Graduate Student Council

From Fayetteville, North Carolina and spanning across multiple states due to her military family. Eden will be a rising third year graduate student in Production & Project Management within the School of Design & Production. She is a proud Puerto Rican with a BA from Appalachian State University in General Theatre and went on to work as an Actress & Stage Manager for two years before pursuing her MFA. Eden is passionate about advocating for all student voices and experiences, she will be writing her Thesis on ADA needs while diligently preparing for her career outside of UNCSA and into the broader entertainment world. She is happy to be a resource/stepping stone for all students at UNCSA - connecting everyone with beneficial offices around campus and working hard to be a voice that represents the wider graduate population while connecting UNCSA to the Winston-Salem community. In her two years at UNCSA, she has worked on 6 different productions and is moving on to work on 4 in her third year as well as Managing the Production & Project Management office.

Nico McLaurin, a musician who plays with “palpable excitement and a warm, clear tone” (CVNC: The Cultural Voice of North Carolina), is a classically trained trumpet player performing on orchestral, recital, and chamber music stages. In high school, he played professionally with the Triangle Youth Brass Band as a solo cornet in the J. Perry Watson Brass Band. During his undergraduate studies under Jim Ketch, Tim Hudson, and Paul Neebe at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nico had the pleasure of performing as a soloist with the UNC-Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble after winning the Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition. In addition, Nico auditioned and competed with renowned DCI drum corps Carolina Crown for both the ’19-’20 and ’20-’21 seasons. As his music career has grown, Nico strives to influence the trumpet performance landscape by showcasing new and unexplored composers, especially for British brass bands. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts studying under David Dash.