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Announcing
the 2024
School of the Arts
Alumni Award Recipients
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The School of the Arts honors the achievements of a select group of alumni who have demonstrated excellence in their respective disciplines. These arts professionals have set a standard for current students who will follow in their footsteps.
Please help me congratulate our illustrious alumni! - Elizabeth Meyer-Bernstein, Dean
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Alumni Award for Achievement
Rosalind Cauthen '00
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Roz Cauthen was named Executive Director of the Baltimore School for the Arts in July 2021. She has been at BSA since 2016, beginning as the head of Theatre Department. Part of the Baltimore Public School system, BSA ranks in the nation’s top five performing arts high schools. Students spend half the day in academic classes and the other half in pre-professional training in dance, film, music, stage design and production, theatre and visual arts.
Roz is deeply committed to equity and access, and she has successfully led the equity work at BSA. She began the work to develop an Equity Action Plan to take the next step of implementing the equity initiatives at the school, to refine processes, policies, and programs that support an inclusive learning environment.
Focused on creating innovative programming, and continuing the excellence in arts and academics that the school is known for, Roz also gravitated toward promoting healing and restoration in the classrooms, studios, and on stages.
Roz came to BSA from Center Stage, where she served as the Director of Community Programs. She is a graduate of the M.F.A in theatre program at Towson University, where she has taught courses as adjunct faculty and directed their Theatre Arts Mainstage productions.
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Roz is a 2000 graduate of the
Department of Theatre
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Alumni Award for Service
Janine McCabe '98
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Janine McCabe ‘98 graduated from the College of Charleston with a major in Theatre and a concentration in Costume Design. Growing up in New Jersey, Janine was a dancer, clothing maker, and excelled in math and physics. Her college journey started as an Engineering major at Drexel University in Philadelphia, but when she transferred to the College of Charleston her sophomore year, she ended up in David Goss’s Introduction to Theatre class. During a tour of the Department of Theatre’s spaces which included the costume shop, she learned that students could be hired in the shop to sew. First in her family to go to a four-year institution and paying her way, Janine approached the professor of costume design, Mary Holloway Jollensten, for a job. Mary opened up a whole new world for Janine that combined a multitude of her interests and after graduating from CofC, she went on to pursue her MFA in Costume Design from the University of Virginia.
After her first professional design post graduate school designing Romeo & Juliet for Shakespeare in the Park in Las Vegas, she headed to NYC to pursue a career in costumes. Her time there led to opportunities on Broadway, where she worked with Tony Award-winning designer Martin Pakledinaz and Tony Award-nominated designer Gregory Gale. Janine’s Broadway credits include A Year with Frog and Toad, The Look of Love, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie (National Tours), and The Wedding Singer. In addition, Janine was able to work with Pakeldinaz on the London production of Kiss Me, Kate as well as in Dance and Opera with companies including Mark Morris, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Opera, Paris Opera, Washington Opera, Opera Theatre of ST. Louis, and Seattle Opera. While managing the busy Broadway assistant life in NYC Janine was hired as the costume designer for multiple theatres and groups including the NY Musical Theatre Festival, The Julliard School, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Circle in the Square, The Unbound Theatre, The Transport Group, Lenape Regional PAC, NY Fringe Festival and others.
After several years in New York, Janine was asked to return to CofC for a 9-month Visiting Assistant Professor of Costume position where she found a passion for teaching that then led to her accepting a tenure track position in 2007. Since her return to the College, she has led the Costume Design and Technology concentration within the Theatre program and teaches courses in design, construction, drawing, rendering, painting, hair and makeup, patterning, and fashion history, as well as occasionally teaching in the First Year Experience program. Janine has designed over 30 productions for the department and mentors student costume designers for all theatre and dance productions in the department’s season. She served as department chair from 2014-2023 and has been a driving force behind the Department of Theatre and Dance’s de facto theatre company, CofC Stages. During that time she has helped grow the dance major and support more student interest in Musical Theatre through new courses, regularizing a musical in the season and helping develop the new Musical Theatre Certificate Program.
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Janine is a 1998 graduate of the
Department of Theatre
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Janine has been a strong advocate for the department, faculty, staff and students and is particularly proud of keeping CofC Stages going with full seasons even during Covid to continue supporting student learning and opportunities. Despite stepping down as chair after over nine years to spend more quality time with her son, Charlie, Janine remains proud to serve as CofC Stages’ Artistic Director and head of design for the Department of Theatre and Dance. As Artistic Director Janine has worked to diversify the season programming in voices, perspectives and staffing. In addition, she has led the artistic direction of Stelle di Domani for Piccolo Spoleto for a number of years which aims to produce work highlighting alumni and current faculty, staff and students.
Janine occasionally designs at Charleston Stage and is a resident designer at PURE Theatre where she has designed for 17 years. Her work with these local theatre companies allows the opportunity to connect students to the professional theatre scene in Charleston. Similarly, she regularly designs for Annex Dance Company and Charleston Opera Theatre where she is able to connect former and current students and collaborate with other SOTA colleagues and professionals from South Carolina and around the country. During her time as a roster faculty she designed in multiple seasons at Flat Rock Playhouse in NC and for productions at Trustus Theatre in Columbia. Janine returns for a second season this year as the Spoleto Festival USA Costume Supervisor managing needs for the productions and artists headed to Charleston.
Janine is passionate about helping students develop undergraduate research projects related to costuming, as well as aiding students interested in fashion design and understanding the intersection of costume and fashion. Many of Janine’s students move on to professional work in costume construction, costume design, and fashion, or continue their studies in graduate programs. Helping students develop a strong work ethic, problem-solving skills, creativity, and nurturing their passions is at the heart of her teaching and mentorship. Her students have won awards at SETC and KCACTF and have been recognized at ACDA. Her own recent design of Violet for the 2022-2023 CofC Stages’ Season was recognized last year for Distinguished Achievement in Costume Design for the KCACTF National Awards along with many other recognitions the production received. In June, Janine will be recognized at the SCTA annual Gala with the inaugural Excellence in Theatre Design and Technology award, given in recognition for the body of work and contribution to technical work and design of theatre in South Carolina.
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Alumni Award for Philanthropy
Yvonne Evans '58
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Yvonne Evans was born in New York but her family quickly moved back to her father’s hometown of Charleston when she was a baby. Yvonne has lived her entire life in the Harleston Village neighborhood, growing up on Queen Street, attending the Cathedral School, Bishop England High School, and the College of Charleston in the 1950s. After marrying and starting a family, Yvonne returned to the College of Charleston for a degree in Business Administration and officially graduated from the College in the mid-70s. Yvonne served as a Charleston City Council member from 1990-2010 and accomplished so much for her city during her twenty year service. During her time on city council, she worked on issues related to tourism, the arts, and city planning initiatives.
Yvonne is the co-founder of "The Sound of Charleston," Charleston's longest running musical production that traces Charleston's rich musical heritage from spirituals to Gershwin.
Yvonne also served as chair of the city’s Planning Commission and was honored in 2013 by the Charleston Parks Conservancy with the Yvonne D. Evans River Walk (Ashley River Walk). She has served as President of the League of Women Voters and the University Exchange Club, the Alumni Association of the College of Charleston and the Cougar Club. She is a graduate of Leadership South Carolina. She was on the Board of Charleston Animal Society, CARTA, and served as President of the School of the Arts Council from 2018-2022.
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Currently she is a member of the Board of the Harleston Village Neighborhood Association, Harleston Neighbor to Neighbor, the School of the Arts Council, the Salvation Army, and the Riley (Joe) Institute at the College of Charleston. | |
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Young Alumni Award
Demetrius Doctor '14
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Hailing from North Charleston, SC, Demetrius Doctor's musical journey began at age 5 as a self-taught pianist in church. The Gullah-Geechee influence of the Black church in the Lowcountry is the foundation on which all his musicality is built. Demetrius attended The Charleston County School of Arts, where he received numerous musical awards and recognitions for his work in piano and tuba, including the Quincy Jones Award and the Rivers Award—the highest arts honor given by the school. He went on to receive his B.A. in Music from the College of Charleston and later received his M.A. in Music Technology from Coastal Carolina University.
His musical journey has blessed him to share the stage with major Gospel artists like Tye Tribbett, Jonathan Nelson, and to even produce the last solo album of legendary singer, Duranice Pace. He has also been privileged to perform and record with jazz musicians like Fred Wesley, Chris Potter, Chico Pinheiro, and Freddy Cole. He's also toured Italy, Spain, Croatia, and many cities in the United States, playing in legendary venues like Carnegie Hall, Ryman Auditorium, and Auditorium Parco della Musica.
Demetrius has produced several songs and albums in both the Gospel and Jazz genres, and has released two albums as primary artist, 2015’s “Home” and 2020’s “Tales of a Sideman." Demetrius currently serves as Minister of Music at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in N. Charleston, SC, and Assistant Professor of Music Industry at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. He can be found playing in multiple venues and settings in and throughout the Charleston Area. Outside of music, Demetrius enjoys watching sports and spending time with his wife, Corinthian, their daughter, Alani, and their twin boys, Weston and Dawson.
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Demetrius is a 2014 graduate of the
Department of Music
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In 2011, the School of the Arts established an Alumni Awards program in order to honor those former students who have made significant progress in their careers, the arts or have given of themselves as donors and/or volunteers. Find a full list of past winners here. | |
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The current class of alumni winners will be celebrated on Friday, May 3 during
Spring Alumni Weekend at the College of Charleston.
Albert Simons Center for the Arts
54 St. Philip Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Ceremony at 5:30pm
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