Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

D Y S O N Y E A R I N R E V I E W • 2 0 1 9 – 2 0 2 0 22 EYE ON ARTS Talent File Dream On, a screenplay by Lubin School of Business student Jacky Bethea '22 and Brennan Conley '24, majoring in digital cinema and filmmaking, was named a semifinalist for the 2019 Coca-Cola Regal Film contest, a student competition in which grand-prize winners receive a national screening of their film. Chris Guerra '09, BFA Musical Theater, was invited to join the Main Company at Los Angeles's legendary Groundlings Theatre. As part of the select group, Guerra will create and perform in weekly sketch comedy shows. The Groundlings alumni include well-known comic talents Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, and Kristen Wiig. Fancy Maids by Harold Hodge Jr. '18, BA Directing, was named "Outstanding Play" at the inaugural Rave Theater Festival in New York. Inspired by the #MeToo movement, the play examines the lives of black women in the pre-abolition North. Hodge also directed the festival performance. Darriel Johnakin '23 won Dance Spirit magazine's 2019 Cover Model Search contest. A commercial dance major, Johnakin was featured on the magazine's fall 2019 cover. Kizzmett Pringle '20, MFA Acting, was named a Princess Grace Foundation 2019 Theater Honoraria recipient. Estab - lished to honor the legacy of Grace Kelly, the foundation is dedicated to elevating emerging artists. Actors Studio Drama School MFA Directing alumnus Danny Gorman '15 directed the world premiere of Transformations. The theatrical event, scored by Ted Nash and curated by and starring the legendary Glenn Close, was staged at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Prior to working on Transfor - mations, Gorman was assistant director on Scotland, PA, a new musical staged at New York's Roundabout Theatre Company and selected as a Critic's Pick by The New York Times. Being selected to become a Radio City Rockette has been a dream come true for Sydney Mesher '19, BFA Commercial Dance. The honor is even more remarkable as she is the first professional dancer with a visible disability to join the world- famous group. "I credit a lot of my success to my experience at Pace," she said. Born with a congenital condition that left her without a left hand, Mesher joined fellow Rockettes Elizabeth DuPont '18, Emily King '19, Kathleen Laituri '18, Maile Makaafi '19, Johanna Piper '19, and Maddie Rodrigue '18 for the 2019 Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Pace Performing Arts: 6 to Watch 1 Gabi Campo '18 BFA MUSICAL THEATER West Side Story (Broadway) 4 Hayley Griffith '16 BFA ACTING Satanic Panic (film) 5 Ashley Romans '15 BA THEATER ARTS NOS4A2 (television, AMC) 2 Charlie Franklin '14 BFA MUSICAL THEATER Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Broadway) 3 Celia Rose Gooding '24 BFA MUSICAL THEATER Jagged Little Pill (Broadway) 6 Rafael Silva '17 BFA ACTING FOR FILM, TELEVISION, VOICE-OVERS, AND COMMERCIALS 9-1-1: Lonestar (television, Fox) News & Notes

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