Rutgers University opens its doors this semester to the Class of 2023, an accomplished group of students who are already working to make the world a better place and are poised to begin making their mark at Rutgers.
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University-New Brunswick is welcoming Sydney Shiotani of Los Angeles, who won an ongoing role in the television series Better Things, as well as a voice role in the video game “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader: Make the Grade.”
The daughter of two actors, Shiotani has been performing on one stage or another since playing a starfish in a kindergarten production.
“Mason Gross really stood out to me from all the other schools because they made an extra effort to get to know me as a student and as a person,” Shiotani said. “When you're acting in a smaller-sized class, you need that to be a safe space. Rutgers made it clear they were not only looking for good actors, but good people as well, which I really appreciated.”
Her classmates include Maximillian Lieberman of Freehold Township, who is starting his first year at the Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Honors College. Before college, he launched a Beatles cover band called The Stereotypes, which has raised hundreds of dollars for the Farm Sanctuary movement, a nationwide initiative to protect farm animals from cruelty.
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