The College of Arts and Sciences Center for Career Success granted MFA Student Mary Storm a Grad Student Career Accelerator Fund Award for the Summer 2025 cycle. Mary received $2,450 to participate in an intimacy direction workshop series in Denver, CO.

Originally from Curtis, Nebraska, Storm graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in May 2020. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Technical Theatre and a minor in Dance. Currently, Mary is pursuing a Master's of Fine Arts in Dance at The Ohio State University. She began her career studying and teaching various forms of dance including tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, ballet, clogging and tumbling. Through her experiences as a dancer she soon became more interested and familiar with live theatre and now specializes in dance, choreography and directing. 

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