Biography
Naomi Agnew is a recent 2020 graduate from Dartmouth College, where she got her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film and Media studies, with a minor in Theater and Environmental Studies. While in college, she participated in the many different opportunities she had access to, including creating and crewing on multiple short films, working on and directing various theater productions, learning from industry film and theater professionals as her professors and advisors, working as a production assistant under the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of learning production team, and much much more.
With experience in crewing on theater and film sets sets, editing, directing (and a little bit of acting) under her belt, she is currently bravely stepping onward and forwards into the entertainment industry during a pandemic, looking for various remote opportunities for work as she stays safely in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas.
Naomi has the ultimate goal of becoming a director and giving back to her community in a significant way. She likes to define herself as a "space creator" and is always open to new music and show recommendations.
Awards
Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Achievement Awards in the Creative Arts (Film and Media Studies Department) &
Sudler Prize Award - Dartmouth Arts Awards 2020
"The late Samuel R. Rosenthal, lawyer and supporter of the Ravinia Festival in Ravinia, Illinois, endowed these awards in 1959. The award is named after both Samuel Rosenthal’s uncle, Marcus Heiman, and Mr. Rosenthal’s late son, Martin R. Rosenthal ’56, killed tragically in an automobile accident in 1976. Marcus Heiman, 1883-1957, was owner and operator of several midwestern vaudeville theaters and founder of the Orpheum Circuit, the Keith Orpheum Circuit and Radio Keith Orpheum Theater Company (RKO). In the 1930s he founded and became the head of United Booking Office, which booked plays for legitimate theaters throughout the country, and also participated in the production of many plays."
The Susan DeBevoise Wright Award - Dartmouth Arts Awards 2020
"The Susan DeBevoise Wright Fund and income shall be used to help underwrite the costs of an off-campus internship with a professional theater or similar organization for an undergraduate student or graduating senior. The Fund is to be used to recognize student achievement in stage directing, acting, design, stage management, play writing, technical theater, dramaturgy or scholarship; to promote the continuing development of a personal artistic philosophy; and to provide the opportunity to enhance creative skills through immersion in a professional theater environment."