Awards & Honors Honors Actress Shaunette Renée Wilson ’16 received a 2015 Princess Grace Award Theatre Scholarship. Miriam Hyman ’12 was named an Annenberg Fellow by the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. Jake Jeppson ’12 was nominated for The Relentless Award, which honors Philip Seymour Hoffman and is given to a playwright in recognition of a new play. Jake was nominated for his play, #Bros.
Kate Newman ’15 was the winner of the KM Fabrics, Inc. Technical Production Award at the USITT Young Designers & Technicians Awards 2016. Genne Murphy ’18 won the 2016 Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers for her play Giantess, which had a workshop directed by Jessi Hill ’07 at New York Stage & Film in July and a reading at Primary Stages this fall. Dipika Guha ’11 was a runner-up for the prize for her play The Art of Gaman.
Jacob Gallagher-Ross ’09, DFA ’14 and Joseph Cermatori ’08 were honored at the 2016 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference. Jacob won the American Theatre and Drama Society’s Vera Mowry Roberts Award for Research and Publication for his article “Mediating the Method” in Theatre Survey. Joseph received an Honorable Mention for the ATHE Outstanding Article Prize for his article “Unsettling Gertrude Stein” in Modern Drama.
Shadi Ghaheri ’18 received a 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Shadi, a directing student, is originally from Iran.
Miriam Hyman ’12
Shadi Ghaheri ’18
01 Jacob Gallagher-Ross ’09, DFA ’14 receiving American Theatre and Drama Society’s Vera Mowry Roberts Award from selection committee chair Rosemarie Bank. 02 Kate Newman ’15 receiving the KM Fabrics, Inc. Technical Production Award from Paul Tantillo, President and CEO/ Principal at KM Fabrics, Inc. 03 Yi Zhao ’12 with his Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.
Lighting designer Yi Zhao ’12 was a winner of a 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre.
Shaunette Renée Wilson ’16
Genne Murphy ’18
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