Jessica Miller Tomlinson/Photo: Cheryl Mann
The Dance Center of Columbia College announced today that choreographer Jessica Miller Tomlinson is the winner of the first Chicago edition of The A.W.A.R.D Show! and took home the $10, 000 first-place prize. Tomlinson is a member of Thodos Dance Chicago.
Runners-up Allyson Esposito and Megan Schneeberger (The Space/Movement Project) and Julia Rhoads (Lucky Plush Productions) each collected $1,000.
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