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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Gwynn Cristobal and Kiara Hudlin
Dance, Music & Theatre
Gwynn Cristobal was an Irene Ryan nominee for acting, and received call back interviews with Relative Theatrics (Laramie, WY), Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre (Bay Area), University of Hawaii- Manoa (MA/MFA program), Missoula Children’s Theatre Company (Touring), Fairhaven Summer Repertory (Bellingham, WA), And National Theatre Institute (CT).
Kiara Hudson was an Irene Ryan Region 7 Finalist, was offered an MFA spot at University of Idaho as a Sophomore Undergraduate Educational Theatre, and received call back interviews with National Theatre Institute, Relative Theatrics, Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre, Missoula Children's Theatre and Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre.
Destiny Aguilera, Percival Ferrugia, and Bailie Molsberry
Dance, Music & Theatre
2020 KCACTF (Regional Theatre Festival in Colorado) achievements in technical theatre:
Percival Ferrugia (lighting designer) and Bailie Molsberry (stage manager) were offered jobs at Village Theatre Kidstage in Washington. In addition, Percival got a job offer at Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Wyoming. Bailie was offered jobs at Livermore Shakespeare Festival and Pacific Conservatory Performing Arts in Solvang. Destiny Aguilera was offered a job at Theatre West Summer Rep, in Nebraska and received an award for their Heathers Prop Design from VectorWorks.
Jaiden Clark and Maude Jaeb
Dance, Music & Theatre
Jaiden Clark and Maude Jaeb presented a powerful workshop on the issues for transgender actors in collegiate theatre at the 2020 KCACTF regional theatre festival in Fort Collins, Colorado in February.
Susan Abbey
Dance, Music & Theatre
TFD faculty member, Susan Abbey, is currently acting in Steven Dietz' play, BLOOMSDAY, at Redwood Curtain Theatre in Eureka. It is an Irish time-travel love story blends wit, humor, and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before its past.
Freddy Brewster
Journalism & Mass Communication
Journalism Major Freddy Brewster has been named the recipient of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter. Brewster earned the prestigious honor for a series of stories he wrote for the Lost Coast Outpost. SPJ bestows the award to journalists for “significant contributions to advancing freedom of information and/or expression.”
Brewster joins a list of HSU winners of the award: Professor Marcy Burstiner in 2018, and journalism alumni Thadeus Greenson in 2017 and Matt Drange in 2015 and 2016. Ferndale Enterprise Editor Caroline Titus also took the award in 2016.
Jared D. Larson
Politics
While in Europe for a conference, to give a keynote talk, and research in September 2019, Dr. Larson was interviewed by the Santiago-based news and culture magazine Tempos Novos. The interview, which covers everything from Trump to China, Brexit to Venezuela, and U.S. foreign policy to Catalan succession, was published in November. A summary, in the Galician language, is available online.
https://temposdixital.gal/outros/tempos-novos-no-270-%c2%b7-novembro-20…
Yanting Yu
Music
Yanting Yu, sophomore pianist at HSU Music Department has won first prize at the North State Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, CSU Chico. She competed against students from Northern California schools and Universities. The award has two components, clash prize and playing two concerts with North State Symphony next season 20/21.
James Floss
Communication
James Floss, Emeritus Faculty of the Communication Department has forged a relationship with Radio Universidad de Oaxaca, on the campus or Benito Juarez University to broadcast his documentary series IMMIGRANT VOICES. New shows are being produced now in Oaxaca and soon Tijuana, Mexico.
Rae Robison
Dance, Music & Theatre
Theatre faculty member, Assoc. Professor Rae Robison, costume designed a feature film in Los Angeles over break. Based loosely on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth, feature film "The Deep Ones", directed by Chad Ferrin, will be released nationwide in 2020. Rae was also able to involve recent department graduates Erica Fromdahl, Veronica Brooks, and Brianna Fergus in the project in the wardrobe department.
James Floss
Communication
James Floss, Faculty Emeritus of the Communication Department has reworked his documentary series, Immigrant Voices (recorded in the now shuttered studios of KHSU) into podcasts available from most sources including iTunes. These 3 to 7 minute testimonials can be used in a wide variety of courses. Find them at https://jamesfloss.podbean.com