Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night, Some Girl(s), Oklahoma!, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (U.Va. Drama); Technical Director/ Set Designer: Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew; Director: All’s Well that Ends Well; Actor: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Desdemona a Play About a Handkerchief (Shakespeare on the Lawn). Member: Shakespeare on the Lawn

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