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Joshua Thorson

RIT welcomes a record number of first-year students today as classes begin in a semester that will look like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new students were welcomed Tuesday afternoon during an online convocation that featured several speakers, livestreamed without an audience from Ingle Auditorium.

It’s been an eventful year for Josh Thorson. The assistant professor of photography created the live video projections for the Broadway production of Oklahoma!, which won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. He also was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design. And he is now the 2019-20 recipient of the Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Josh Thorson created award-nominated projection designs for the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of the classic musical "Oklahoma!"

Forbes mentions Joshua Thorson, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, who was nominated for a 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design for his video work on Oklahoma!