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Department of Drama Diploma Ceremony - May 23, 2010
CANDIDATES FOR THE
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
Alisa Beth Adkins
Daniel Puente Cackley
Audrey Grace Edwards
Allison Brooke Gardner
Charles Russell Hicks
Brooke Leigh Howard
Ana Carolina Losada
Christopher Michael Moneymaker
Laura Ellen Nessler
James Patrick Norton
Justin Dwayne Paxton
Angela Kay Pirko
Brittany Mecole Pryor
Samuel Jacob Rabinovitz
John William Rucker
Caroline Siobhan Ryon
Christal Danetta Sneed
Carol Ann Meade Van Deventer
DRAMA MINORS
Margaret Briscoe Stuart Coogan
Elina Sachi Edson
Brendt C Harris
Zoya Munif Khokar
Rebecca Mahon
Madison Minor
Andrew Espanto Quilpa
Mary Cary Ambler Ward
DANCE MINORS
Rose Eyram Amanin
Mary Camille Beckman
Frances R Bernard
Deidra Denea Childress
Rebecca Anne Conners
Gina Marie Consumano
Thushara Gunda
Erin Elizabeth Mayfield
Justin Dwayne Paxton
Rachel Anne Swartz
DRAMA FAMILY
Kendall Booher
DRAMA MAJORS
Ali Adkins
ACCIAC Fellows In Creativity and Innovation Honorable Mention Award. Actor: Another Day, Another Pound – A One-Woman Show, Day of Absence; Host: Another Day With Ali A (Podcast/Radio Show); Playwright: Another Day, Another Pound – A One-Woman Show; Creator/Writer: Another Day With Ali A (Podcast/Radio Show); Producer: Another Day, Another Pound – A One-Woman Show; Producer: Another Day With Ali A (Podcast/Radio Show); Publicity Assistant: The Imaginary Invalid; Sound Board Operator: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Sound Engineer: Another Day With Ali A (Podcast/Radio Show); Lighting Crew Member: Some Girls, Day of Absence, Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama).
Danny Cackley
Dean's List 4 semesters. College Arts Scholar in Drama (Summer 2009). Actor: Twelfth Night, The Homicide Report (Lab Series), Some Girl(s), Oklahoma!, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Foreigner, The Imaginary Invalid; Assistant Stage Manager: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Lighting Shop Staff (2007-2010) (U.Va.). Actor: Once Upon a Mattress, Cabaret; Assistant Director/Fight Choreographer: West Side Story (First Year Players). Actor: Voices of the Class 2007 (Spectrum Theatre). Member: First Year Players, Spectrum Theatre, Virginia Players (President 2008-2009).
Audrey Grace Edwards
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Dean's List. President's List. Actor: Lab Series (1 Year), Inside The Box (1 Year), The Seagull; Costume Designer: The Foreigner; Sound Designer: Another Day, Another Pound by Ali Adkins, Dead Man's Cell Phone; Sound Board Operator: Some Girl(s); Wardrobe Mistress: Day of Absence, Oklahoma!, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fuddy Meers, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Foreigner, Language of Angels, The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama). Actor: My Fair Lady, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus, Much Ado About Nothing, Godspell, Hello, Dolly!. Assistant Stage Manager: Sleuth, Guys And Dolls. Stage Manager/ Co-Director/ Artistic Collaborator: A Canticle for Humanity.
C. Russell Hicks
Area Program in Poetry Writing and Drama Double Major. Actor: Hair!, Till We Have Faces, Terminal Bar, Arms and the Man, The Imaginary Invalid, The Foreigner, Twelfth Night, A...My Name Will Always Be Alice, Pippin; Dancer: Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008), Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Dance Share with JMU (2009); Stage Manager: Shakespeare’s R&J (Male and Female Cast); Assistant Stage Manager: Songs for a New World (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Voices of the Class 2008, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (Spectrum). Actor: The Artist (Riverbend Films). Actor: Lemming Street Reading Players. Costume Shop: Stitcher (2008); Box Office Staff (2007-2010) (U.Va. Drama). Box Office Staff (2008, 2010); Company Manager (2009) (Heritage Theatre Festival). Michael Howard Studio Summer Conservatory Program 2007. Member: Virginia Players (Vice-President 2009, President 2010).
Brooke Leigh Howard
Dean’s List Fall 2009. Actor: Dead Man's Cell Phone, Day of Absence, Inside the Box, Little Matchstick Girl, June, Hot, and Muggy: a staged reading (Lab Series); The Dining Room, The Secret of Our Sex Life, Intimate Apparel (Directing I); Publicity Assistant: The Foreigner; Costume: Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Ceremonies of Dark Old Men (Paul Robeson Players). Actor: Vagina Monologues (Spectrum Theatre). Actor: Words as Weapons: A Symposium of Richard Wright (Carter G. Woodson). President, Member: Paul Robeson Players (2009-10, 2006-10).
Ana Carolina Losada
Assistant Stage Manager: Language of Angels; Fly Technician: The Seagull (U.Va. Drama). Tea Kwon Do Adult and Youth Instructor, Youth Sports Coordinator, Member of the Salsa Club, Usher in the Music Department, Member of Amigos for Colombia, Member of Students Helping Honduras, Member of the Tae Kwon Do Club, Actor in Peach Market Productions, and Madison House Volunteer for their Boosters program.
Christopher M. Moneymaker
President, Brown Residential College. Assistant Director: The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Assistant Stage Manger: The Imaginary Invalid, Pippin; Run-Crew/"Roustabout": Fuddy Meers (U.Va. Drama). Actor: King Lear (SotL). Actor: Cabaret, Once Upon a Mattress (First Year Players). Actor: Footloose (Live Arts).
Laura Nessler
Dean's List every semester. Phi Beta Kappa. 2009 Delauney Prize Winner. Playwright: Game Theory, Inside the Box Project (2008), Words as Weapons; Assistant Stage Manager: The Foreigner; Actor: Folks Like You (Lab Series) (U.Va. Drama). Producer/Director: CORD-fest (Fall 2009), One-Act Play Festival (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009), TheaterMania (Summer 2009) (Leonard D. Grissom Playwriting Society). Stage Manager: Mother Hicks, Visit to a Small Planet. Playwright: 24/7. Dramaturg: Eurydice (Live Arts). Actor: The Lion in Winter, Desdemona (A Play About a Handkerchief), The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear (SotL). President, Leonard D. Grissom Playwriting Society (2008-2010). Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra (2007-2009).
Jimmy Norton
Playwright: Ghost Machine, The Fall of the House of Ushers, Chair Future, A Canticle for Humanity. Sound Designer: So Careless, Day of Absence, The Foreigner; Sound Engineer: Dead Man's Cell Phone; Actor: Five Chairs, Zombie Interlude; Run Crew: Dead Man's Cell Phone; Assistant Stage Manager: The Imaginary Invalid; Carpenter in Scene Shop; Participant: Pig Iron Theatre Company Mask Workshop (U.Va. Drama). And those events which are lost to recollection.
Justin Paxton
Rainey Scholar. Production Stage Manager: Language of Angels, Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Spring Dance Concert (2010); Assistant Stage Manager: Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Dancer: Cross The Line...Spring Dance Concert (Spring 2008), Choreographer: Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Once Upon A Mattress, Cabaret; Hair & Make-Up Designer: Thoroughly Modern Millie (First Year Players).
Angela Kay Pirko
Phi Beta Kappa. Dean's List every semester. Actor: The Foreigner; Assistant Stage Manager: The Foreigner; Dancer: Dead Man's Cell Phone; Prop Shop Assistant (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Froegle Theorum, Lysistrata, The Conduct of Life; Stage Manager: Angels in America: Millenium Approaches, The House of Bernarda Alba; Stage Technician: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, An Experiment with an Air Pump (Macalester College). Director: Measure for Measure; Actor: Lear, All's Well That Ends Well; Stage Manager: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (SotL). Actor: The Vagina Monologues 2009 (Spectrum). Actor: Henry IV (Live Arts). Actor: A New Way to Pay Old Debts Staged Reading (American Shakespeare Center.) Props Master/Designer: Othello, Doctor Faustus, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two; Stage Manager: Othello; Young Company Actor (Richmond Shakespeare Festival). Intern at the Richmond Shakespeare Festival 2006-2008. Graduate of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Shakespeare Intensive 2009. Member: SotL, Spectrum Theatre, AMSA.
Brittany Pryor
Sound Designer: Imaginary Invalid; Assistant Stage Manager: The Seagull (U.Va. Drama). Member: Paul Robeson Players (Treasurer).
Sam Rabinovitz
Chairman: Big Bang 2010; Season Selections Representative: 2010-2011 (U.Va. Arts Board). Actor: Language of Angels, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oklahoma!, The Voysey Inheritance, Ubu Roi, The African Company Presents Richard III, Game Theory, When the Storm Comes, It's Magic, Three Balloons; Co Set Designer: Dead Man's Cell Phone; Assistant Set Designer: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Light Board Operator: Songs for a New World; Run Crew: Some Girl(s); Publicity Assistant: The Seagull (U.Va. Drama). Actor: The Morning After (Live Arts). Actor: Cabaret, Once Upon a Mattress (First Year Players).
Will Rucker
Dean's List every semester. Stage Manager: Another Day, Another Pound, The Seagull, The Little Matchstick Girl, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Twenty-Seven; Assistant Director: Language of Angels; Run Crew: The African Company Presents Richard III; Box Office Staff 2009 (U.Va. Drama). Actor: My Fair Bourbon, Stuffed (Barhoppers 2009).
Caroline Ryon
Echols Scholar. Wagenheim Memorial Scholar in English. Phi Beta Kappa. Dean's List every semester. Intermediate Honors. Harrison Grant Recipient 2009-2010 (studying the Federal Theatre Project and the evolution of an American "national" theatre). Actor: Pippin, The Seagull, Oklahoma!, So Careless, Hedda Gabler, Shakespeare's R&J (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Cabaret, Once Upon A Mattress; Director: Sweeney Todd (First Year Players). Intern: Mockingbird Pictures, Radar Pictures, ABC, Virginia Film Festival. Box Office Staff 2009 (U.Va. Drama). President: Kids Acting Out. Member: Arts Board Subcommittee 2009-2010; Arts Council; Jefferson Literary and Debate Society; Honor; Student Council: Student Arts Committee; Madison House: Cavs in the Classroom.
DRAMA MINORS
Margaret Briscoe Stuart Coogan
History Major. Drama Minor. Actor: The Little Matchstick Girl (Lab Series) (U.Va. Drama). Meg will be moving to Los Angeles after graduation to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, most likely working for a talent agency.
Elina Sachi Edson
Echols Scholar. Dean's List every semester. Costume Shop Assistant 2008-Present.
Rebecca Mahon
Lighting Board Operator: The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama). Assistant Technical Director: Cabaret (First Year Players).
Andrew Quilpa
Actor: Theatremania!, The Imaginary Invalid, Five Chairs, Game Theory (U.Va. Drama). Actor: Kafka's Dick (SotL). Actor: Mga Kapasiyahan, Mga Kaibigan, Pinagtagpo, Magtagumpay (Organization of Young Filipino Americans). Theater Management Intern: Live Arts (2009), Play On! (2009-2010).
Mary Cary Ambler Ward
Dean's List: Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009. Madison House Program Director for PLAY: After-school Activities. TOMS Shoes Campus Representatives. Alpha Phi Sorority.
DANCE MINORS
Rose Amanin
Anthropology/ African American Studies Major, Dance Minor. Choreographer: Te Papillion in Spring Dance Concert (2010); Dancer: Spring Dance Concert (2010), Structurally Sound: A Dance and Engineering Project (Fall 2009), Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008); Light Board Operator, Light Designer: Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008) (U.Va. Drama). Xtasee Hip Hop Dance Troupe: President, Live Arts Community Theater Intern.
Mary Camille Beckman
English Major, Area Program in Poetry Writing. Dance Minor. Dancer, Choreographer, Assistant Stage Manager: Spring Dance Concert (2010); Dancer, Choreographer: Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009); Dancer: Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008) (U.Va. Drama). Co-President: Dance Committee.
Frances Bernard
French Major, Dance Minor. Dancer: Compagnie E Qui Lyon, France (2009). Dancer: Dead Man's Cell Phone, AXIS Dance Residency, Spring Dance Concert (2010); Lighting and Costume Designer: Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama).
Deidra Denea Childress
Psychology Major. Dance Minor. Deans List for four semesters. Research Excellence Award. Dancer: Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama).
Gina Consumano
Economics Major, Dance Minor, Dean's List Spring 2009, Fall 2009. Choreographer: Spring Dance Concert (2010), Dancer: Spring Dance Concert (2010), Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Cross The Line...Spring Dance Concert (Spring 2008), Lighting Designer and Videographer: Fall 2007 (U.Va. Drama). Member: Virginia Dance Company and Virginia Dance Team all four years. Teacher: University PE Dance Class last four semesters.
Rebecca Anne Conners
Dean's List every semester. Aulebach Scholarship. Arts Scholar Award for Dance. Dancer: Spring Dance Concert (2007), Cross The Line...Spring Dance Concert (2008), Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Spring Dance Concert (2010); Choreographer: Spring Dance Concert (2007), Fall Dance Concert (2007), Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009) (U.Va. Drama). President, Dance Committee (2009-2010); Treasurer, Dance Committee (2008-2009).
Thushara Gunda
Echols Scholar. Dean's List every semester. Intermediate Honors. Choreographer, Lighting Board Operator: Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama). Member: Environmental Sciences Organization, Environmental Sustainability Committee.
Erin Elizabeth Mayfield
Psychology Major, Dance Minor. Dancer: Spring Dance Concert (2010), Structurally Sound: A Dance and Engineering Project (Fall 2009), Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009), Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008); Assistant Stage Manager, Lighting Designer, Costume Designer: Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2009); Videographer: Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Axis Dance Company Residency Performance (Spring 2010), Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama). Member: University Dance Club (2006-2010).
Rachel Anne Swartz
Art History major, Dance minor. Dancer: Strands in Motion: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2008), Bill T. Jones- 100 Migrations (Fall 2008), Seven: A Spring Dance Concert (2010); Choreographer: (sub)text in Explorations: Experimental Dance Concert (Fall 2009), Surface Tension in Spring Dance Concert (2010) (U.Va. Drama). Intern: Bill T. Jones 100 Migrations (Fall 2008), AXIS Dance Company Residency (Spring 2010). Dance Committee Publicity Chair.
DRAMA FAMILY
Kendall Booher
Art History and Spanish Major. Dean's List every semester. Production Stage Manager: Dead Man's Cell Phone; Production Assistant and Run Crew: Oklahoma! (U.Va.). Assistant Stage Manager: Oliver!, Little Shop of Horrors (Heritage Theatre Festival).
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