A Creative Future

Independent dancer, choreographer, and alum Robert Rubama returned this season to his alma mater (George Mason School of Dance) as a stager for Yue Yin's Through the Fracture of Light, which will be performed by current George Mason dancers at the Mason Dance Company Gala Concert, the school's crowning event in March. Rubama has worked with The Metropolitan Opera, Haus of Bambi, Groundworks Dance Theater, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Mark Morris, and Alejandro Cerrudo, and more.

Theater alum Luke Hartwood has loved puppets for as long as he can remember. At 24, he’s indulging his passion as puppet designer/coach and properties designer for Keegan Theatre’s production of Robert Askins’ “Hand to God.” It’s the Tony-nominated comedy about meek Jason who after the death of his father finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry in small town Texas.

Upon graduation, Musical Theater alum Hasan Crawford packed up his clothes in 2 suitcases and bought a one-way ticket to LA! His goal was to dive into television, commercials, and film. The first two years were hard work but his determination eventually paid off and he has since performed in major motion pictures with Netflix, Amazon, and Universal. He's been featured on nationally televised commercials and has continued doing plays and musicals as well as starting to write and direct his own pieces.

Stephanie Cabacoy (MA, Arts Management) is the Director of Marketing at the American Shakespeare Center, in Staunton, VA. She oversees group sales, manages the marketing and sales strategy, and serves as the main point of contact for community partnerships. Stephanie found it hard to find a full-time job due to lack of experience so her undergrad professor suggested she pursue a master’s degree and learn about arts administration. This led her to George Mason's Arts Management Graduate Program, where she explored marketing, programming, development, and finance. The program provided insights from practitioners and administrators, shaping her understanding of effective practices from working professionals in the arts administrative world. Her Arts Management studies led to her first full-time position with the ASC.

Raul Rosado is a Senior Producer/Writer for Prince William County Schools, and was recognized in 2024 by The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with an Emmy award for his video production work with the school division. While working at PWCS, he collaborated as a producer, editor, and videographer on internationally live broadcast educational programs in collaboration with CBS4 Denver, Canal 44 Noticias México, and the USDA Forest Service on topics such as Caves, Grasslands, Freshwater, Woodsy the Owl, and Smoky Bear.

Mason alumna and acclaimed classical soprano Aundi Marie Moore was named by the Sphinx Organization as one of the 2023 recipients of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization, for recognition of extraordinary classical Black and Latinx musicians. She has performed at Carnegie Hall with the Sphinx Music Organization, been on a European tour with Pacific Choral as featured soloist, with the National Philharmonic, IlluminArts Miami, National Chamber Ensemble, and Alabama Symphony. Learn more about Aundi Marie Moore.

Alumna Kat Thompson (BFA Photography, '15), credits School of Art professor, Stephanie Benassi, with helping her get where she is today. It was while she was in Professor Benassi's Intro to Darkroom class that Kat rekindled her interest in photography and ended up switching her major to a BFA in Photography. She is an interdisciplinary Afro-Jamaican American artist based in Virginia, working in photography, textile, sculptural collage, and installation. In 2020, Thompson had a solo exhibition at George Mason called Katherine Thompson: Raw Material, and in 2021, was awarded a Young Alumni Commissioning Project Award from the university's College of Visual and Performing Arts.