Chicago Student Katie Moss Receives Performing Arts Award

RIVER FOREST, IL (05/14/2010)(readMedia)-- Katie Moss, a resident of Chicago's North Park neighborhood, has received the Sr. Gregory Duffy Performing Arts Award from Dominican University. A recent graduate of Dominican University, Moss received the award during the university's honors convocation on Sunday, May 2.

Moss was also named the Distinguished Senior in Theatre Arts during honors convocation. Each year academic departments at Dominican University nominate a graduating senior for special recognition within a major field. The student selected has demonstrated a distinctive and unusually strong level of academic achievement within the major field.

Just this past year at Dominican, Moss served as the assistant director and dramaturge for The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!). She also played the part of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor's degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master's degrees through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2010 issue of America's Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master's level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of 15 Midwest "Great Schools at a Great Price."