• Abdelmoisen, Iman
  Belly Dance Iconography and Performance: Western and Middle Eastern perspectives
• Augustine, Elanya
  Elementary Education and Theatre Arts (interdisciplinary)
• Chesnut, Donna
  Performer Code: features that define star performance
• Dallas, Barnaby
  Play, Photoplay and Screenplay: dramatic principles from theater to cinema
• Dalton, Dawn
  A historical look at the paparazzi phenomenon of the twentieth century
• Himes, Amy
  Between two mirrors: feminist performance in theory and practice
• Long, Laura (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
  The meaning of the body in performance: cross cultural casting and racial identity
• Nichols, Dona
  The city as dramatic character (interdisciplinary)
• Thigpen, Heidi
  Movement for the masses: An interdisciplinary study of the performance of marching

  1999

• Anderson, Yvette Michelle
  Subjectivity and male stardom heterosexual female desire and male performer bodies
• Smith, Yvette
  Censorship mechanisms in the theatre of the German Democratic Republic 1971-1989
• Taylor, Kelly S. (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
  Shakespeare's verbal and visual relationship : from silent film to Kenneth Branagh

  1998

• Lin, Hsiang-Hsiu
  Modern modes of Chinese dance
• Myrvold, Paul
  Bodily risk in performance: aesthetics of high wire acts
• White, Kathy
  Mirrors and dance culture: modes of response to the dancer's self-image

  1997

• Bergeson, Sherry
  Sexual identity, cultural difference, and film performance
• Black, Anya
  Evaluation of performance values in daytime soap opera
• DeKraker Lang-Ree, Laura Elizabeth
  Technically dramatic
• Wu, Yi-Chun.
  Reappraising the cultural identity of Chinese classical dance

  1996

• Lumley, Glynis E.
  Peter Gabriel's global performance aesthetic
• Asaumi, Wakaba
  Akira Kurasowa's Image of Women in Throne of Blood

1995

• Gotcher, Barbara Ann.
  Authorship and performance: a designer's perspective
• Gutto, Kathleen M.
  Two yet one : defining romance and the courtship ritual through the Astaire and Rogers duet dances of the 1930s
• Lee, Gordon A. (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
  Perceiving Ingmar Bergman's The Silence through I Ching
• Snider, Catherine Dana
  Teaching Broadway : musical theater pedagogy in the classroom
• Zsadanyi-Yale, Amy Elizabeth.
  Grotesque costume in dance performance

1994

• Broda, Joseph
  Jung and The Godfather movies : analyzing film from an archetypal perspective
• Hale, Andrew J.
  How voice operates in popular culture through the performance persona of Muhammad Ali
• Hogg, Tanya Louise.
  Dance aesthetics in music video: 1981-1994
• Montrezza, Gary Lee
  Kwanzaa in the intercultural performance context
• Sung, Bih-Tau
  The development of a movement style incorporating Western modern and traditional Chinese classical dance

1993

• De Wald, Charles
  The ritual dramas of El Teatro Campesino
• George, Susan Andre
  Follow your enthusiasm: the Jim Henson performance aesthetic
• Noah, Sarah
  Historical figures in film : the celluloid Christ
• Popalisky, David J.
  The dancing self exposed : autobiography in dance performance
• Shepard, William R.
  Computer aided scenic design : resistance to CAD and design of Red Noses
• Weinert, Kevin Dean.
  Picturing the theater : recontextualization in pictorial dramatic representation
• Valenti-Hilliard, Beverly
  Propaganda by choice : how propaganda theatre works in the church-sponsored, state-funded, AIDS education play Choices

  1992

• Bergmann, Janis
  Incorporating performance analysis in the training of an actor
• Markoff, Luba
  Dance in the political arena : the Federal Dance Project and Helen Tamiris
• McNelly, Merridee K.
  Defining and implementing performance analysis as a teaching method
• Morse, Donna M.
  An Investigation of the relationship between narrative dance and language arts skills
• Panitchpakdi, Pip (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College level)
  Dusit Thanee : the city of fourth paradise: a political theatre of King Rama VI of Thailand
• Saxon, Belinda
  Borrowing from the East: a study of types of Western theatre adaptations of Chinese opera, Japanese noh, and kabuki

  1991

• Evans, Mary Ann
  Yoruba culture and Brechtian convention : decoding converging traditions in Wole Soyinka's The Road for theatre production
• Buckley, Elisa L.
  Non-traditional casting in deaf-related theatre
• Andersen-Wyman, Dana Victor
  Art in tension with technology : exploring the human dilemmas

  1990

• Ammerman, Candace Elaine
  Meaning in dance and its music : a model based on metaphor
• Barefoot, Sybil
  Sartre--in struggle with god : an examination of selected plays
• De Jong, Tammy
  Marketing and modern dance
• Jewett, Charles
  Jessie
• Munroe, Kristin Ruby
  Proposal for a theatrical avenue to health for promotion controllers: Bulimia Nervosa as a case study
• Neal, Harry.
  Sunday evening in the park
• Ragusano, Nicholas A.
  Implementating the theatre/drama portion of the visual and performing arts framework in the elementary schools of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District
• Tillis, Steve (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
  Towards an aesthetics of the puppet
• Wadsworth, Rita Faye
  Lifetime theater : a model for community theater based on the philosophy of Martin Buber
• Zaro, Gary
  An examination of the similarities between theatre and ice hockey

  1989

• Bradshaw, Kevin Thomas Clifford
  An Analysis of the function of lead types as found in the musicals My Fair Lady and Sweeney Todd
• Carter, Tom
  The Record of a creative project in directing Yours, Anne
• Watkins, Gregory Keith
  A Dramatic application of Susanne Langer's aesthetic symbolism

  1988

• Burdick, Joan Hunt
  The paradox of Jack Cole : innovative choreographer--celebrity unknown
• Hayman, Elizabeth F.
  Team theatre as a behavioral change agent for corporations
• Leon, Maria T.
  The application of expressionist visual effects to modern dance
• Otto, Pamela Walden
  The Tanztheater aesthetic of Pina Bausch
• Trinkle, Jane
  A study of storytellers in the Pacific Region of the United States
• Scozzari, Frank.
  Application of theories of comedy to Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam
• Stone, Karen
  An historical investigation of the choreographic styles of Merce Cunningham and James Waring and their influence on post-modern dance