Read current news from faculty, alumni and students of the graduate Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts and Writing programs.
• Faculty Bruce Ornstein Wins at the Indie Horror Film Festival
Vamperifica, co-written and directed by Bruce Ornstein won Best Feature Film, Best Horror Comedy, and Best Cinematography, at the 2012 Indie Horror Film Festival. more ►
• Alumni Selected by Hot Docs World Showcase Program
Hot Docs have selected the feature documentary, "Laura", directed by Fellipe Barbosa (’06) and produced by Karen Stzajnberg (’06), to screen in their World Showcase program. more ►
• Sundance Selects Acquires Rights to Alumni Film
Sundance Selects has acquired North American and Latin American rights to "Gimme the Loot", which is produced by Jamund Washington (’10) and edited by Morgan Faust (’11). more ►
• Alumni Film Selected for the Boston Film Festival
"Sleepwalk With Me", produced by Jacob Jaffke (’10), has been selected as the opening film at the 2012 Boston Film Festival in September 2012. more ►
Feature Narrative:
· "Keep the Lights On", written and directed by Ira Sachs (Adjunct Directing Faculty). Executive Producer, Ali Betil (3rd year Directing). Director’s Assistant, Steven Wilsey (4th year Directing).
· "Hysteria, directed by Tanya Wexler (’95) screens.
· "Francophrenia" (or: "Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is"), written by Ian Olds (’06) and Paul Felten (’04).
Short Narrative:
· "Fireworks", directed and produced by Victor Hugo Duran (2nd year Directing). Written, edited and produced by Kevin McMullin (2nd year Directing). Cinematography, John Wakayama Carey (2nd year Producing). Associate Producers, Hannah Janal (2nd year Producing), Lily Buttons (2nd year Producing), and Brandon Zuck (2nd year Producing).
•Alumni, Current Students and Faculty and the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival more ►
Shorts:
· "High Maintenance", written and directed by Shawn Wines (5th year Directing). Producer, Brigitte Liebowitz (’10).
· Rolling on the Floor Laughing, written and directed by Russ Harbaugh (’11). Director of Photography, Chris Teague (’06). Editor, John Magary (’07).
· "Be Still", directed and co-written by Geoffrey Quan (’08). Cinematography, Rick Siegel (Adjunct Faculty). Assistant Director, Robin Wilby (’10). Casting Director, Jessica Daniels (’07).
· Rolling on the Floor Laughing, written and directed by Russ Harbaugh (’11). Director of Photography, Chris Teague (’06). Editor, John Magary (’07).
· "Be Still", directed and co-written by Geoffrey Quan (’08). Cinematography, Rick Siegel (Adjunct Faculty). Assistant Director, Robin Wilby (’10). Casting Director, Jessica Daniels (’07).
Narrative Feature:
· "Keep the Lights On", written and directed by Faculty Ira Sachs, executive producer Ali Betil (3rd year Directing), director’s assistant Steven Wilsey (4th year Directing).
· "Gimme the Loot", Producer, Jamund Washington (’10). Editor, Morgan Faust (’11).
· "Gimme the Loot", Producer, Jamund Washington (’10). Editor, Morgan Faust (’11).
• Faculty Anne Bogart Publishes New Book Acting Alum at the Incubator Arts Project
Conversations with Anne documents the series of intimate interviews that Professor Anne Bogart has conducted with major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio, for the benefit of live audiences, over the past five years. With Bill T. Jones, Julie Taymor, Paula Vogel, and others, by Theater Community Group. more ►
• Alumni with The Acting Company's National Tour
Adriana Baer (Directing 2010) is Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company's national tour of Julius Caesar and Comedy of Errors at The Guthrie Theater. On tour throughout the US & Canada through May. more ►
• Acting Alum at The Playwrights Horizons
David Wilson Barnes (Acting 1998) in The Big Meal at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater, through April 8. more ►
• Faculty Charles Mee in Portland, Oregon and Baltimore, Maryland
Charles Mee’s play Fire Island runs at the Defunkt Theatre in Portland, Oregon, from March 23 - April 28) more ► and is play Hotel Cassiopeia runs at the Single Carrot Theatre in Baltmore, from March 28 - April 29. more ►
• Directing Alum at Columbia Stages
Ashley Kelly Tata (Directing 2012) directs her thesis The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht at The Riverside Theatre, from March 28 - 31.
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• Acting Alum in Upcoming Feature Films
Rebecca Henderson (Acting 2006) in the upcoming films, Frank the Bastard more ► and Compliance.
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• Alumni Kamrooz Aram Exhibit in Dubai
Kamrooz Aram ('03 SOA) is featured in the show Brute Ornament at the Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, through May 5. more ►
• NIcole Klagsburn Gallery Features Work by Visual Arts Alumna
Alumna Brie Ruais ('11 SOA) exhibits work in the group show Movements in Three, with an opening reception March 28 at 6pm, through May 5. more ►
• Various Small Fires Gallery in Venice Beach, California Holds Alumni Show
Alumni Debo Eilers ('07 SOA) and Kerstin Brätsch ('07 SOA) exhibit their show Kaya 2, a painting performance and live auction, through April 28. more ►
• Alumnus at Thomas Erben Gallery in Chelsea
William Santen ('11 SOA) exhibitswork in a group show That It Is, at Thomas Erben, with an opening reception Thursday March 29 at 6pm, through May 29. more ►
• Alumnus David Brooks at American Contemporary
American Contemporary present an exhibition of new work by David Brooks ('09 SOA), Notes On Structure. Inspired by an essay by Erik Henriksen and Rene Morales describing the behavior of oceanic fish. Opening reception March 29 at 6pm, through April 29. more ►
• Alumna Exhibits Solo Show at Tracy William Ltd, Gallery
Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz ('08 SOA) has a solo show in Chelsea, at Tracy Williams, Ltd. March 22 - April 21; Opening Reception March 22, 6-8 PM. more ►
• Faculty Timothy Donnelly in Columbia Spectator Magazine
Poetry Faculty Timothy Donnelly is interviewed by The Eye, Columbia Spectator Magazine's blog, and asks him about his winning the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book of poetry The Cloud Corporation, and what the "borg" has to do with poetry. more ►
• First Person Plural Featured at Columbia's New York Stories
Founded by Faculty Amy Benson, First Person Plural reading series debuted earlier this month at the Shrine World Music Venue on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and 134th Street. A series devoted to works written in the “we” voice, where Faculty Margo Jefferson and Sam Lipsyte were featured readers. more ►
• Alumni Publish Novels and Read at McSweeney's/Vol. 1 Brooklyn Event
McSweeney's/Vol. 1 Brooklyn presents a reading with alumni and Deputy Editor of The Beilever, Karolina Waclawiak ('10 SOA) from her forthcoming novel How to Get Into Twin Palms (July 2012, Two Dollar Radio) (view the trailer here) and Adam Wilson ('09 SOA) author of the debut novel Flatscreen. April 4, 7 pm at the powerHouse Arena. more ►
• Alumni in The New Yorker
·Alumna Rivka Galchen ('06 SOA) publishes a story, Appreciation in the March 19th issue of The New Yorker; read her interview at The New Yorker's Book Bench: more ►
·Alumna Sophie Cabot Black ('84 SOA) publishes her poem "Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center" in the March 26th issue. more ►
• Faculty Gary Shteyngart at Houston's Inprint Reading Series
Fiction Faculty Gary Shteyngart spoke at Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Monday March 26, 7:30 pm. The Houston Chronicle asks about Super Sad True Love Story. more ► Culture Map Austin talks with Shtyengart about the future of fiction and his students at Columbia's Writing Program. more ►
• LTAC Welcomes Keith Gessler
Literary Translation at Columbia features writer, translator and founding editor of the magazine n+1 Keith Gessen. He is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and the translator of Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich; It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev; and (with Anna Summers) There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. Thursday, March 29 at 8pm, Dodge Hall from 413. A reading with Q&A to follow. more ►
