2020: Lauren Bone Noble (Theatre Arts)
Lauren Bone Noble (Theatre Arts) is the 2020 Faculty Mentor Awardee. According to Jack Wade, who nominated her for this award, Ms. Bone Noble spends numerous hours inside and outside the classroom mentoring students in acting, improvisation and stage movement for SUNY New Paltz main-stage productions. She has a long and successful record of individual mentorship of Theatre Arts majors. She has directed a gender-reversed Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Every 28 Hours Plays and The Servant of Two Masters. Over the past summer, she mentored Natalie Houle, a senior Theatre Arts sound design major in the creation of a new, original sound design for her own play Fury, premiering Ms. Houle’s design at the Phoenicia Fringe Festival and then again at Denizen in the fall where Ms. Noble’s play received enthusiastic audiences.
