Read current news from faculty, alumni and students of the graduate Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts and Writing programs.
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• Faculty Annette Insdorf Publishes in The Huffington Post
Annette Insdorf has recently had two articles published in The Huffington Post; one on Madonna’s W.E. and the other on Agneiska Holland’s Oscar nominated film In Darkness.
• Filmmaker Magazine Features Faculty Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan's article "DON’T DO THIS! 12 Mistakes first-time filmmakers often make (and how to avoid them)", in the Winter 2012/Sundance edition of Filmmaker Magazine.
• Faculty Tom Kalin at Berlinale
In recognition of its twentieth anniversary, Tom Kalin's first feature Swoon will play as part of Forum, the “most daring section of the Berlinale,” February 15th & 16th. Kalin will be in attendance at the festival. more ►
• Alumni Film to Premier at International Film Festival
Green Plastic Sandals will have its world premiere at the 2012 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film is directed by Stephanie Wu (’11) and Andres Rosende (’11), written by Wu, and produced by Gerry Kim (’11). more ►
• SXSW Features Student Film
Little Dad, written and directed by Noah Pritzker (2nd year Directing) has been selected to screen in the Narrative Shorts section of the SXSW film festival. The film was edited by Adjunct Jennifer Lilly. To view the trailer, please visit: more ►
• Faculty Brian Kulick at the Classic Stage Company
Brian Kulick directs Galileo, written by Bertholt Brecht and starring F. Murray Abraham, at the Classic Stage Company, through March 11, 2012. more ►
• Student Featured in The Brooklyn Rail
Current student Julia May Jonas ('12) and her production company Nellie Tinder, is featured in The Brooklyn Rail discussing her new play, Evelyn, running February 22 – March 10, at The Bushwick Starr. more ►
• Playwrighting Student at the Outworks Festival
Second-year Playwriting student Christina Quintana ('13) is featured in this year's Outworks Festival with The Gay Play, directed Garrett Guilbeau . more ►
• Acting Alum at the Triskelion Arts Center
David Fierro (Acting '11) featured in Follow the Leader at The Zoo Theatre at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through February 25. more ►
• Art Talk with Faculty Kara Walker on the National Endowment for the Arts Blog
Faculty Kara Walker is featured on the National Endownment for the Arts blog, discussing her about practices, views and thoughts about art. more ►
• Alum Christy Gast at Art Salon
Christy Gast ('04) was featured at a panel discussion presented by Art Salon at Art Basel 2011 in Miami. more ►
• The Cartographer's Conundrum by Faculty Sanford Biggers at MASS MoCA
Biggers' multi-disciplinary solo show opens February 4th, with an opening reception from 5:30 - 7:30 PM more ►
• Faculty Jon Kessler's solo show at Salon 94 Opens February 2nd
Salon 94 Bowery presents Jon Kessler’s The Blue Period (2007/2011), an immersive installation featuring kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures. more ►
Days of Yore, an online journal that interviews artists about the years before they had money, fame or a roadmap to success speaks with Writing Alum Karen Russell ('06 SOA) whose latest novel Swamplandia! hit the NYT Top Ten list of 2011 among others, and is to air as an HBO series. Russell talks about family inspiration and her former job at a veterinary clinic. more ►
• Writing Alum to Publish First Novel
Fiction Alum Adam Wilson to publish his first novel Flatscreen, read the review at Publisher's Weekly, and watch the book trailer here: more ►
• Faculty Margo Jefferson's Essay in the New Book Black Cool
Margo Jefferson publishes her essay "Eccentricity" in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, and will be featured at an book event at McNally Jackson, Wednesday, Feb 15, 7pm. more ►
• Mother, Stranger by Faculty Cris Beam at The Avatist
The Atavist presents the event: A Mother's Love: Memoirs in the Digital Age and features a reading and discussion by Faculty Cris Beam about her memoir Mother, Stranger. At the Melville House, Tuesday, Feb 14, 6:30pm. more ►
• Alumni Reading
Alumni Eleni Gage reads from her novel Other Waters on February 22, 7pm, Barnes & Noble at 150 East 86th Street. more ►
