Department Honors for Undergraduate Theses
- Magdalena Dalzell
Incorporating Principles of Intimacy Choreography into Rehearsal Room Procedures - Pallas Gutierrez
50 Years of Latinx Representation in Musical Theatre
- Julia Mann
Surviving the “War on Culture”: INDEPENDENT THEATRE in Orban’s Hungary
- Riley Nelson
THY NAME IS WOMAN: an examination of female performance of Hamlet through a feminist lens - Nolan Robinson
Transcending the Stage: exploring the applicability of an actor’s training to other vocations and our everyday lives - Lydia Weir
“I am Writing a Thesis on Joan”: An Analysis of Lesbian Relationships in Broadway Musicals
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
- Lucia Katz
- Elise Pakiela
- Mantra Radhakrishnan
- Alondra Rios
Second-Year
- Sunnie Eraso
- Mikaela Fenn
- Arella Flur
- Anelga Hajjar
- Natalie Rarick
Junior
- Simran Deokule
- Ruby Gibson
- Claire Kwon
- Samara Malik
- Mariana Reyes-Daza
Senior
- Hailey Brunson
- Delia Cunningham
- Jacob Leaf
- Nolan Robinson
Department Award for Excellence in Acting: The Showcase
Students selected to participate in a showcase for agents and casting directors
- Marisol Beaufrand
- Hailey Brunson
- Stella Cole
- Jonathan Connolly
- Isaiah Frank
- Nathan Karnik
- Remy Laifer
- Jacob Leaf
- Gabi Leibowitz
- Elijah McNally
- Leo Merrick
- Amelia Prochaska
- Nolan Robinson
- Liana Runcie
- Jasmine Sharma
- Cassidy Sledge
- Emmet Smith
- Carson Stewart
- Saidie Stone
- Stef Tedards
- Matthew Threadgill
Department Award for Excellence in Music Theatre: The Showcase
Students selected to participate in a showcase for agents and casting directors
- Annie Beaubien
- Maddie Burton
- Gracie Cashman
- Kate Coffey
- Stella Cole
- Jonathan Connolly
- Delia Cunningham
- John Ertman
- Freyja Goldstein
- Theo Janke-Furman
- Nathan Karnik
- Danielle Kerr
- Remy Laifer
- Emily Landreth
- Jacob Leaf
- Alexa Moster
- Maya Pierce
- Amelia Prochaska
- Nolan Robinson
- Jasmine Sharma
- Cassidy Sledge
- Emmet Smith
- Carson Stewart
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
- Ismael Lara
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
- Anelga Hajjar
- Rishi Mahesh
- Carson Stewart
Norrenbrock Design Award
The Norrenbrock award was created to commemorate the life and work of Tony Norrenbrock, who died on September 22, 1989. Though Tony’s period of service with our theatre department was relatively brief, his creativity and love of his craft inspired countless students
- Yun Lin
Susan Rae Anderson Vetrono and Clarke J. Vetrono Scholarship
Presented to an outstanding theatre student with an interest in children’s theatre
- Natalie Rarick
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
- Julia Laurenson
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
- Maximo Grano De Oro