MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2018Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center

P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y

CLASS DAY CELEBRATION

ChairMichael Cadden

Executive DirectorMarion Young

LEWIS CENTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (2017-18)Michael Cadden, Theater

Jeffrey Eugenides, Creative WritingSu Friedrich, Visual ArtsJudith Hamera, Dance

Jhumpa Lahiri, Creative WritingSusan Marshall, Dance

Paul Muldoon, Creative WritingJames Richardson, Creative Writing

Joe Scanlan, Visual ArtsTracy K. Smith, Creative Writing

Jeff Whetstone, Visual ArtsSusan Wheeler, Creative Writing

Yiyun Li, Creative WritingStacy Wolf, Theater

LEWIS CENTER PROGRAM DIRECTORSJane Cox, Director, Program in Theater

Susan Marshall, Director, Program in Dance Paul Muldoon, Director, Princeton Atelier

Martha Friedman, Director, Program in Visual ArtsTracy K. Smith, Director, Program in Creative Writing

Stacy Wolf, Director, Program in Music Theater & Princeton Arts Fellows (on leave 2017-18) Robert Sandberg, Acting Director, Program in Music Theater & Princeton Arts Fellows

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Welcoming Remarks

PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITINGCongratulations Class of 2018 Certificate Students!

Senior AwardsProgram Highlights:Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor In The Humanities; Director, Princeton Atelier; Professor Of Creative Writing The Theodore Weiss AwardThis award was established in 2004 in memory of Professor Weiss, distinguished poet,founder and editor of the Quarterly Review of Literature, and Professor of English and Creative Writing. Presented annually to a promising young poet or, in exceptional circumstances, a fiction writer.

Isabella N. GrabskiRebecca N. Kahn

The Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Poetry PrizeEstablished as part of a charitable trust created in 1999 by Bernice Holmes, this prize is in memory of her brother Theodore H. Holmes ’51. Presented each year to a single talented poet who is also an undergraduate student of Princeton University.

Nicolas W. Freeman

A Note from Michael Cadden Chair, Lewis Center for the Arts

On behalf of the faculty and staff of Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, let me welcome our graduating students from the Class of 2018, their families, and their friends to this afternoon’s celebration of all that you have achieved! And by “you,” I mean not only our graduates, but their families and friends as well. You don’t get through Princeton on your own. Today we celebrate all those who have made this day possible!

The Lewis Center serves as the home of Princeton’s Programs in Creative Writing, Dance, Theater, Music Theater, and Visual Arts, as well as the Princeton Atelier. Although we are a relatively new academic entity, just over a decade old, the students gathered here today have never known a Princeton without what the Lewis Center has to offer. They are also the first Princeton students to have had the opportunity to work in the spaces now available in the new Lewis Arts complex, which we opened in the Fall.

More Princeton students than ever before now take courses in the arts — some because they are contemplating lives in the arts, but most because they want to experience the joys and sorrows, frustrations and mysteries of the artistic process in order to better understand the joys and sorrows, frustrations and mysteries of life itself. We hope our ninety-plus graduates feel they have grown from their successes and their failures. I can assure you that the faculty and staff feel the richer for having worked with our students on projects they were passionate about – both within the context of classes and independent work, as well as outside those formal structures. The faculty and staff of the Lewis Center happily count ourselves as part of the team that made their journey possible.

We’re delighted to use this Class Day in the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Theatre to gather together students from all the Programs of the Lewis Center. Consciously or not, you have been engaged with our faculty and staff in a collective enterprise best expressed in the Lewis Center motto crafted by our founding Chair, Paul Muldoon: “Princeton in the service of the imagination.” May the imagination we hope that we helped to nurture continue to grow and fuel you in the years ahead, whatever roads life takes you down.

Aliflam M. Aslaoui Fiona I. Bell Kyle M. Berlin Adam G. Berman Joy Chen Katherine R. Frain Nicolas W Freeman Isabella N. Grabski Aidan C. Gray Elliot M. Hirsch

Edric Huang Rebecca N. Kahn Anhar F. Karim Jay C. Kim Alicia Lai Sang H. Lee Lavinia Liang Allison D. Light Robert R. Marshall Alexandra K. Mendelsohn

Sarah F. Reeves Kevin Romero Catherine A. Saterson Rebecca L. Schnell Rosed N. Serrano David S. Shin Lydia G. Weintraub Mariah J. Wilson

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Outstanding Work by a Senior AwardThis award was created to honor one or more outstanding seniors for distinctive achievement in Creative Writing.Kyle M. Berlin Briana M. PaganoCharles F. East Kevin RomeroBenjamin L. Edelman Rosed N. SerranoPleasant N. Garner David S. ShinAiden C. Gray Imani S. ThorntonEdric Huang Mariah J. Wilson

Samuel Shellabarger Memorial Prize in Creative WritingThis fund is awarded annually to a senior who, in fulfillment of the senior thesis requirement, shows great promise of future literary excellence.

Catherine A. Saterson

Joyce Carol Oates AwardThis prize was established in 2014 in the name of Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus. The prize is awarded annually to a promising young fiction writer or, in exceptional circumstances, a poet.

Katherine R. Frain

Edmund Keeley Literary Translation AwardThis prize was established in 2016 in the name of Edmund Keeley, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus. Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emeritus. The prize is awarded to a promising young translator.

Fiona I. Bell

PROGRAM IN DANCECongratulations Class of 2018 Certificate Students!

Senior AwardsProgram Highlights:Susan Marshall, Director, Program in Dance

Francis LeMoyne Page Class of 1922 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative ArtsThis award was established in 1972 by the Trustees of the LeMoyne Page Foundation in memory of Francis LeMoyne Page, Class of 1922. Awarded annually to one or more members of the junior or senior class to honor distinctive achievement in the Creative Arts.

Ayla M. AllenAnna J. KimmelCecilia Shang

Outstanding Senior Creative Thesis AwardThis award was created to honor one or more outstanding seniors for distinctive achievement in Dance.

Clark A. Griffin India B. Rogers-SheppSelah V. Hampton Rachel S. Schwartz

Ze’eva Cohen Senior AwardThis award established in 2014 honors the Founding Director of the Program in Dance and is awarded to a student who began the study of dance in college and underwent an extraordinary transformation as an artist while contributing to the Dance Program.

Raheem M. Barnett

PROGRAM IN THEATERCongratulations Class of 2018 Certificate Students!

PROGRAM IN MUSIC THEATERCongratulations Class of 2018 Certificate Students!

Ayla M. AllenJessica L. Chambers Maia S. EzrattyClark A. GriffinSelah V. Hampton

Kristen A. JohnsonAnna J. KimmelJacqueline E. KopraTrent M. KowalikAnna M. Pearson

Natalie H. PlonkIndia B. Rogers-SheppRachel S. SchwartzCecilia Shang

Fiona I. BellKyle M. Berlin Patrick L. BoroughsMiles D. CareyGraham M. CousinsSergio L. Cruz Samuel K. DaviesKathryn M. FrorerAida Garrido

Evan J. GedrichKatherine E. GiordanoMichelle L. GoldmanJared B. HopperAbigail R. Jean-BaptisteRachel A. KesslerDaniel M. KraneNicolas T. KrellAllison D. Light

Ugonna E. NwabuezeMeagan S. RakerMagdalena StankowskaNehemiah M. TeferiAlexandra A. VogelsangEmma C. WatkinsLydia M. WattChuli Zeng

Melanie G. BermanEvan J. GedrichAnkita Ghoshal

Katherine E. GiordanoJared B. HopperNicolas T. Krell

Solene R. Le VanMeagan S. RakerEmma C. Watkins

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Senior Awards Program Highlights: Jane Cox, Director, Program in Theater and Robert Sandberg, Acting Director, Program in Music Theater

Outstanding Work by a Senior AwardThis award was created to honor one or more outstanding seniors for distinctive achievement in Theater.

Abigail R. Jean-Baptiste (Award for creative and community leadership in Theater and Music Theater Program)Ugonna E. Nwabueze (Award for Thesis production that most expanded our sense of community)

Francis LeMoyne Page Class of 1922 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative ArtsThis award was established in 1972 by the Trustees of the LeMoyne Page Foundation in memory of Francis LeMoyne Page, Class of 1922. Awarded annually to one or more members of the junior or senior class to honor distinctive achievement in the Creative Arts.

Alexandra A. VogelsangLydia M. Watt

Music Theater AwardTo a senior who has demonstrated a commitment to and significant accomplishment in developing, re-imagining, or creating new work in music theater.

Evan J. Gedrich (Outstanding new work of Music Theater)Emma C. Watkins (Outstanding new work of Music Theater)

Tim Vasen AwardIn honor of former Program in Theater director Tim Vasen, this award is presented to a senior who has demonstrated dedication, passion, risk-taking, and significant accomplishment in the making of theater throughout his or her years at Princeton.

Magdalena Stankowska (For all around talent and citizenship in the Theater Program)

PROGRAM IN VISUAL ARTSCongratulations Class of 2018 Certificate and Practice of Art (PA) Students!

Senior Awards Program Highlights:Martha Friedman, Director, Program in Visual Arts

Lucas Award in Visual ArtsThis award was established in 1998 by Herbert L. Lucas, Class of 1950 and was amended in 2004 to recognize excellence and the quality of a body of work by graduating seniors in painting, sculpture, photography, film, and media.

Gabrielle Chen Heather E. GraceGabriella Chu Helen LinImani N. Ford Patrick T. RooneyGabrielle Gibbons Angelica M. VielmaGwyndolyn E. Goldfeder Jonathan Zong

Jim Seawright Award in Visual ArtsEstablished in 2009 in honor of Jim Seawright, Professor of Visual Arts, this award is presented annually to a student whose work exemplifies exceptional originality or innovation in any media in the Program in Visual Arts.

Eric Y. Li

LEWIS CENTER SENIOR AWARDPresentation of Award:Michael Cadden, Chair, Lewis Center for the Arts

The Louis Sudler Prize in the ArtsThe prize is presented annually to one or more graduating seniors who have demonstrated excellence in performance, execution, or composition in one of the arts.

Fiona I. BellNicolas T. Krell

Closing Remarks

Ceremony followed by a reception.Sandra L. Carpenter Gabrielle ChenGabriella Chu Logan Dziak Imani N. FordGabrielle GibbonsGwyndolyn E. Goldfeder

Heather E. Grace Mihika KapoorAnhar F. KarimPaulina E. KingEric Y. LiHelen LinKathleen L. Ma

Patrick T. RooneyRachel S. SchwartzAngelica M. VielmaMariah J. WilsonJonathan Zong