Visual & Performing Arts

Anna Lincoln is a senior in the Visual and Performing Arts department. She has a passion for sharing stories of the human condition via song, dance, and comedy. Her love for the stage stretches through and beyond traditional plays towards devised and physical theatre, clowning, and burlesque. Due to her extraordinary acting output over her years at UCCS she has earned the Excellence In Theatre Award. From her memorable roles in Peer Gynt, Romeo and Juliet, The Art of Dining, Hair, Medea and A Flea in Her Ear, Anna has showed a depth and breadth of skills in acting and movement. She is a teacher and an entertainer, and has the focus, dedication and drive that will allow her to go far in this business. We are so proud of her achievements and will miss her greatly. Break a leg, Anna!

Cyrus has been an outstanding student and natural leader for the whole music student body. Centered in violin performance in the VAPA BA Creative Music Performance track, Cyrus has improved dramatically the last few years and performs professionally in the Pikes Peak region. Their capstone research project was a study of physical injury mitigation in instrumentalists, a subject not often addressed among undergraduate music majors who spend hours upon hours every day with their instruments. Their Senior Recital, titled “Folklore Evolutions” was one of the most thoroughly researched and expertly performed in the history of the music program, as well as ripe with several collaborations with their peers. Moreover, as an Anthropology and Music double major their recital interweaved knowledge and practice across both fields with in-depth knowledge and skill. Cyrus helped found the student string quartet, was a member of the Honor’s Scholarship Ensemble and was the VAPA student representative in the VAPA Chair’s Council. Moreover, they were employed as a work study student in the music program for two years, excelling at this position in concert production, marketing, and many other aspects of the music program.