Faculty who created, performed or produced works in the fine and performing arts and architecture, literature, television and film, or digital/software design, July 1, 2023–June 30, 2024. Submitted by faculty, chairs/heads or deans.
Carolyn Barber
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Wind Band, South Dakota All-State Band. 74th Annual All-State Band Performance. T.F. Riggs High School Auditorium, Pierre, SD.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Wind Band, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville High School Honor Band. SIUE Honor Band Festival 2024. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Wind Band, Ohio Music Education Association Districts 4 and 8 High School Honor Band; Cleveland State University Wind Symphony; Cleveland Symphonic Winds. OMEA Districts 4 and 8 Honors Festival. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Wind Band, Wisconsin Concert Band Association Intercollegiate Band. Wisconsin Concert Band Association Conference 2024. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI.
Ian Borden
Fight Director, Theatrical Production. You Can Lead a Horse to Water by Winston Saunders. Shakespeare in Paradise. Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts, Nassau, Bahamas.
Associate Producer, Television or Film Production. Short Film, Turn Over. Entertainment Partners Services Group/Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
Stephen Buhler
Director, Staged Reading of a New Play. Romeo and Her Sister by Jillian Blevins. Angels Theatre Company. Turbine Flats and Edgemont Living, Lincoln, NE.
Narrator, Audiobook of Existing Work. The Wheeling Year by Ted Kooser. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, NE.
Actor, Theatrical Production. The role of F (for Father), Cock by Mike Bartlett. OmniArts Nebraska. Johnny Carson Theater, Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE.
Director, Theatrical Production. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. Flatwater Shakespeare Company. Wyuka Stables, Lincoln, NE.
Michael Burton
Producer, Open Educational Resources. Educational guides for 12th grade students in Media Arts, History, and Screen Writing, Animating History Open Educational Resources. Online, Lincoln, NE.
Artist/Producer, Animated Film. The Diary of Michael Shiner. Omaha Film Festival. Omaha, NE.
Artist/Producer, Animated Film. The Diary of Michael Shiner. Phoenix Film Festival. Scottsdale, AZ.
Joy Castro
Writer, Literary Publication. Fiction, “Noir Story.” SmokeLong Quarterly. Nolensville, TN.
Robert Derr
Visual Artist. Video, Tangled, 2018. Dear 2050: Entangled Forests. Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland.
Peter Eklund
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music Early Evening Concert. American Cemetery, Normandy, France.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music, Mass. Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Full Choral Music Concert. Gothic Cathedral, Bordeaux, France.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music, International Mass. Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Full Choral Music Concert. Prince’s Cathedral, Monaco.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Full Choral Music Concert. Abbey Church, Saint Gallen, Switzerland.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music, Mass. Baroque Saint Michael’s Jesuit Church, Munich, Germany.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Full Choral Music Concert. Abbey Church of Hildegard von Bingen, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Full Choral Music Concert. Saint Jacob’s Church, Rothenburg, Germany.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music Concert. Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Choral Music Concert. La Madeleine Church, Paris, France.
Richard Endacott
Director/Writer/Producer, Television or Film Production. Short Film, Turn Over. T.O. Productions.
Dana Fritz
Artist/Photographer, Limited Edition Artist Book. Photography (handbound scroll), Betula Papyrifera: An Elegy. Copies of the book have been collected by Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Hirsch Library, Houston, TX; Binghamton University Special Collections, Binghamton, NY; and New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York, NY.
Suna Gunther
Director/Performer/Planner/Producer, Group Music Performance. Micro-opera Performance Project, SALT: A Mosaic of Motherhood, micro-operas by Rachel DeVore Fogarty and Forrest Pierce. The SALT Quintet. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Kevin Hanrahan
Performer, Solo Music Performance. Voice, At the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Diana Blom. Music By Women Festival. Columbus, MS.
Performer, Solo Music Performance. Voice, Excerpts from The AIDS Quilt Songbook. World AIDS Day Event. International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE.
Hye-Won Hwang
Performer, Group Dance Performance. The Un-Earthers. Dance Tramp. Dance Tramp’s Terrestrials: Life on the Ground. Music Recital Hall and Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theater, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Andrew Little
Producer, Mixed Media. Podcast, WildAg podcast. https://awesmlab.unl.edu/wildag-podcast/. Lincoln, NE.
Christopher Marks
Musician. Featured Organ Soloist. Holiday Concert. Sioux City Symphony Orchestra Season. Orpheum Theatre, Sioux City, IA.
Musician. Featured Soloist, Organ Recital at Holiday Concert. East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, Kilgore, TX.
Musician, Solo Organ Performance on restored instrument originally built in 1808. National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD.
Amy Millmier Schmidt
Planner/Writer/Producer, Educational Video. From Soil to Swine: How One Nebraska Farmer Found Success in Manure Management. Schmidt Lab Outreach Team. https://youtu.be/DCei_wfjILA.
Producer, Educational Video. Growing Gold: Enhancing Crop Performance Through Proper Soil and Manure Assessment. Schmidt Lab Outreach Team. https://youtu.be/mhTX5brTOtU.
Francisco Souto
Artist, Invited Exhibition. Colored-pencil Drawing, “On Beauty and Displacement.” Venice Biennale. Personal Structures. Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy.
Rafael Untalan
Actor, Theatrical Production. The role of Prospero, The Tempest. Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Bloomington, IL.
Actor, Theatrical Production. The role of Egeon, The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Bloomington, IL.
Actor, Theatrical Production. The role of Henry Condell, The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson. Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Bloomington, IL.
Actor, Theatrical Production. The role of Terry, A Long Time Coming by Weston Gaylord. Ashland New Plays Festival. Ashland, OR.
Director, Theatrical Production. Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill. Nebraska Repertory Theatre. Lincoln, NE.
Intimacy Director, Theatrical Production. Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare. Flatwater Shakespeare Company. Lincoln, NE.
Tyler White
Composer, Music Recording. Symphony for String Orchestra, The Four Elements (Chamber Symphony No. 2). Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Pavel Snajdr, conductor. Symphonic Chronicles, Vol. III. https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6624/#listen. Brno, Czech Republic.
Sandra Williams
Artist, Mixed Media. Public Art/Steel, The Origin of Fire. Seattle Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, WA.