Meet Our Lucky 2025 Scholarship Recipient!
The Dio and our non-profit board of directors, The Muses of Dionysus, wish to congratulate the 2025 recipient of the Mary Jo Del Vero Memorial Scholarship, Jack Oelslager! We thank our fantastic Dio Donors for making this scholarship possible through their charitable giving.
Jack Oelslager is a recently graduated senior from Brighton High School who has been involved in high school and community theater throughout his life. Jack got his start in theater with the Harland Encore Kids community theater when he was in sixth grade. From there, he went on to participate in musicals at Scranton Middle School and Brighton High School. His most recent and notable roles include Nicely Nicely Johnson in Brighton Musical Theater’s Guys & Dolls, as well as Dmitri in Brighton Musical Theater’s Anastasia, both of which he was nominated as an “outstanding actor” in the Sutton Foster Awards for high school musical theater.
Outside of the theater, Jack has been a member of Brighton Choirs, A Cappella, and a voice student of Camille Mikat of the Mikat Music Studios for four years. Next year, Jack will study Voice & Opera at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University under the advisement and teaching of Professor Norman Reinhardt. He would like to thank his friends, family, and teachers for all of their support, as well as the Muses of Dionysus for the wonderful scholarship opportunity and their support of young artists in the community!
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The Mary Jo Del Vero Memorial Scholarship is lovingly named for educator and Arts advocate, Mary Jo Del Vero, who left us unexpectedly and far too soon in 2020. She was a talented performer, appearing in productions across Livingston County, including at The Dio where she sang in many fundraising concerts that made our work possible, and where she originated the role of Betty Sue Franklin in our original Christmas musical, Home for the Holidays. MJ was a dear friend to Dio co-founders, Steve DeBruyne and Matt Tomich, as well as to the President of The Muses of Dionysus, Taylor Epp. She is greatly missed.
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