November 1, 2024

Bernie G. Yvon Scholarships for 2024-2025

It has been 10 years since the Chicago theater community lost Bernie G. Yvon. While we don’t have him, we do have great memories of the many roles he played on our stages and the Bernie G. Yvon Memorial Fund that makes scholarships each year to aspiring performers.

The Bernie G. Yvon Memorial Fund makes these scholarships in memory of Bernie. To donate to the fund and help to keep it going in order to continue helping young aspiring performers go to www.jaxcf.org/memorial.

To learn more about “triple threat” Bernie and his scholarship visit www.bernieyvon.com.

To date more than 30 aspiring performers have received the  annual scholarships

 

 

 

A trio of promising performing arts students have received the 2024-2025 scholarships.

They are:

Matthew Angelaccio of Lake Zurich Illinois

Attending Rider University

Michael Coppola of Skokie Illinois  Butler University

Emily Halfmann of Marinette Wisconsin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Carthage College

About Bernie G. Yvon (1964-2014)

Bernie was raised in Old Town, Maine and after graduation from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, quickly became a fixture in Chicago-area live theater.  For three decades, he was the consummate song-and-dance man, performing in such classics as Cabaret, Mary Poppins, The Music Man, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  The majority of his career was in Chicago, but he played the role of Harry Houdini in the national tour of Ragtime, and also worked on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.