Our Stories

As a child, Brittany Fayle ’17 loved to perform, singing, acting and dancing throughout elementary, middle and high school. Today Fayle shares her love of the theatre with the next generation of actors as a teacher for Peaceful Schools, an organization that uses enrichment programs in disciplines such as art and science to model communication and problem-solving skills for its students

Rhiannon (Williams) Annin ’13 is taking what she learned at Le Moyne about theatre - and giving back - to help adults with disabilities create their own works of art. Annin works for the nonprofit Artists' Exchange in Cranston, R.I., where a typical day may find her students doing tongue twisters, meditating or even leaning about Shakespeare's writing form.

Zihao Xu ’18 spent much of the winter break on the streets of his hometown, Chengdu, China, camera in his hand, searching for what he calls “the decisive moment,” that is, a moment that nearly begs to be preserved. Over the course of three weeks, he captured hundreds of them, which he shared in an exhibit titled "Through the Glass."

When Director of Theatre Matt Chiorini was asked to put together an “American take” on William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice two years ago, he was stumped. He wondered if there was anything to be added to Merchant, anything that had not already been explored. Then he stumbled upon the story of classical actor Orson Welles’ numerous failed attempts to portray the play’s antagonist – Shylock. It was a “small, mysterious footnote in (Welles’) vast body of work” that Chiorini was eager to explore...

Stefon Greene ’14 is, at his core, a storyteller. Since his days as a student at Le Moyne, he has been moved by the power of a story to teach, to inspire, and to entertain in ways that other mediums simply cannot. The story informs people. It binds them to one another. To that end, Greene has embraced storytelling as a way to shape public discourse and give back to the community. A communication major on the Heights, Greene traveled with Professor of Communication Michael Streissguth and se...

Professor of Communication and Film Studies Michael Streissguth has been following the rock-blues band The Nighthawks for a long time, having first discovered the group while growing up outside of Washington, D.C. Today he calls the Hawks “the hardest working band in America.” Its members, now in their 60s, continue to tour across the country, particularly the Northeast. Given the Nighthawks’ longevity, Streissguth was surprised to discover that the band had never been the subject of a documenta...

Irene Liu, Ph.D., is an associate professor of philosophy with a passion for photography. She has discovered, though, that the two are not mutually exclusive. A virtue ethicist, Liu recently completed a photo exhibit titled The Thornden Park Bulldogs. She followed the members of the Syracuse-based youth football team as they pursued wins and learned about the value of sportsmanship, to which many other virtues, including generosity, resilience, fairness, and grace, are connected. Liu learne...