Briana Valderrey - Undergraduate Award Winner
Bert Williams and the Subtle Black Pantomime
Briana Valderrey is a recent graduate of the U of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned her BFA in Drama - Technical Production, focusing in stage management. Previously she has studied directing at Columbia U, and hopes to continue her education with a PhD in Performance Studies.
Samuel Kolodezh - Graduate Award Winner
Spectral Laughter: Constructing a Modern Subjectivity through Humor in The Castle Spectre
As a first year doctoral student in the Joint Ph.D Program in Drama and Theatre at the U of California, Irvine and U of California, San Diego, he is interested in the intersection between technology and identity, affect studies, and performance philosophy, alongside Shakespearean and Gothic drama, theatre and performance.
