2021 & 2022 Commencement Program

DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE CELEBRATES

THE CLASSES OF 2021

and

Monday, May 23, 2022 University Theatre

2022

Ceremony James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean and Faculty Marshal Ariel Yan, Registrar

Welcome Land Acknowledgment:

Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.

Remarks Presentation of Prizes: The ASCAP Cole Porter Prize

The Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize

The Edward C. Cole Memorial Award

The Donald and Zorka Oenslager

The Carol Finch Dye Prize

Travel Fellowship

The John W. Gassner Memorial Prize

The Pierre-André Salim Prize

The Bert Gruver Memorial Prize

The Bronislaw (Ben) Sammler Mentorship

The Allen M. and Hildred L. Harvey Prize The Morris J. Kaplan Prize The Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize The Jay Keene and Jean Griffin-Keene Prize The Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship

Award The Frieda Shaw, Dr. Diana Mason OBE, and Denise Suttor Prize for Sound Design The Oliver Thorndike Acting Award The George C. White Prize The Herschel Williams Prize

in Design

Presentation of Certificates and Degrees Closing Remarks Reception Please join the graduates for a reception immediately following this ceremony at the Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven.

A very special thanks to David Chu of c2 inc. for providing today’s live captioning.

Classes of 2021 and 2022 Technical Internship Jenna Lauren Carroll

Twi McCallum

Rebecca A. Satzberg

Christina Dragen-Dima

Micah Elizabeth Ohno

Alary Nicholas Sutherland

Patrick Marron Ball

Maia Mihanovich

m. imani west

Anthony Warren Holiday

John Bert Sullivan

Jessica Anne Yates

Rebecca Ann Adelsheim

Anna Elise Grigo

Kelly O’Loughlin

Benjamin Nathanael Benne

Daniela Victoria Hart

Edmond Lamar O’Neal II

Christopher Betts

Angeline Bridgette Jones

Eliza Liefland Orleans

Rebekah Eden Brown

Alexandra Warren Keegan

Emma Rose Perrin

Katherine Elizabeth Byron

Doun Kim

Dominick John Pinto

Martin Elliot Caan

Jisun Kim

Joanelle Moriah Polk

Sarah Ashley Cain

Nicole Elizabeth Lang

Margaret H. Powers

Cameron Julian Camden

Bridget Nicole Lindsay

Oakton Anthony Reynolds

Madeline June Carey

Daniel J. Liu

Henriëtte Rietveld

Estefani Castro

Brandon Marc Lovejoy

Julian Xavier Sanchez

Laura Copenhaver

Shaoqian Lu

Madeline French Seidman

Nefesh X. Cordero Pino

Amanda Luke

Adam Siddiqui Shaukat

Shannon Paige Csorny

Sarah Anne Lyddan

Hyejin Son

Francesca Giovina DeCicco

Danielle Christine Mader

James Lawrence Stubbs

Patrick Roon Denney

Gloria Peter Majule

Camilla Tassi

Caitlin Margaret Dutkiewicz

Stephen Elliot Marks

Jackeline Torres Cortés

Olusola Olubukunmi Fadiran

Alexandra Darlene Maurice

Bailey Elan Trierweiler

Riva Michelle Fairhall

David James Mitsch

Eric Leslie Walker

William Abraham Gaines

Phuong Nguyen

Matthew Elijah Webb

Maeli Ariel Goren

Lauren Noel Nichols

Yuhan Zhang

Sophie Irene Greenspan

Reed Northrup

Jinghong Zhu

Jihane Fareseddine

Certificate in Drama

Master of Fine Arts

Doctor of Fine Arts Taylor Jamal Barfield

Helen Christine Jaksch

Nahuel Telleria

David Emerson Bruin

Charles William Blake O’Malley

Brian David Valencia

Ashley Dayoung Chang Maria Inês Evangelista De Oliveira Marques

Gavin Alexander Whitehead

History of the School Yale University founded a Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts in 1924 through the generosity of Edward S. Harkness, B.A. 1897.

In 1925, while the University Theatre was under construction, the first class of students was enrolled. George Pierce Baker, the foremost teacher of playwriting in America, joined the faculty to serve as the first chair of the department, and the first Master of Fine Arts in Drama was conferred in 1931.

In 1955, by vote of the Yale Corporation, the department was organized as a separate professional school, Yale School of Drama, offering the degrees of Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Fine Arts, and Certificate in Drama (for those students who complete the three-year program without having the normally prerequisite bachelor’s degree).

The School is now David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University in celebration of a $150 million gift made by the David Geffen Foundation in 2021 to support tuition remission for all degree and certificate students in perpetuity.

Iconography of the School Shield

The shield of David Geffen School of Drama, designed by Theodore Sizer, incorporates the gold spear from William Shakespeare’s coat of arms on a gray background with gold footlights and a red stage curtain drawn back by three decorative gold buttons and a gold tassel.

Mace

The David Geffen School of Drama mace, designed by Ming Cho Lee, is an interpretation of the comedy and tragedy masks that are established symbols of theater—tangible representations of the act of taking on a character.

As the central idea of his design, Professor Lee foregrounded the elevated emotional value of these icons to highlight theater’s eloquence in expressing the range of human experience.

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