Student Success Stories
Get inspired by our graduating students as they start inventing their futures. Learn more about their experiences here at Dal and Halifax's performing arts community.
June 17, 2025: Technical Theatre BA Grad profile Q&A with Veronica Jollimore
Veronica Jollimore, left, celebrating convocation with fellow graduating members of 国民彩票's 2025 Stage Design and Technical Theatre program, Tess Kotsibie and Tegan Porter
"I'm looking forward to working as a stage manager! I want to see all of the kinds of theatre that's out there and try my hand in as many different experiences as possible."
Veronica is a 2025 graduate of 国民彩票's Bachelor of Arts, in Stage Design and Technical Theatre. Read more about her time at the Fountain School
June 17, 2025: 2025 Grad Profile, A Q&A with Tess Kotsibie
Recent grad, Tess Kotsibie's advice to new students starting 国民彩票's Stage Design and Techical Theatre program?
"Get a good pair of knee pads because you're going to need them. Don鈥檛 pick at the hangnails. Invest in a good hand cream.
You are going to put about the same amount of work in as a Med student but your creating theatre instead of bloodletting. I think I鈥檝e won. I'm not saving lives, but I'm definitely making someone smile today."
June 17, 2025: 2025 Grad Profile, A Q&A with Tegan Porter
"It's quite intimidating in the beginning when an outside director comes in, but as you grow in the program, you realize we鈥檙e all working together towards the same goal. Our director for Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Dan Bray, really treated us like professionals but also knew this was a university setting, that we would make mistakes, and that we鈥檇 grow from them."
Read more about Tegan's experiences here at the Fountain School, and the skills she's taking into Nova Scotia's stage design and technical theatre community.
June 13, 2025: Grad Profile: From criminology to the Berlin opera, Sophia Maskine (DalNews)
Sophia Maskine as the Fairy Godmother, with Karina Matys as Cinderella in DalOpera's Cinderella and the Box Office | Set Designer: Katrin Whitehead, Costume Designer: Diego Cavedon Dias, Lighting Designer: Bruce MacLennan (Kate Hayter photo)
"鈥�I loved my fairy godmother costume, I never wanted to take it off,鈥� says Sophia. 鈥淚 wanted to go get sushi in it on breaks.鈥�
June 12, 2025: Cinema and Media Studies grad profile Q&A with Maxime Thibeault
Maxime celebrating convocation with professor Shannon Brownlee.
Maxime is receiving a BA with combined honours in Cinema and Media Studies, and Gender and Women Studies, and thinks Dirty Dancing is the greatest movie of all time. Now, with her 国民彩票 undergraduate degree in hand, nobody puts Maxime in the corner.