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.
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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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