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The Carol Burnett Awards

The UCLA Music Theater Workshop is honored to offer our students the annual Carol Burnett Awards competition. Since 1979, Carol has provided scholarships to students for their excellence and encouragement in the performing arts.

The UCLA Department of Music has many awards given to students for excellence in performance and composition, but there is only one award that has changed a curriculum and become a part of the educational goals for a performance organization. That is the Carol Burnett Award.

The rules seem simple. Give each student five minutes to get up and show what they can do and be judged on their performance by a panel of professionals. Five minutes can be a very long time to fill when you're not exactly sure of what it is you do best. There is the key... the Carol Burnett Award makes students in the Music Theater Workshop focus on whatever it is they do best (if you dance... dance, if you've got a high note... hit it, if you do comedy... find a fun song and be funny).

The students must create a scene for themselves that will "market and package" their talents in the best way possible. As every performer knows, the process of auditioning is the most used and most misunderstood thing in a theatrical career. By creating an award that requires the student to analyze their strengths (and weaknesses), Carol has created a means that gives all the students some "ammo" for when they graduate. The music theater students compete once every year and, even if they don't win some money, they have all won something very valuable... knowledge of what works for them and what doesn't.

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Carol Burnett, Frederica von Stade, and the UCLA Music Theater Workshop

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Winners of the Carol Burnett Award

Alan Anderson spacer Patti Appel spacer Natalie Arazi spacer Paul Attinello
Jennifer Austin spacer Roger Befeler spacer Duane Boutte spacer David Boyd
Chris Carothers spacer Chatchai Charusathiara spacer Bryan Chesters
Julie Connors spacer Joe Cornicelli spacer Dana Cote spacer Cheryl Crandall
Samantha Crisp spacer Eileen Cowan spacer Karen Ann Daniels
Melissa Dingwell spacer Monica Doby spacer Leslie Duval spacer Susan Egan
Kimberly Evans spacer John Ferdenzi spacer Steve Fickinger
Jerry Fischer spacer Fiama Fricano spacer Daniel Friedman
Suzie Goddard spacer Paul Green spacer David Gunderman
Jordan Gurner spacer Gerry Hallahan spacer Lori Halopoff spacer Luck Hari
Theresa Hayes spacer Aaron Henderson spacer Karl Herlinger
Ray Hesselink spacer Keith Hoshal spacer Mitch Kaplan spacer Laura Klein
Scott Maris spacer Susan Mathiowetz spacer Laurie McDermott
Scott Meckling spacer Anthony Milosevic spacer Stephanie Morse
Alan Muraoka spacer Bruce Newberg spacer Christian Nova
Kelley Palmer spacer Valery Pappas spacer Will Pellegrini
Suzanne Pellett spacer Tanino Privitera spacer Michelle Ramos
Trisha Rapier spacer Luis Reyes spacer Kelly Richman spacer Gary Romm
Lynne Rose spacer Michael Rose spacer Glenn Rosenblum
Sarah Jane Runser spacer Teresa Sanchez spacer Jason Schafer
Deborah Schlaff spacer Robert Sella spacer Davia Shukiar spacer David Snow
James Snyder spacer Ed Staudemayer spacer Jennifer Stralla
Martha Swartz spacer Janis Thomas spacer Sarah Uriarte-Berry
Scott Wagner spacer Tonya Wines spacer Craig Woolson
Stefanie Wurzel spacer Lisa Yuen spacer Steve Zee spacer Holly Zell
Jeff Zimmerman spacer and counting...

 

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