Riannon Shea

Over the past two years at Stony Brook, Riannon has become heavily involved in the theatre arts community as a member of the Pocket Theatre club: a 200-person theatre club that produces a full-scale play and a musical each semester, and advocates for the implementation of theatre arts within our STEM-based school with many members being STEM majors themselves, and winner of the "Performance Organization of the Year Award" at the 2026 Student life Awards at Stony Brook.  During the 2025-2026 school year, she served in multiple leadership positions, including Pocket's secretary on the executive board (in charge of booking event and rehearsal spaces, maintaining records, social media, and assisting President and Vice president), assistant director of the fall musical Seussical, and director of the spring musical Into The Woods, leading more than100 people in a collaborative effort to produce a weekend of four sold-out shows. Additionally, Riannon was elected as president of Pocket Theatre for the 2026-2027 school year, becoming the figurehead of leadership for the general body, production teams, and executive board, and working to enhance club success and procedures and operate with the club's best interest in mind. In Spring 2026, she was awarded the Tom Neumiller Scholarship by the Department of English in recognition of her theatrical and leadership achievements over the course of the semester to create "The New Play Festival,"  a short showcase of student-written plays from the EGL 387 class. Riannon is also an employee of the Stony Brook Childcare Center as an admin assistant. She values education, as a member of the Dean's list every semester, and hopes to make a significant contribution to improving courses and programs of education at Stony Brook!