Jonathan Deans (Theatre) recently was nominated for a Tony Award for his sound design for Pippin on Broadway.

Stephanie Perez, Brian Merrick, Craig Boydston, and Constanza Castro (all Film) recently were accepted into the American Film Institute (AFI) for fall 2013. This, along with last year's acceptances, makes the UNLV film program the most represented American undergraduate program at AFI. Perez and Merrick will be editing fellows. Boydston will be…

UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye, garnered a second-place award in the College Big Band Division of the prestigious 2013 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, Calif., in April. The UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Uli Geissendoerfer, won third place in the Open Combo Division. UNLV saxophonist…

UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb (Music) and Nathan Tanouye (Music), and the Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Uli Geissendoerfer (Music), have been selected through competitive audition to perform at the 2013 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival at the Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, Calif., in April. The three-day event…

Dana Moran Williams (Theatre) in November designed the scenery for the world premiere of Josh Ravetch's new play, One November Yankee, at the NoHo Arts Center in Los Angeles, starring Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin. Reviews from the major national arts periodicals and newspapers have been very favorable. They include: "... dominates Dana Moran…

Michael Lugering (Theatre) is the author of The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement and Acting Training, which has been republished in a second edition by Routledge Theatre and Performance in the United Kingdom. This second edition has been restructured and reorganized completely and contains 30,000 additional words and numerous new…

Louis Kavouras (Dance) and Katherine Duke, a Hawkins dance representative, performed "Early Floating," a modern dance classic choreographed by famed choreographer Erick Hawkins in 1961, at the Modernism Symposium at UNLV's Judy Bayley Theatre. The duo also spoke onstage with scholars and professors from around the world. They were the only…

A. J. Merlino (Music) has been accepted to play at the International Percussion Festival in Cordoba, Argentina. One of the biggest festivals of its kind in South America, the event includes a large number of diverse artists and has a rigorous application process. He will be performing new and standard repertoire. Those percussion works are…

Thomas Leslie (Music) recently was elected president of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA), the nation's most prestigious band association. Founded in 1929 by Edwin Franco Goldman, the ABA elected John Philip Sousa as its first honorary president. Leslie serves as the 76th president of this historical group. Presidency of the ABA is…

The UNLV Downtown Design Center architecture studio led by Ken McCown (Architecture) and Carly Mossman set up a park in a parking space near the Regional Justice Center as part of an international initiative called Park(ing) Day. There they solicited input from a broad spectrum of people on a proposal for a town square in downtown Las Vegas.…

David Schmoeller (Film) received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in World Cinema. The event took place at the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the largest genre film festival in South America, and featured the world premiere of his 10th feature film Little Monsters (2012). The film was shot on location in Las Vegas…

Dana Moran Williams (Theatre) recently designed Rainbow Connections in Los Angeles, a New Works Festival celebrating the work of LGBTQ artists. The three-cycle, nine-week program was sponsored by the Knightsbridge Theatre and funded in part by the National American Shakespeare Company with a grant from the office of cultural diversity from the…