The School of the Arts congratulates all 2011 graduates, and wishes them great success in all future endeavors.
Tony Kushner ('78CC) was the guest speaker at the School of the Arts 2011 Celebration of Graduates on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 pm in Miller Theatre. Video of Guest Speaker Tony Kushner's speech and the entire Celebration of Graduates ceremony is available, please visit here for viewing details.
Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, that received two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama. It was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the Emmy Award-winning screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, the book for the musical Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures.
His screenplay Munich was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and he is working with Spielberg again on Lincoln, a new film about Abraham Lincoln to be released in 2012. Kushner was born in Manhattan and grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, moving back to Manhattan as an undergraduate. He graduated from Columbia College in 1978 with a B.A. in English Literature.
2011 School of the Arts Graduates
Master of Arts
Film Studies
Livia Nathan Bloom
Diane Bache Camina
Zachary James Oleson
Master of Fine Arts
Film
Madelynn Nicole Amalfitano
Francisco Ramon Angones
Gina Michelle Atwater
Geraldine Baron-Visher
Drew Lewis Blatman
Nicole Marie Brending
Andrew William Brotzman
Young H Chun
Hilary Claire Cole
Lina Collado Garcia
Karrie Marie Crouse
Jeanne Donohoe
Matthew Nolte Evans
Morgan Alexandra Faust
Marc David Giacomi
Alexander Emanuel Goldberg
William Duke Greenhill
Antonia Nike Grilikhes-Lasky
Rory James Harry Haines
Russell Dane Harbaugh
Kenneth Jean Hillman
Biljana Ilic
Sarita Khurana
Bora Kim
Juliet Gabriella Lashinsky-Revene
Xiaocao Liu
Andre De Alencar Lyon
Anya Meksin
Jeffrey Kenton Miller
Jesse Ray Millward
Satsuki Okawa
Rammy Lee Park
Rafael Lessa Bulhoes Pedreira
Alexis Rooney Perkins
Lisa Montgomery Perry
April Dawn Richards
Andres Rosende-Novo
Kelvin Arnold Rush
Marcos Jose Sahm
Fritz Aaron Schuelke
Val Scott Sherman
Shariq Ahmad Siddiqui
Moebius McCartney Simmons
Ian Arthur Swanson
Baruch B. Thaler
Luis Rafael Trelles
Isold Uggadottir
Aaron David Walker
John Andrew Wheeler-Rappe
Stephanie Rita Wu
Sara Zandieh
Theatre Arts
Jill Dyan Bernard
Merrie Jane Brackin
Corey A. Bright
Nuah – Ozryel Osman Syed Bukhari
Jennifer Lane Bustance
James Ryan Caldwell
Emily Catherine Copplestone
Shelley Virginia Cox
David Gabriel Fierro
Steven Mark Gaultney
Emily Hannah Gleeson
Nathaniel David Grams
Erik Robert Grathwohl
William Eugene Gressman
Sarah Helgesen
Hannah Jeannette Hessel
Shang-Ho Huang
Otso Patrik Huopaniemi
Camila Andrea Le-Bert
Jesse Gillette Longman
Emily Lang Madison
Whitney Alice Morse
Erin Nicole Moughon
Rebecca Madeline Poccia
Grayson Robert Price Powell
Amanda Lee Raymond
Erica Helene Ruff
Mary Ellen Schneider
Jessica Knowles Smith
Esdras Zenas Toussaint
Jonathan Michael Vandenberg
Samara Smith Weiss
Carin Jean White
Kon Yi
Visual Arts
Inbal Abergil
Maria Antelman
Adam Axel
Guy Ben-Ari
Alexander Hutchinson Carver
Yve Laris Cohen
Matthew Dale Fischer
Nadja Ulrike Frank
Jesse Aran Greenberg
Nora Ruth Griffin
Emily Comly Henretta
Christopher David Jehly
Joseph Michael Lopez
Pooneh Maghazehe
Norbert Clyde Martinez
Teresa Catherine Molis
Nick Paparone
Rory Jackson Parks
Stephanie Geissler Prussin
Christine Fabienne Rebet
Brie Ruais
William Chenault Santen
Francisco Vidal Santos
Julia Beth Sherman
Walter Benjamin Smith
Leah Rachel Wolff
Yeon Joong Yue
Writing
Stephanie Miki Arndt
Alyssa Celine Barrett
Daniel Morgan Bevacqua
Matia Madrona Burnett
Annie Humphrey Cobb
Philip Edward Eil
James Edward Franco
Robyn M. Gertner
Jay James Goldmark
Harvest Henderson
Edward John Hodgkinson
Sean Madigan Hoen
Isankya Nilushi Kodithuwakku
Alexander Paul Landfair
Sara Bailey Nagorski
Anne Theresa Pelletier
