Theatre, Speech, and Dance
In its Honors Program the Theatre, Speech and Dance 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
2023-2024
- Cecilia Rose Funk, "“When making a left turn, you must downshift while going forward:” Reading, Analyzing & Staging of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive as a Senior Directorial" (Highest Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + David Garrett, Claire McKinney, Bryan Schmidt
- Ella Jo Nguyen, "“No Iphis can I be” Exploring Lesbianism and Gender Fluidity Through Adaptation/Fanfiction of Twelfth Night in One and the Same, an Original Play" (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, "On Developing Psych Ward: A Play Representing Mental Illnesses and Personality Disorders" (Highest Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + Brian Castleberry, Elizabeth Wiley, Mark Lerman - Zoë Smith, "My Voice, My Power: Finding Agency in the Creation of New Dramatic Work" (Honors)
Laurie J. Wolf + Elizabeth Wiley, Christopher Owens, Claire McKinney
2019-2020
- Christian Crabbs, "Lighting Design Analysis of She Kills Monsters" (High Honors)
Steve Holliday + Christopher Owens, Patricia Wesp, Mary Fletcher
2018-19
- Sarah Marksteine, "The Creation of Original Cymbeline Companion Piece Lady Tongue for Professional Submission: Increasing Opportunity for Women in the Classical Theatre Sphere"
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, "Feminist Theatre: A Practical Application" (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Claire Pamment, Simon Joyce
2015-16
- No Honors students this year
2014-15
- Shaan Sharma, "Taming of Monsters: The Postdramatic Case for Copenhagen" (High Honors)
Richard Palmer + Christopher Owens, Elizabeth Wiley and Carey Bagdassarian - Stephanie Vinsavich, "Ecology and Theatre: Teaching About Conservation Through Performances of The Jungle Book" (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Dorothy Ibes, Elizabeth Wiley and Robert Ruffin
2013-14
- Josh Blum, "Designing with Gendered Space: Incorporating Gender into the Scenic Design of Clybourne Park" (Honors) Matthew Allar + Laurie Wolf, Richard Palmer, Arthur Knight
- Anne Kehrli, "Bard in the Gondola, Barred in the Ghetto: Operatic Adaptations of Shakespearean Text and Italian Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century" (Honors) Laurie J. Wolf + Gary L. Green, Elizabeth A. Wiley
- Kevin Place, "Re-Staging Rivera's Marisol: Identities, Projections, and New Mythologies" (High Honors) Richard Palmer + Laurie Wolf, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Amy Oakes
- Kelsey Schneider, "'The Embrace is Inevitable': Connection and Audience Engagement in Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play" (Highest Honors) Richard H. Palmer + Laurie J. Wolf, Elizabeth Wiley, Arthur Knight
- Rebecca Turner, "'What Light. What Possibilities. What Hope.' Revolutionary Millennialism in José Rivera's Marisol" (Highest Honors) Laurie J. Wolf +
Artisia Green, Richard H. Palmer, Free Williams
2012-13
- Nathan Alston, "Silencing the Black Body; A Look at Non-Traditional Casting in a Liberal Arts Education" (Honors)
Artisia Green + Leah Glenn, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Lynn Weiss - Jamar Jones, "To Arrive and Conquer: An Individual's Rite of Passage through Recognition of Ritual on Stage" (High Honors)
Artisia Green + Leah Glenn, Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Anne Charity-Hudley - Ben Lauer, "The Winter's Tale: Liminality and Communitas in Analysis and Performance" (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Elizabeth Wiley, Richard Palmer, Laura Friedman - Nicholas Martin, "The Effect of Masked Performance Techniques on the Perception of Identity" (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Richard Palmer, Joan Gavaler Varun Begley
2011-12
- Larissa Kruesi, "How to Incite Audiences and Engage Actors: Environmental Theatre and the Second Circle" (High Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Matthew Allar, Varun Begley, Richard Palmer
2010-11
- Megan Behm, "The "Opposite of People": Theatrical Doubling and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (Highest Honors)
Laurie Wolf+ Richard Palmer, Elizabeth Wiley, Brett Wilson - Lauren Cheniae, "'Kis Myne Ars': Chronicling the Education of English Mystery Plays" (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, "Little Shop of Horrors Comparative Lighting Designs Through Stage Directions" (Honors)
Christopher Owens + Richard Palmer, Elizabeth Mead, Brian Hulse
2008-09
- Stephen Cole, "Making Connections: Science and Theatre in Complicite's Mnemonic" (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, "Going With the Flow: Identifying a Single Commonality in Written and Performed Acting Theory" (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
