2010 Geneseo Community Players Awards & Scholarships Below is a listing of Awards and Scholarships presented by the Geneseo Community Players in 2010. Click HERE for a printer friendly version of this list. 2008 Awards and Scholarships 2009 Awards and Scholarships Patty Moss Award for outstanding contributions as a performer to a Geneseo Central School senior. - ($150) Sarah Peace Sarah has participated in many productions at GCS, including Seussical, Little Women, Once Upon a Mattress, Up the Down Staircase, Honk!, The Orphan Train, Love, Death, and the Prom, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, and most notably, was Marian in The Music Man and Lola in Damn Yankees. She is currently the president of GCS Drama Club, and has been the secretary for the two years prior. In addition, she participated in The Wizard of Oz and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with GCP. She is a member of marching band, show choir, student council, and national honor society, and takes, teaches, and assists several styles of dance at Valley School of Dance. She was also voted "most musical" by her peers. Sarah plans to major in English in college, and to continue participating in theater and dance. Angela Saunders Award for achievement in technical theatre to a Geneseo Central School senior - ($150) Kathryn V. Esham Kathryn has participated in the GCS Drama Club for several years. Starting out as a follow spot operator for Once Upon a Mattress she worked her way up to assistant stage manager for Honk! and Orphan Train. She was the stage manager for The Music Man, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Love Death and the Prom, Damn Yankees and I Never Saw Another Butterfly. She was dubbed Most Involved by her peers due to her participation in ICE, concert band, chorus, orchestra, Odyssey of the Mind and role as yearbook editor, drum major for marching band and board of education representative for student council. Kathryn will be attending Alfred University in the fall to study ceramic engineering and technical theater. Robert Sinclair Award for outstanding achievement in acting and directing for a graduating senior from SUNY Geneseo - ($250) John Gasper John is a senior Theater/English Major with a penchant for absurd imagery and dancing horses. After graduation he will join his fellow artists in Rochester as playwright/actor/director of St. Fortune Productions, a theater and music performance ensemble founded by Geneseo students and dedicated to pushing the boundaries of theater. During his time at Geneseo he has had a hand and foot in many productions, whether as a writer, actor, or director, most of which have been student-produced. His most recent effort was directing and starring in Waiting for Godot, which was performed for the inmates of Groveland Correctional Facility and separately at the 1941 Geneseo Historical Aircraft Group Hangar down in the valley. Richard Story Award for excellence in design and technical theatre to a graduating senior from SUNY Geneseo ($250) Megan Ball Megan is a senior Theatre major, focusing in costume and makeup design.She has designed costumes for Two Gentlemen of Verona the Musical, The Pardon, and Mrs. Warren's Profession as well as makeup for The Seagull, The Threepenny Opera, and The Pirates of Penzance. Her other experiences include stage managing, assistant stage managing, house managing, scene painting, costume/makeup crew, and acting. 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. ($1,060) Maeghan Dineen Maeghan is a resident of Clifton Park, NY, and comes from a large family. She is the oldest of six children, all of whom she enjoys playing music with. She began studying the piano at the age of eight and later started playing the violin. It was in her last few years of high school that Maeghan found her true passion in music composition. Maeghan is proud to be a part of the School of the Arts at SUNY Geneseo. She will be entering her last year of studies in music composition under the direction of Dr. Anneliese Weibel. Maeghan loves playing the fiddle around the greater Rochester area with the Geneseo String Band, led by Professor Jim Kimball. She also participates in the Geneseo Student Music Association, (serving as their president last year). Maeghan loves music of all kinds, and takes every opportunity to learn a new instrument or musical genre- last year she studied organ under A. David Hurd, as well as Viola da Gamba under Dr. Patsy Campbell. As she enters her senior year, Maeghan has been selected to be a Presidential Scholar for the graduating class of 2011. She looks forward to her senior composition recital this spring as well as applying to graduate schools to further her studies in music composition! TOP