2009 Geneseo Community Players Awards & Scholarships Geneseo Community Players gives two scholarships in the amount of $150 each, to two Geneseo Central School seniors who have participated in the theater throughout their school careers. One award is for technical theater and one is for acting. Click HERE for the application form. Deadline for submission is Friday, March 15, 2010. Below is a listing of Awards and Scholarships presented by the Geneseo Community Players in 2009. Click HERE for a printer friendly version of this list. Click HERE for the 2008 Awards and Scholarships. Patty Moss Award for outstanding contributions as a performer to a Geneseo Central School senior. - ($150) Connor Creagan Connor has appeared onstage at GCS as a member of Fagin's Gang in Oliver!, a Wickersham Brother in Seussical, Thoreau in Little Women of Orchard House, the Wizard in Once Upon a Mattress, the Cat in Honk! and many varied roles in the drama, The Orphan Train. He most recently starred as Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man and Helsa in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. When not onstage at school, Connor has lent his talent to several Geneseo Community Players productions. Connor is a member of National Honor Society and has designed the cover for this year's yearbook. He was selected for All-County Chorus and voted Most Dramatic by his peers. Connor is slated to co-direct GCS's first student directed production, Love, Death and the Prom in May. Future plans include attending college for performing and visual arts. Angela Saunders Award for achievement in technical theatre to a Geneseo Central School senior - ($150) Sarah Risley Sarah is a veteran of the costume crew! She has worked on the GCS productions of Oliver!, Seussical, Honk!, The Orphan Train, The Music Man and The Musical comedy Murders of 1940. She is a member of Earth Wise Club and serves as the editor of the yearbook. Sarah also studies modern dance. After high school, Sarah plans to attend college and to live in academic bliss pursuing writing, African American Studies and Art History. Her goal is to possibly obtain an English teaching degree. After college she would like to participate in the Peace Corps and then see where life takes her. Robert Sinclair Award for outstanding achievement in acting and directing for a graduating senior from SUNY Geneseo - ($250) Daniel Carroll Danny is a senior Theatre/English major who will be attending the New School in the fall to begin his MFA in Playwriting. He will have a play produced this summer at the Omaha playwrights' festival. He has written and had produced five plays in his years at Geneseo, and he starred as Macheath in The Threepenny Opera last fall and played the lead in a Day in the Death of Joe Egg the year before. He has directed several of his own plays. Richard Story Award for excellence in design and technical theatre to a graduating senior from SUNY Geneseo ($250) Elizabeth Robson Lyz is a senior Theatre major who intends to pursue sound design professionally. She will be resident sound designer for a company in Michigan this summer. She designed sound for several VegSOUP productions and did her senior project in sound design. The Eric Grammas Memorial Endowed Scholarship is awarded to a continuing SUNY Geneseo student majoring in Performing Arts who has overcome great obstacles through hard work, perseverance, and determination in the pursuit of his/her dreams. This scholarship is in memory of Eric Grammas, Class of 2005, and is supported by a generous endowment established by Eric’s family, friends, and the Geneseo Community Players. ($1,250) Jesse Kinne Jesse is from Greece, NY and is a Music Theory major with a Piano Pedagogy minor. He is the vice president of the Student Music Association, a teaching assistant for Music Theory and History of Music courses, and a stage/concert hall manager. Jesse was inducted into Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society for his freshman academic performance and is composing music for a staged production of Alice in Wonderland. He enjoys working with children and on his family’s horse farm. TOP