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SUU Festival of Excellence 2019

9:00am MDT

That's All MC 116Caye Clark • Zadie Farris • Kyrsten Harper • Kayla Neilson • Kylie Parks • Caden Thomas “How Could a Woman Do It?”: Animal Materiality in the Taxidermy of Martha Maxwell BUS 246Julie McCown Bringing a Brand to Life: How Four Students Helped a Local Business Establish a New Identity BUS 244Billy Clouse • Monica Lee • Kaylee Prunty • Dustin Pullman 15-Minute Hairspray MU - Thorley Recital HallFinley Caciola • Angela Clyde • Danny Keetch • Zachary Mittleman • Trinity Rodriguez BioBot LIB - LobbyHector Cruz Demarcation: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah MA - SUMASam Davis Longing Love LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Burgess Milner

9:20am MDT

Jose Limón's "Chaconne" (excerpts & movement research) MC 116Kayla Nelson • Nick Blaylock “Dark Matter”: Science as Metaphor in the Poetry of Jared Carter BUS 246Bryce Christensen View from the Tech Booth: Remembering the Unappreciated BUS 244Tyler Brimhall • Hannah Duncan • Courtney Hofland

9:25am MDT

Directing II 3-Minute Film Festival MU - Thorley Recital HallMegan Bishop • Ethan Blair • William Cowser • Amanda DeBry • First Place Winner • Second Place Winner • Third Place Winner

9:40am MDT

isn't MC 116Mary McAllister

10:00am MDT

Dustin Pullman (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMADustin Pullman The Performative Body: Emotion Science and Utopia in Performance BUS 244Scott Knowles You are What You Eat: I, Zombie, Passing, and the Role of Food in Modern Zombie Television BUS 246Charla Strosser Painting in Egg Tempera MA - SUMAHala Swearingen

10:10am MDT

Have you met TED...x? ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomBrad Haralson

10:15am MDT

"Lords and Ladies", Kaylee Prunty (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMAKaylee Prunty

10:20am MDT

Days and Days - Fun Home MU - Thorley Recital HallSara Funk The SUU Wind Symphony: This is Not Your Grandma's Concert Band BUS 244Adam Lambert

10:30am MDT

"Up A Tree", H. Ainsley Steed (BFA Exhibition, Illustration) MA - SUMAH. Ainsley Steed

10:40am MDT

Piano Sonata No. 1: Beginnings MU - Thorley Recital HallBrandon Grayson

10:45am MDT

Emily Mitchell (BFA Exhibition, Illustration) MA - SUMAEmily Mitchell

10:50am MDT

How Will I Know MC 116Taja Barrett • Olivia Beck • Nadia Gomez • Destiny Goodrich • Alyssa Goussak • Abigail Llorens • Hayley Milne • Kayla Nelson • Parker Nelson • Kenzie Piascik • Kalli Sanders • Sydney Schaper • Whitney Stevens • Taylor Tenney • Kaitlin Tew

1:00pm MDT

Tanah Hislop's Portfolio JT - Randall Jones LobbyTanah Hislop Alana Tapaha (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMAAlana Tapaha Constellations: A Black Box Grant Preview ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomEmma Folwell • Zachary Mercer • Rebecca Smith Ending at the Beginning: George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and the Half-Life of Creativity BUS 244Parker Rawlins Seven Places You're Not BUS 243Tyler Brimhall • Hannah Duncan • Courtney Hofland Bach's Christ lag in Todes Banden: A Performance-Lecture MU - Thorley Recital HallDouglas Ipson Gender Inequality in Modern Day Horror Movies LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jessi Towe Low Cost Photonic Crystal for Biomedical Applications LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Garrett Mackelprang The State of the Art LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bridget Intessimone

1:10pm MDT

Theatrical Balance: A Day in the Life of a Stage Manager JT - Randall Jones LobbyKatarina Taratko

1:15pm MDT

Hannah Sams (BFA Exhibition, Photography) MA - SUMAHannah Sams

1:20pm MDT

BFA Design and Tech Portfolio JT - Randall Jones LobbyLillian Willis Alex and James ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomDavid Handy • Cameron Martin • Sean Militscher No Small Parts: How and Why Artists Create Cohesion in Theatre Groups BUS 243Timsy Rowe

1:30pm MDT

Technical Direction: The Only Direction JT - Randall Jones LobbyTiffany Cannon Jeremy Sorensen (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMAJeremy Sorensen

1:40pm MDT

Scenic Art Portfolio JT - Randall Jones LobbyNatasha Whitney A Comparison of Chlorophyll Concentrations in Southern Utah Rivers and Streams BUS 244Jaxon Barney • Max Bowles • Mohammad Samha • Ryan Schroeder It's Hair and There and Everywhere (Working Title) BUS 243Mara Meighen TJ and Dave do a Play ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomDavid Handy • TJ Horton

1:45pm MDT

Kyla Swain (BFA Exhibition, Photography) MA - SUMAKyla Swain

1:50pm MDT

Tony's Portfolio Presentation JT - Randall Jones LobbyTony Solano

2:00pm MDT

I'm a Stage Manager JT - Randall Jones LobbyKianna Casey Bring Him Home from Les Misérables MU - Thorley Recital HallNathan Myers Queering Utah through Political Cartoons BUS 244Melynda Thorpe

2:10pm MDT

Behind the Scenes JT - Randall Jones LobbyMelanie Rust

2:20pm MDT

Feeling Depression: The productive discomfort of 4.48 Psychosis BUS 244Scott Knowles Metaphor and Symbolic Landscapes in Contemporary American Poetry BUS 243Danielle Dubrasky Singing: (Broadway's Anastasia) In My Dreams MU - Thorley Recital HallJackie Jack • Macall Judd

2:30pm MDT

What I've been up to JT - Randall Jones LobbyRiley Merrill

2:40pm MDT

A review of a Lighting Design BFA student JT - Randall Jones LobbyRuben Pina I'm Going to Die In Southern Maine - Original short script MU - Thorley Recital HallJimmie Brady • Jarren Hancock • Sega Shines Implicit and Explicit Queer Representation in books and movies for children BUS 243Elissa Ridgway The school year should be lenghted BUS 244Elizabeth Roberts • Jordan Mbarga Ondoa

2:50pm MDT

Lauryn Nebeker’s Portfolio JT - Randall Jones LobbyLauryn Nebeker

3:00pm MDT

SUU Experience: From a Costume Technician's View JT - Randall Jones LobbyEmmaLee Coleman Good for the Soul?: Confession in J. M. Coetzee's _Age of Iron_ and Marilynne Robinson's _Gilead_ BUS 243Ryan Siemers Is an Absurd Creation Possible in Popular Culture? BUS 244Nozomi Irei Kylie Nielsen (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMAKylie Nielsen Music acquisition in the womb BUS 246Krystal McCoy Music from One Googol and One MU - Thorley Recital HallLisa Quoresimo Scarlet: Sexual assault awareness through the medium of theatre ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomChad Henwood

3:15pm MDT

Megan Jones (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMAMegan Jones

3:20pm MDT

Changing My Major MU - Thorley Recital HallMaycee Ham Choreographing Spring Awakening ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomEmily Henwood Making "Running for Hope" BUS 246Yuri Bertacchi • Reyce Knutson • Jadon Lamphear • Kurt Meacham • Ansleigh Mikesell • Aaron Peterson • Jon Smith • Emma Sorensen • Colton Warren The Chicken Shack App LIB 201ABenjamin Kirkby Our Duet BUS 244Tyler Brimhall • Hannah Duncan • Courtney Hofland

3:30pm MDT

Raunie Bailey (BFA Exhibition, Graphic Design) MA - SUMARaunie Bailey

3:40pm MDT

American History Presented Through Musical Theatre MU - Thorley Recital HallMackenzie Haslam Windshire Legacy ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomLogan Christensen • Sarah Christensen

3:45pm MDT

"Obfuscation of War", Tristin Lihme (BFA Exhibition, Ceramics/Sculpture) MA - SUMATristin Lihme

4:00pm MDT

KCACTF SDC Directing Fellowship Scene MU - Thorley Recital HallAmanda DeBry

4:30pm MDT

TAD BFA Actor Showcase MU - Thorley Recital HallIan Allred • Nicole Lynn Bailey • Russ Benton • Ben Cano • Kenna Funk • Sara Funk • Maxwell Kunz • Cambry Salway • Carly Salway