Undergraduate Internships and Activities

Theatre undergraduates were featured prominently in Actors' Theatre Company's 2002 summer season. Eleni Papaleonardos, Stephen Hanna, Aiyana Marcus, and Joe Maloney appeared with PHD student Tonia Krueger in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Matt Hendricks, Jonathan Marballi, and Anthony Peeples appeared in Othello.

The Panopticon Players produced a collection of one-acts by David Ives. Sarah Brinker directed Sure Thing; Dominic Leppla directed The Philadelphia; Jeremy Karsten directed English Made Simple; David Hendricks directed Arabian Nights; and Liz Snider directed Captive Audience.

Ryan Heitkamp played a leading role in Rat Boy, a short independent horror film produced by Grandview's Havener Productions.

Shelley Little, Katie Miller, Allyson Morgan, Leah Reddy, Joey Schultz, and Peter Schwartz produced a benefit performance for Human Rights Awareness. The performance, which took place outside of the main library, presented testimonial monologues about survivors of human rights violations.

Joe Lonardo appeared on MTV's Dismissed and in the Ja Rule video for "Livin' it Up."

Jonathan Marballi worked in Cincinnati on a student film called Roommate: Wanted.

Rebekah Moser, current video lab work-study student, who is also studying screenwriting, won the Arnold and Frances Shapiro International Scholarship in English.

Leah Reddy was one of twenty nationwide applicants selected to participate in Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Massachusetts Summer Training Institute.

Peter Schwartz and Sarah Brinker performed in Strollers Theatrics' production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

Laura Gale Simpson created, directed and performed in The Ensemble Actors' Theatre production of Happily Ever After, a modern version of the story of Romeo and Juliet in which Juliet awakens the instant before Romeo commits his fatal error. She created this play as part of an Honor Thesis Project, funded by The Ohio State University. Laura is a co-founder and permanent company member of Ensemble Actors' Theatre. Other EAT productions in their ambitious season included: Flawed, by Greg Meier; True West, by Sam Shepard; and…and…and, by Chris Dickman, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Other students and alumni involved with these productions included Jennifer Bach, Abby Crain, James Creighton, Brea Fitzgerald, Tom Greer, Matt Hendricks, Bean Mazak, Katie Miller, Allyson Morgan, Leah Reddy, Christina Sidebottom, and Brayshawna Thomas.

Jody Stevenson has been accepted into the National Theatre of the Deaf.

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