Department Honors for Undergraduate Theses
Riley Glick
Blood Orange Accounts: Process and Practice
Lila Marooney
The Very Big and the Very Small: A Revision of Directorial Praxis
Max Reichek
Just Good Friends: A Play of Language, Love, and Same-Sex Relationships in the 1800s
Maelea Tan
Grief UnMasked
Departmental Excellence Award for Undergraduate Students
Recognizes selected students from all four undergraduate classes with strong academic records and outstanding records in theatre production and design
First-Year
- Agnes Bijole-Himes
- Diane Li
- Zakariah Hany Massoud
- Anna Patel
Second-Year
- Nastia Goddard
- Theo Gyra
- Lily Ramras
Junior
- Ethan Karas
- Leo Kurland
- Esteban Ortiz-Villacorta Aguirre
- Ella Stevens
Senior
- Matheus Barbee
- Claire Guthrie
- Adelina Marinello
- Carter Popkin
Theatre Departmental Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service
For leadership and service to the theatre department
- Frances McKittrick
- Elise Pakiela
- Eric Powers
Aurand Harris Award
Awarded to honor excellence in children’s theatre; established in 1998 to honor the late Aurand Harris (C39), who became the most decorated and produced children’s playwright in America
- Isadora Coco Gonzalez
Agnes Nixon Playwriting Awards
Provides a cash award and a production to winners of the annual playwriting competition, underwritten by a trust fund established to help playwrights by Northwestern alumna Agnes Nixon, an extremely prolific television writer who created or served as head writer for numerous daytime serials
- Alena Haney
- Mantra Radhakrishnan
- Alondra Rios
Norrenbrock Design Award
Created to commemorate the life and work of Tony Norrenbrock, who died in 1989 and who, though his period of service with the theatre department was relatively brief, inspired countless students with his creativity and love of his craft
- Hannah Clark
Susan Rae Anderson Vetrono and Clarke J. Vetrono Scholarship
Presented to an outstanding theatre student with an interest in children’s theatre
- Natalie Tangeman
Winifred Ward Award
Presented by Zeta Phi Eta to a student interested in creative dramatics; honors the memory of Winifred Ward, a School of Communication faculty member from 1918 to 1950, who cofounded one of the first US children’s theatres and made creative dramatics a new discipline in American education
- Mattea Muench
John Woodbridge Williams Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to a talented design program graduate student, preferably a lighting designer; established in 1994 by family, friends, and colleagues of John Woodbridge Williams—a theatre professor from 1974 to 1992, talented lighting designer, gifted and inspiring teacher, and giving humanitarian—to honor his life and work
- Regina Harris