FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2012
Contact:
N. Alexander Miller III
Vice Provost
ARTS NC STATE
alex_miller@ncsu.edu
919‐515‐2835
ARTS NC STATE TO PRESENT 2011‐12 STUDENT PERFORMING ARTS AWARDS
RALEIGH, N.C. – ARTS NC STATE’s presentation of the 2011‐12 Student Performing Arts Awards will
be held on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm in Stewart Theatre at NC State University. The
Performing Arts Awards recognize student achievement in the performing arts at NC State University.
With grant funding provided by the NC State Foundation, Inc., four students were selected to receive
the 2011‐12 Performing Artist and Creative Artist Awards:
2011-12 Performing Artist Awards
Dance: Hayley Dirscherl
Music: Daniel Kim
Theatre: Robert Steinberg
2011-12 Creative Artist Award
Theatre: Michael Seebold
The Performing Artist Award honors student performers in music, dance and theatre. This award is
open to any current full‐time NC State student enrolled in an ARTS NC STATE music, dance or theatre
course and/or involved in an ARTS NC STATE Music Department, Dance Program, or University Theatre
production or performance. The Performing Artist Award is chosen by adjudicating faculty. The winning
performing artists each receive a $500 award and acknowledgement in the following year’s ARTS NC
STATE Season Playbills.
Dance: Hayley Dirscherl
Hayley Dirscherl is a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering from Clearwater, Fl.
Robin Harris, director of the NC State Dance Program, described Hayley Dirscherl, as “a very disciplined
dancer who consistently dances with physical clarity, accurate musicality, and with interesting, complex,
and nuanced intent. She is a smart, thoughtful, and selfless dancer. Hayley is a strong technician, but her
technique is only the foundation for her sophisticated work as a performer. She attends to the details of
the work on every level and in every piece she performs.” In 2011-12, Hayley performed in numerous
works, including fellow student Ashley Wall’s That One Should Always and Three Nurses, and in Robin
Harris’ How To section titled Swimming Skills Thru Dry Land Drills; An Outspoken Dinner Party; and
Resort (Or How I Should Love to Marry).
Music: Daniel Kim
Daniel Kim is majoring in Nuclear Engineering and Biological Engineering and is from Gwang-Ju, South
Korea.
Dr. Thomas Koch, associate director of the Music Department, said, “Daniel, a piano student of NC
State’s Dr. Olga Kleiankina, performed Debussy’s Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”) and
Chopin’s “Revolutionary” Étude Op. 10, No. 12. Daniel demonstrated remarkable musicality and
technical execution. His performance not only was well prepared, but exuded confidence and a
masterful understanding of style.”
Theatre: Robert Steinberg
Robert Steinberg is a marketing major from Mooresville, NC.
“Rob spent his senior year proving to University Theatre audiences that he is truly a man of many
talents,” said John McIlwee, director of University Theatre. “Rob began with a stellar performance as the
cynical reporter in The Philadelphia Story and seemed a perfect fit for this energetic comic role. Then he
turned right around several weeks later and turned in a dramatic essay as the conflicted young doctor in
Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer. To display even greater versatility, Rob next played one of
the leads in University Theatre’s production of RENT. In this musical Rob was simply at his best; acting,
singing, and playing the guitar. It was a controlled, emotional performance that went straight to the
hearts of the audiences and became the ‘glue’ that held the play together.”
The Creative Artist Award recognizes original work in music, dance and theatre created by full‐time
NC State students. Applicants are not required to be enrolled or participate in ARTS NC STATE programs.
A committee of music, dance and theatre faculty reviews submissions made annually of original work in
the fields of music, dance and theatre, and chooses the artists who best exemplify the award(s) for
Creative Artist. The winning creative artists each receive $500 with acknowledgement in the following
year’s ARTS NC STATE playbill. A corresponding $1,000 grant will be given to the appropriate ARTS NC
STATE program or department to assist in producing the selected work in performances by the Music
Department, Dance Program and/or University Theatre in 2012‐2013.
Theatre: Michael Seebold
Michael Seebold is majoring in English (World Literature) and Philosophy and is from Cary, NC.
John McIlwee, director of University Theatre, said, “Michael’s work, The Spyglass Seven, is a one-act
play of intriguing simplicity and strong melodrama that features the ghost of famed poet and author
Edgar Allan Poe returning from the grave at the behest of his muse, Beauty. Wishing to spare him
loneliness in death, Poe is given the task of finding his true ‘soul mate’ from the ghosts of seven
important women in his life. Michael has created a world of romance and mystery that explores the
magnificent words of Poe applied to the situations and emotions of the women he knew and often
loved. He has given us a view of Poe that allows the audience to span the arc of his literary genius
throughout his life and he has done it with an entertaining conceit that has made his play this year’s
Creative Artist Award winner in Theatre.”
ABOUT ARTS NC STATE
ARTS NC STATE is an umbrella organization comprised of the six visual and performing arts programs of
North Carolina State University: Center Stage, The Crafts Center, Dance Program, Gregg Museum of Art
& Design, Music Department and University Theatre. Each year, ARTS NC STATE provides hundreds of
outstanding arts opportunities for both the campus and the greater community. For more information,
see www.ncsu.edu/arts .