Theatre Arts Alumni
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('95SOA and '94SOA) -
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are an award-winning documentarian and feature-filmmaking team. Their award-winning debut, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s, depicted the closing of a Los Angeles restaurant and celebrity hang-out from the point of view of its staff. Both USA Today and CNN selected it as one of the 10 best movies of 1998. In 2003, their Harvey Pekar biopic American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Associate Professor, LTAC Director -
Susan Bernofsky’s literary translations include six works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Gregor von Rezzori, Uljana Wolf and others. She chairs the PEN Translation Committee and is co-editor (with Esther Allen) of the forthcoming Columbia University Press anthology In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means.
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Adjunct -
Mark Bibbins received a Lambda Literary Award for his first collection of poems, Sky Lounge; his second, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. He co-founded LIT, the journal of the New School graduate writing program. He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry.
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Assistant Professor -
Andy Bienen received a BA from New York University, an MA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in Film from Columbia University School of the Arts. He cowrote Boys Don't Cry with Kimberly Peirce ('96SOA), director of the film. Bienen's feature screenplay, Wankers, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 1996 Polo/Ralph Lauren Columbia University Film Festival.
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('81SOA) -
Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director, for her film The Hurt Locker, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. She also directed Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002).
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Assistant Professor -
Sanford is an installation, video, and performance artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Studio Museum Harlem. He has participated in several national and international artist residencies, and has been a fellow in programs including the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Program, and the P.S.1 International Studio Program.
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Bogart is the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Grant, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Adjunct -
Chris Boneau was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He moved to Gretna, LA (a suburb of New Orleans) and graduated from West Jefferson High School. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA and graduated with a BS in Speech Theatre. His primary interest was acting, though there was no degree or special program at the time, and he studied with Bill Harbin and Gresdna Doty.
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Adjunct -
Peg Boyers was born in Venezuela of Cuban and Irish parents but spent many important years living in Italy. Her two books of poems, Hard Bread andHoney With Tobacco, grow out of that mixed heritage. Among the authors whose work she has translated are Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Natalia Ginzburg. She is currently executive editor of Salmagundi magazine and teaches at Skidmore College and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor -
Deborah Brevoort is the author of numerous plays, musicals and operas, including The Women of Lockerbie, which is currently being produced all over the US and the world after winning the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting competition.
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Professor, Poetry Director -
Lucie Brock-Broido received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her books of poetry include Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; The Master Letters (1995); and A Hunger (1988). In 2008, she edited and published Letters to a Stranger, Poems by Thomas James with Graywolf Press.
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Assistant Professor -
Hilary Brougher's most recent film Innocence completed principal photography in the Summer 2012. The film was produced by Killer Films and adapted from Jane Mendelsohn's novel of the same title. It features Kelly Reilly, Linus Roache and Sophie Curtis; and was produced by Killer Films. Her 2007 feature Stephanie Daley starred Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where Hilary won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film was also awarded Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival.
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Courses
Mentor -
Utilizing photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing, Matthew Buckingham’s work questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. His projects create physical and social contexts that encourage viewers to question what is most familiar to them.
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Adjunct Professor -
Christopher Burney serves as both the Associate Artistic Director of Second Stage Theatre and Curator of 2ST Uptown. He has worked with Second Stage since 1997. He has also served as the theatre’s Literary Manager and Dramaturg. Recent shows at Second Stage Theatre include By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lynn Nottage, playwright; Jo Bonney, director), Bachelorette (Leslye Headland, playwright; Trip Cullman, director) and Trust (Paul Weitz, playwright; Peter DuBois, director).
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Adjunct Assistant Professor -
Loren-Paul Caplin is a screenwriter, director, playwright. Feature Film: The Lucky Ones (Writer/Director), Tribeca Film Festival (2003); History of the World in 8 Minutes (Writer/Director), New Directors/New Films Festival, MOMA, NYC (1998); Lost Angels (Original Story), Orion Pictures; Battle in the Erogenous Zone, (Co-Wrote and Co-Produced) Showtime; The Forbidden Zone (Music Producer), Samuel Goldwyn; Also written film scripts for: Paramount, Columbia, TriStar and numerous independents.
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('03SOA) -
Carolyn J. Casselman is an attorney in the Entertainment Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, where she represents a variety of clients in the media and entertainment industries. Her practice ranges from counseling Broadway producers and not-for-profit theaters to negotiating license agreements in connection with film, new media and other entertainment-related ventures. She also assists clients with copyright and trademark registration and portfolio maintenance. Prior to joining the firm, Carrie served as a law clerk to the Hon. Frank M.
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('09SOA) -
Liz Chae is a writer/director committed to bringing stories of women and the Korean-American experience to the screen. Born in Jamaica to Korean parents, she and her family immigrated to New York City where she pursued her love of writing and photography before studying film in Paris. Liz began her career in film exhibition and then moved into film production, working on Tony Bui’s Three Seasons and Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool. This led to a career producing movie trailers for Paramount and Nickelodeon.
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Associate Professor -
For the past eight years, Chaikelson has been serving as director of the Theatre Management & Producing Concentration. He is a member of the theatre faculty in the School of the Arts and in the undergraduate theatre program at Barnard College.
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('97SOA) -
Tina Chang is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and The New York Times among others.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.