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OFA Prize Winners for the 2000-01

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts announce the winners of the prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts at Harvard for the 2000-01 academic year.

Jim Augustine ’01 was selected to receive the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize of $750 and a certificate. The prize recognizes a Harvard College student "who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater at Harvard" and honors the memory of Doris Cohen Levi, Radcliffe ’35.

A resident of Winthrop House, Augustine has been involved in over fifteen musical theater and dramatic productions at Harvard. His acting credits include Roy Cohn in Angels in America: Millenium Approaches, Dr. Zeller in Clothes for a Summer Hotel and King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar and the Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into the Woods at the Loeb Mainstage, where he also choreographed and directed Sweet Charity.

The Loeb Ex was the venue for his roles as Sylvia in Ruthless, Tito Mirrelli, the "tenor" in Lend Me a Tenor, Smukov/Big Babuska in Slavs! and Victoria Secrkretz in Hasty Pudding Theatricals 150. Augustine has also appeared at Sanders Theatre as Polonius in Hamlet and at the Adams Pool Theatre in The Second Mouth of Mourning. At the Agassiz Theatre he appeared as Pish-Tush in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of The Mikado, choreographed Once On This Island and co-choregraphed Look What a Wonder .

A student of voice, jazz, ballet, and modern dance, Augustine has also performed as a lead male dancer in Perpetual Motion: An Evening of Dance and participated in the administrative side of Harvard theatre, serving as a proctor for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP) as well as president of The Harvard Theatre Advisory Board. This year Augustine was assistant choreographer for the New York City Center ENCORES! series production of Connecticut Yankee.

Technical Director and Adviser at the Office for the Arts Alan Symonds writes, "Jim had a tremendous positive influence on musical theatre and dance at Harvard…He took this post [President of HTAB] with the mission of helping the dance and musical theatre communities work together. He has worked hard to focus the two disparate communities on their common goals. This work builds on his experience helping to open the Pudding to student use (productions of Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes) and on his role with FAP, where he supports both musical theatre and dance with equal vigor and enthusiasm."

The Jonathan Levy Award of $250 for the most promising actor at the College goes to James Carmichael ’01 of Adams House. Carmichael is a gifted and versatile actor who has performed in many plays at Harvard, including the role of Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Troilus in Troilus and Cressida, Cassius in Julius Caesar, The Juror in In the Game of the Law, Frank in Never Swim Alone, Josef Kerner in Hapgood, Richard Roma in Glengarry Glenn Ross, Teach in American Buffalo, Prince Hal in Henry IV, and Alceste in The Misanthrope among others. He choreographed productions of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Loeb Mainstage and Troilus and Cressida at the Loeb Experimental Theatre.

Outside of Harvard, Carmichael has understudied the role of Dennis in the American Repertory Theatre’s production of Loot and performed in the A.R.T. Institute’s production of Mr. Happiness and Other Short Plays at Zero Church Street. Carmichael has also appeared at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in Double Edge Drama productions of The Merchant of Venice, The Zoo Story and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me.

As a dancer, Carmichael has appeared in productions of the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Royal London Ballet and Royal Danish Ballet. He participated in CityStep for three years, and is also a member of Immediate Gratification Players. Performances of Carmichael’s written play Odeon, which he also directed, were given at the Loeb Ex in April and continues through ARTS FIRST 2001 weekend.

Robert Orchard, Director of the Loeb Drama Center, notes "James has talent that extends to multiple areas of theatre practice—as an actor, writer, director, dancer/choreographer, and producer. It’s been wonderful to watch James take full advantage of and contribute so meaningfully to the theatre scene at Harvard."

Brett Egan ‘01 and Elizabeth Waterhouse ’01 are the recipients of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts of $1000. The prize recognizes outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts. The award honors the sum of a student’s artistic achievement over his or her four-year academic career. This year Egan and Waterhouse will share the award.

A resident of Lowell House, Brett Egan has been awarded the prize as recognition of his talent as an actor. Egan has performed in Harvard productions beginning in his freshman year as Edgar in King Lear with The Nora Theatre Company, part of the Freshman Theatre Program.

Audiences at the Agassiz Theatre saw his performances as Tom in The Glass Menagerie and Pentheus in The Bacchae. He also performed the title role in Corioulanus on the Loeb Mainstage. For the Hyperion Theatre Company which he co-found, he directed Much Ado About Nothing and performed the role of Benedick; played Angelo in Measure for Measure and Hamlet in Hamlet at Sanders Theatre.

Robert Kiely, Chair of the Council on the Arts states "From freshman year on, Brett Egan has been one of the most talented, original, energetic, independent actor/directors I have ever known at Harvard. His very soul seems to be in theater."

Egan’s plays Antipodesa and Baal were performed at the Loeb

Experimental theatre. His audio installation Quarter Of will be part of this year’s ARTS FIRST 2001 celebration. Beyond Harvard, Egan has served as an assistant writer and performer in "Echoes of the Jazz Age: The Jazz/Blues Project" at the Kennedy Center and has performed with the American Repertory Theatre and the Los Angeles Repertory.

A resident of Eliot House, Elizabeth Waterhouse has been awarded the prize as recognition of her talent as a dancer/choreographer. Waterhouse is a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company and has performed solo roles in compositions by student choreographers in six different performances.

In addition, Waterhouse has studied extensively with the Office for the Arts Dance Program and with the Marcus Schulkind Dance Company, where she is now an apprentice. She has choreographed several pieces for the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, including "Goldberg Variations," "Duet," and "Lindy Suite," a piece involving lindy hop, ballet, jazz, blues, and tap. "Lindy Suite," as well as "Findings," a piece co-choreographed with Ryuji Yamaguchi ‘03, were selected for the Office for the Arts Dance Program’s concert, A Dancer’s Viewpointe.

Elizabeth Bergmann, Director of the Office for the Arts Dance Program commented on Waterhouse: "Liz has been working with me in choreography and modern dance this year. She is hungry for information about movement and uses it to be as creative and inventive as she can be in her choreography. An avid and fearless mover, her improvisational skills are highly developed, and she is an exquisite performer. I expect her to go as far as she wants to in the dance profession. "

Two new pieces by Waterhouse were performed in April concerts by the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company and Modern Dance Company. After graduation, Waterhouse plans to pursue a MFA degree in dance.

David Salvage ’01 is the recipient of the Louise Donovan Award, which recognizes the Harvard student who has worked behind the scenes in the arts, for example, as director, producer, or accompanist, contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine. The award of $500 is given in honor of Louise Donovan who, through her distinguished career as secretary of Radcliffe College and clerk to the board of trustees of Radcliffe College, was a role model of unselfish, effective support. A resident of Quincy House, Salvage has been a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum for four years. Salvage served as music director and also composed the 1998 Freshman Musical This End Up as well as a drama called Fairchild. Salvage also conceived, vocal directed, conducted, and composed a miniature opera for "VI: An Evening of Student Opera Premieres. "

Salvage currently serves as the undergraduate representative to Harvard Music Department faculty, voicing student concerns at faculty meetings and hosting monthly concentrator discussions. In this capacity, he assisted Professor Robert Levin in passing a number of music concentrator reforms last year. Salvage also serves as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble, managing concerts and securing performers. He is the winner of the 2001 Bach Society Orchestra Composition Competition and will be the vocal co-director of "VI-2: Another Evening of Student Opera Premieres."