Sir Rex Harrison Scholarship Recipient

"Sir Rex Harrison once remarked, 'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you.' Santiago Arenas embodies and embraces exhilaration every time he learns, absorbs and creates with ideas and the possibilities of personal growth. He takes 'ideas' and makes them uniquely his own. His genuine generosity, communal spirit, and love for exploring and developing is infectious to all who have the pleasure of partnering with him as a colleague and as a faculty member. Santiago believes in the idea that within the halls of theatre, stories of identity, of expression, of truth and of individuality is not only to be shared but celebrated as well. As a multidimensional talent whose love for storytelling echos from the way he moves about in space and time, Santiago’s passion for living, for learning, for expressing and for sharing is the very definition of what it not only means to be an artist but a human being as well. The School of Theatre honorably congratulates Santiago on receiving the Sir Rex Harrison Scholarship."

–Yo-EL Cassell, Assistant Professor, Movement