CVPA Alumni

A rising talent in Hollywood, Vincent Oppido’s music is “melodically classical yet unafraid to introduce new ideas” (Damon Lindelof). His music has been performed and recorded in Europe and Japan, and across the United States from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood scoring stages of Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures Studios. 

Kayla Clay is an alumna of the Computer Game Design program at College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Mason Music alumna Dr. LaToya Webb (MM Conducting) has recently joined the faculty of the Butler School of Music at UT Austin as the Assistant Director of the Longhorn Band and Assistant Professor of Practice in Conducting!

Isis is a 2021 graduating senior from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She studied at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama where she discovered her love for modern and contemporary dance.

Hope Spears is from West Palm Beach, FL and is currently a senior dance major at George Mason. Hope went to Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts and trained at local studios in South Florida.

Orin Adcox is an entrepreneur and game developer that co-owns a small game design studio located at the Virginia Serious Game Institute in which he creates Serious Games for various clientele within a myriad of subject matters.

Joanne (Shiyun) Tang grew up in Guangzhou, China and finished her undergraduate study in Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Singapore Institute of Management.

Christine Papaniclou is a first generation American with parents from Greece and Hong Kong. She has her MFA in painting and critical theory from Central Saint Martins in London.  

Alicia Rodriguez's first documentary “Cultivation and Community” about urban agriculture in D.C. was selected for the 2018 Best of Film at Mason and screened at Community Stories Film Festival. In 2019,  Alicia was the only undergraduate awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Princess Grace Scholarship Award for her thesis experimental documentary film  "A Diasporic Boricua."