The Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts is awarded annually to two graduating Seniors who, in the opinion of the Faculty, have demonstrated excellence or the highest standards of proficiency in performance or execution, and in the field of composition in one of the following general areas: architecture and design, creative writing, dance, film and video, music, theater, painting, sculpture, photography, and digital arts.
2022
Chiara (Chia) Amisola, Saybrook College
Chiara Amisola, a Computing and the Arts Major on the Visual Art track, graduates cum laude and with distinction.
An artist who uses technology to question and contemplate the nature of the virtual world, Chia makes work that treats digital space like a tactile medium, shaping it into something at once foreign and familiar, and that requires audiences, particularly young ones, to acknowledge their complex relationships with their online lives.
Using computer applications, games within games, and social worlds mapped onto real geography, Chia exposes the pervasive, powerful forces of the digital world — both positive and negative — and how they have become some of the most important, most deeply felt aspects of our lives. Much of this work has already made an impact around the world through Chia’s non-profit, Developh.
Alex Whittington, Pierson College
Alex Whittington, a Music major graduating cum laude and with distinction, is a multi-dimensional performer whose work in the theater and concert hall brings new perspectives to works that cross cultural and social boundaries.
Alex is a singer, conductor, director, and choreographer who breathes life into music old and new, drawing on their experience in marginalized spaces of Puerto Rican, queer identity as well as a solid grounding in received traditions of music as art. With a range that spans Greek tragedy to Broadway, Alex has created performances that are as technologically accomplished as they are artistically motivated, drawing equally on multi-disciplinary technical expertise and personal journey and demonstrating a serious belief in the relevance and importance of the performing arts in today’s society.
2021
Sydney Holmes, Benjamin Franklin College
Lisl Wangermann, Branford College
2020
Sadie Cornette Cook, Silliman College
Farrah Rothman, Saybrook College
2019
Eren Orbey, Jonathan Edwards College
Alexis “a.k.” Payne, Berkeley College
2018
Mary Chandler Gwin, Saybrook College
2017
Emily Switzer, Ezra Stiles College
Christina Chi Zhang, Saybrook College
2016
Rebecca Brudner, Branford College
Monica Hannush, Pierson College
2015
Eric Sirakian, Jonathan Edwards College
Ruby Rae Spiegel, Ezra Stiles College
2014
Jun Luke Foster, Davenport College
Molly Elise Houlahan, Calhoun College
2013
Matthew Claudel, Branford College
Bonnie Angelica Antosh, Pierson College
2012
2011
Grace Needlman, Berkeley College
2010
2009
Lauren Libaw, Davenport College
Robert Tucker Rae-Grant, Saybrook College
2008
Felicia Ricci, Saybrook College
2007
Timothy Hall Andres, Timothy Dwight College
2006
Satya Sorab Bhabha, Berkeley College
Carl D’Apolito-Dworkin, Timothy Dwight College
2005
Charlotte Dobbs, Timothy Dwight College
2004
Kathryn Whalen, Branford College
2003
Kimberly Akemi DeQuattro, Branford College
2002
Tucker Smith Capps, Jonathan Edwards College
2001
Matthew Todd Jordan, Saybrook College
David Valdez, Davenport College
2000
Sophie Sing Shao, Davenport College
1999
Jason Alexander Freeman, Berkeley College
1998
Danny Boyd Beaty, Ezra Stiles College
1997
Hilary James Koob-Sassen, Davenport College
1996
Jonathan P. Andrews, Silliman College
Sara Ellen Wolverson, Silliman College
1995
Christina Crawford, Timothy Dwight College
1994
Katherine Elizabeth Davies, Morse College
Haldan Dai Tung Martinson, Jonathan Edwards College
1993
Karin Terese Fong, Calhoun College
Alexandra Sari Adrienne Gruber, Saybrook College
1992
Victoria Kostadinova, Pierson College
1991
Annette Jolles, Calhoun College
1990
Katie Lansdale, Silliman College
1989
Nina Levy, Trumbull College
1988
Alexander Platt, Berkeley College
1987
Michael Wetstone, Ezra Stiles College
1986
Daniel Grabois, Berkeley College
1985
Pamela Dick, Jonathan Edwards College
1984
Tina Landau, Pierson College
1983
Jennie Livingston, Jonathan Edwards College
1982
Gerald Cohen, Jonathan Edwards College
1981
June Wachtler, Trumbull College