Theatre/Dance Scholarships
Endowed Scholarship and Fund
Theatre/Dance Design Scholarship
This scholarship granted to a student majoring in the Theatre/Dance Design program who displays outstanding promise in any area of theatre design.
Wynett Barnett Scholarship Endowment for Theatre Students
Created in memory of Wynett Barnett, these scholarships support Theatre/Dance students showing outstanding ability in performance, technical ability, costuming, and dance.
Gene and Anne Wilson Endowed Theatre Scholarship
This scholarship provides support to students with strong potential for a successful career in theater, who have demonstrated substantive work in all aspects of theatre department production.
Fannie Hicklin Scholarship Endowment for Theatre Education
This scholarship is awarded annually to junior/senior theatre education students that are well rounded in all areas of theatre, including performance and technical work.
Margo & Scott Trentadue Theatre Scholarship
This award presented to a theatre major based on excellent academic and outstanding performance and/or service in their activities.
Fred Sederholm Writing Award
The award is available to any student registered for a theatre course for credit during the academic year. Any types of revised or finished writing which represents a student’s best critical and/or creative writing skill will be considered. Examples might include research papers, essays, expository writing, criticism or original creative writing including play-writing.
Theatre/Dance Technical Scholarship
The award will be given to a continuing freshman, sophomore or junior who displays outstanding undergraduate-level work in the technical areas of sets, props, costumes, lighting or sound for department and/or production work while attending UW-Whitewater.
Carolyn and John Bodensteiner Scholarship
This $200.00 award will be given to a sophomore theatre major who has demonstrated outstanding theatrical potential and a commitment to academic excellence with a 3.0 grade point average or above.
Richard Elkow Award
This scholarship is awarded to incoming freshman majoring in theatre with a technical emphasis.
Ken Lempert Directing Award
This scholarship is granted to student who have directed or assistant directed at least one theatre production and show creativity in his/her directing work.
Fero Management Award
This award is given to theatre major/minors involved in the theatre management and stage management programs.
McNally Stage Management Award
This award is given to a student who has successfully stage-managed or assistant stage-managed a main-stage theatre/dance department production within the past 12 months.
Matthew Schliesman Scholarship for Artistic Accomplishment
This scholarship is presented to students who have on-going significant and valued artistic accomplishments in the areas of performance, directing, technical and design, or theatre management.
Theatre/Dance Department Scholarship
Offered by the Theatre/Dance Department, this scholarship is awarded to talented and academically gifted students in the department.
Theatre/Dance Department Fund
This fund supports special projects in the Theatre/Dance Department.