Among St. Xavier's many traditions are the outstanding fine arts programs available to students. Students often go on to have very successful careers in the arts after graduation. St. Xavier faculty often impact these students to help foster their artistic gifts. On April 28, St. Xavier celebrated a few of these individuals with an inaugural Fine Arts Hall of Fame event. The inaugural class of inductees were chosen because of their contributions and accomplishments in theater, music, writing, and visual arts. The class includes:

Andy Blankenbuehler '88 - Theatre

Phil DeGreg '72 - Music

Linda (Donahue) Mace - Theatre

Michele Mascari - Theatre

Mary Ann Meyer - Visual Arts

Patrick Osborne '99 - Theatre

David Quammen '66 - Literature

Michael Sparough SJ – Theatre

To view a recording or photos of the event, please visit: www.stxavier.org/finearts/halloffame

Thank you to the inductees and everyone who made the event a huge success!

Pictured left to right: President Tim Reilly '76, Andy Blankenbuehler '88, David Quamen '66, Mary Ann Meyer, Linda (Donahue) Mace, Michele Mascari, Phil DeGreg '72, Patrick Osborne '99 and Fr. Michael Sparough SJ.

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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

The TX Spring production of Singin' In The Rain has become one of the best selling shows in TX history, with multiple performances needing to add chairs in the aisles.

A spectacle tour-de-force, this show made it really rain onstage and had a singing and dancing cast of 50.

This marks Theatre Xavier's return from limited COVID-19 audiences.

FINE ARTS SIGNING DAY

On April 26 The Fine Arts Department hosted the first annual Fine Arts Signing Day. During a lunch-time ceremony the St. X students who have chosen to study the arts (performance, visual or music) were publicly celebrated for their choices. Congratulations!

MUSIC

Aidan Goodwin - Mount St. Joseph

John Sebastian - University of Dayton

Jackson Hurst – UC CCM

Theodore Mechley Jr. – UC CCM

David Horsley - Ohio State

David Rodell - University of South Carolina

THEATRE

Frankie Haas - DePaul

Matthew Powers - University of Cincinnati

Nicholas Feldman – UC CCM

Greg LaLonde - Berkeley (California)

VISUAL

Rory Walsh - UC DAAP

Andrew Humbert - UC DAAP

Sebastian Broadway - Xavier University

Doug Thorne Jr. - Tiffin University

Rodney Adkins - UC DAAP

Jack Wilson - Miami University

FILM/MEDIA PRODUCTION

August Rumpke - UC CCM

ILLUMINATIONS

Illuminations is the annual TX lighting design competition where students get the opportunity to work with a professional sized lighting rig, creating their own lighting shows set to music. This year, students received a master class from professional rock show lighting designer Nina Agelvis (pictured with mask and blue hair). The show ran twice, once for students during lunch and then in the evening for the public. TX students were able to show off their creativity and have loads of fun doing it.

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In preparation for the Fine Arts Hall of Fame event, past posters from TX performances were hung in the halls of the Walter C. Deye SJ Performance Center. The posters will continue to hang in this space to celebrate!

Henry Howland '18 is a recent graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Some of his most recent credits include The Hermit in Young Frankenstein (AADA), Blake in Cornelia Street (The Actor's Studio) and Sidney in Ghost of a Chance (Cincinnati Lab Theatre).

As he looks back on his time at St. Xavier, he credits TX for being the place he realized he could turn his love for theatre into a career.

He is the choreographer of this semester's production of Singin' In The Rain and you can see Henry play Elmer at The Incline Theater's upcoming production of Newsies.

This semester's Singin' In The Rain was led by Theatre Xavier Co-Director, Nathan Gabriel. Mr. Gabriel is an award-winning director who earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Temple University where he currently teaches online classes that promote creative thinking. In addition to teaching he has worked at over a dozen theaters, most notably the Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company of DC, Tony Award-winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Arden Theatre of Philadelphia. Recently, he directed season one of the fiction podcast Small Victories for WGC Productions. Previously, was the Head of Directing at the University of Louisiana.