Five seniors have been awarded the 1999 prize for outstanding accomplishments in the arts by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe and the Harvard Council on the Arts.

The prize winners are Jessica Jackson of Mather House, Lucia Brawley of Eliot House, Mai'a Davis of Currier House, and Colleen McGuinness and Sam Speedie, both of Cabot House.

The awards are given to outstanding students in a variety of artistic fields. This year's recipients are recoginzed for their achievements in theater and dance.

Jessica Jackson was awarded the Doris Cohen Levi Prize, which recognizes a Radcliffe College student "who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater." The award honors the memory of Doris Cohen Levi, Radcliffe '35, and consists of $750 and a certificate.

Jackson was the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), and has acted and directed numerous theatrical productions.

Her musical theater credits include directing Little Shop of Horrors, acting in West Side Story, Godspell, In Trousers, and City of Angels, and designing costumes for The Mikado, In Trousers, and Godspell.

Jackson also developed the 20-page Drama, Theatre, Performance for Undergraduates brochure, which is used by prospective and current students. She worked on the HRDC visiting director project, bringing Tina Packer, founder and director of Shakespeare & Co., to the Loeb Mainstage in a production of Richard III.

Lucia Brawley was awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize, given to the most promising actor at the University. Brawley has appeared in numerous plays at Harvard and Radcliffe, including Richard III, As You Like It, Salomé, and King Lear. She has also performed with the Dublin University Players in Hamletmachine and Suburbia.

Brawley studied dancing at the School of American Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. This fall, she will study at the Yale School of Drama.

The honor comes with a $250 award.

Mai'a Davis is the winner of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, given to a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, theater, dance, or the visual arts.

This prize honors the sum of a student's artistic achievement over a four-year period rather than a single project, and comes with $1,000.

Davis, an honors concentrator in government, has studied ballet in the Radcliffe Dance Program, the Boston Ballet School, the Hong Kong Ballet Company, the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet School, and the Hawaii State Ballet. She has been a principal dancer with the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, performing in several productions, including The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita and Don Quixote.

Colleen McGuinness and Sam Speedie are the winners of the Louise Donovan Award, which recognizes a Harvard- Radcliffe student who has worked behind the scenes in the arts, as director, producer, or accompanist, for example, and contributed the most to the success of a production by creating the opportunity for others to shine.

The $500 award is given in honor of Louise Donovan who, through her distinguished career as a secretary of the College and clerk to the board of trustees at Radcliffe College, was a role model of unselfish, effective support for the College.

McGuinness and Speedie will share the award.

As well as acting, directing, and assisting in a number of productions at Harvard and Radcliffe, McGuinness directed Guys and Dolls, the first undergraduate co-ed production held at the Hasty Pudding Theatre in more than a decade.

She also founded Rockin' the Boat Theatre Company, which will enable future productions to be held in the Hasty Pudding Theatre.

Speedie, a founding member of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, has produced Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Baal, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Speedie is currently directing the film Twelve Nights.