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Theatre and Performance
In its Honors Program the Theatre and Performance Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2024-2025
- Sarah Elise Mahooti, (Honors)
Rich Lowry + Jeremy Quick, Holly Maples
- Anya Leigh Ruzicka, (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf + David Garrett, Bryan Schmidt, Alicia Andrzejewski
2023-2024
- Cecilia Rose Funk, (Highest Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + David Garrett, Claire McKinney, Bryan Schmidt
- Ella Jo Nguyen, (High Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + Claire Pamment, Holly Maples, Jon Pineda
2022-2023
- No Honors students this year
2021-2022
- No Honors students this year
2020-2021
- Abeer Ayyoub, "" (Highest Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + Brian Castleberry, Elizabeth Wiley, Mark Lerman - Zoë Smith, "" (Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + Elizabeth Wiley, Christopher Owens, Claire McKinney
2019-2020
- Christian Crabbs, "" (High Honors)
Steve Holliday + Christopher Owens, Patricia Wesp, Mary Fletcher
2018-19
- Sarah Marksteine, ""
Laurie Wolf + Elizabeth Wiley, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Robert Scholnik
2017-18
- No Honors students this year
2016-17
- No Honors students this year
2016-17
- Rosalynd Duerr, "" (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Claire Pamment, Simon Joyce
2015-16
- No Honors students this year
2014-15
- Shaan Sharma, (High Honors)
Richard Palmer + Christopher Owens, Elizabeth Wiley and Carey Bagdassarian - Stephanie Vinsavich, (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Dorothy Ibes, Elizabeth Wiley and Robert Ruffin
2013-14
- Josh Blum, (Honors) Matthew Allar + Laurie Wolf, Richard Palmer, Arthur Knight
- Anne Kehrli, "" (Honors) Laurie J. Wolf + Gary L. Green, Elizabeth A. Wiley
- Kevin Place, (High Honors) Richard Palmer + Laurie Wolf, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Amy Oakes
- Kelsey Schneider, (Highest Honors) Richard H. Palmer + Laurie J. Wolf, Elizabeth Wiley, Arthur Knight
- Rebecca Turner, (Highest Honors) Laurie J. Wolf +
Artisia Green, Richard H. Palmer, Free Williams
2012-13
- Nathan Alston, (Honors)
Artisia Green + Leah Glenn, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Lynn Weiss - Jamar Jones, (High Honors)
Artisia Green + Leah Glenn, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Anne Charity-Hudley - Ben Lauer, (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Elizabeth Wiley, Richard Palmer, Laura Friedman - Nicholas Martin, (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Richard Palmer, Joan Gavaler Varun Begley
2011-12
- Larissa Kruesi, "" (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Matthew Allar, Varun Begley, Richard Palmer
2010-11
- Megan Behm, (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf+ Richard Palmer, Elizabeth Wiley, Brett Wilson - Lauren Cheniae, (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Richard Palmer, James Savage
2009-10
- Keegan Cassady, "The Man You're Not: Comedy, Violence, and the Performance of Masculinity in Peter Straughan's Bones" (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Richard Palmer, Christopher Owens, Naama Zahavi Ely - David Moody, (Honors)
Christopher Owens + Richard Palmer, Elizabeth Mead, Brian Hulse
2008-09
- Stephen Cole, (Honors)
Richard Palmer + Laurie Wolf, Lizabeth Allison
- Elena Lower, "La Celestina: Whores, Conversos and Rogues" (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Richard Palmer, Gary Green, Georgia Irby-Massie
- Katharine Schellman, (High Honors)
Richard Palmer + Elizabeth Wiley, Brad Weiss
2006-07
- David Bisaha, "Analyzing Myths of Sam Shepard's True West in Theory and Performance" (High Honors)
Michale Mehler + Laurie Wolf, George Greenia - Kellyn Johnson, "Her Eye Discourses: Answering the Female Gaze" (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Michael Mehler, Elizabeth Wiley, R. Carter Hailey - Jacqueline Ross, "Deconstructing Chaos: Unity of Perception in an Audience of One" (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Gary Green, M. Fonkijom Fusi, Ron St. Onge
2005-06
- Sarah Strehle, "Stop Kiss: Creating a Scenic Design" (High Honors)
Michael Mehler + Laurie Wolf, Colleen Kennedy
2004-05
- Katherine Earnest
Richard Palmer + Gary Green, Rachel DiNitto