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Cecilia Huang (黄馨萌Xinmeng Huang)

Semester of Mini-grant
Year of Mini-grant
2022
Disciplines(s)
Grant Description
Anti-Bechdel Test is a stage play that explores and echoes with the audience an empathetic experience of love from the perspective of a woman. During the Fall semester of 2022, I will start to build the concept kits through pictures and videos, which may include but not limit to projection videos that will be part of the play, workshop demos, stage inspirations, concept shootings, headshots of characters, and promotion photos of the play. Although being a stage play, I look forward to making the final product a digitalized version that can be accessed beyond the crowds that are capable to be physically present in theatre.
Original Proposal
Proposal Outcome
Title
Camera Purchase For the shooting of a personal project
Class Year
2024
Disciplines(s)
Arts Award Type
Proposal Outcome
Faculty Advisor
David Dalton
Department
Drama
Grant Description
During this project, my top priority will fall on the aspect of directing and acting. In the past two years at the Drama Department, I greatly focused on those two areas.
Original Proposal
Title
Directing A Play

Cecilia Huang (She, they) is a drama major focusing on acting and theater technology. Growing up experiencing different cultural and social backgrounds, she gets a unique understanding of performance, universal aspects of human emotions, and the importance of arts as a revolution. Theatre had been an indispensable aspect of her life as she spent every weekend of her childhood in theaters and cinemas watching different kinds of performances. Starting in the first year of high school, she dedicated her full passion to the stage, participating in students' plays and community plays. She became the leader of her high school drama club in the last two years of high school and wrote her play in the background of their school life. Moving into college, she learned theatre at a more in-depth level through studying and working in different areas of theater. In her study-abroad school year in Shanghai, she worked part-time as an ASMs in the immersive theatre Sleep No More produced by the international wing of Punchdrunk Company. In her second year as an on-grounds drama major, she developed special interests in theatre scenic technology and worked at the drama department scene shop as a shop assistant starting Spring 2022. She continues to actively participate in acting rules as she declared the drama major and her first rule on-grounds is Charlie in Dinner With The Devil in the 2022 New Works Festival. As a conscious student and artist, Cecilia executes performing arts as a powerful non-violent tool to speak for those unheard, seek justice in inequality, and present subtle empathy among human beings.

2024