Visual Arts Alumni
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Richard Locke is a critic and essayist, the author of more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, BookForum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications. His book Critical Children: The Use of Children in Ten Great Novels will be published in September 2011.
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Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a bachelor's degree at Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate at Union Graduate School in 1979. He is the author of three essay collections: Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; two novels: Confessions of Summer and The Rug Merchant; a pair of novellas: Two Marriages; two poetry collections: The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open and The Daily Round; and a memoir of his teaching experiences, Being With Children.
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Playwriting Mentor -
Craig Lucas’ plays include Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer For My Enemy and The Singing Forest.
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Three-time Tony Award-winning producer Hal Luftig has worked in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres for the past 20 years. His plays and musicals have garnered 23 Tony Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Adjunct -
Fiona Maazel is the author of two novels: Last Last Chance (2008) and, forthcoming, Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf, 2013). She is winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. Her work has appeared inBomb, Bookforum, Boston Book Review, Conjunctions, Fence, GQ, Glamour, Mississippi Review, The New York Times, Salon, This American Life, Tin House, The Village Voice, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and sometime director and producer. TimeOut New York has called him, “One of the most exciting theater artists of our time” and American Theater Magazine says, “Mac is one of this country’s most heroic and disarmingly funny playwrights.”
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Writer-director James Mangold is known for a string of box-office hits. His biopic Walk the Line, which depicts the rise to stardom of Johnny Cash, starred Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar for her performance as June Carter Cash. His next film, 3:10 to Yuma—a remake of a 1957 Western—garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. The film starred Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
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Adjunct Professor -
Soon after completing his training at INSAS (Institut National des Arts du Spectacle) in Brussels, Alain Maratrat joined Peter Brook’ s company, the International Centre of Theatrical Research. He performed in almost all of the company's productions including The Conference of the Birds, Carmen (for which he was also acting coach for the singers), The Mahabharata (for which he coached the company in martial arts), and The Tempest.
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Associate Professor, Acting Chair -
Ben Marcus’ most recent book is The Flame Alphabet. He is also the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His new book, Leaving the Sea, will be published by Knopf in January of 2014.
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Chuck Mee has written Big Love, True Love and First Love; bobrauschenbergamerica and Hotel Cassiopeia; Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women: A Love Story; and Summertime and Wintertime, among other plays—all of them available on the Internet at www.charlesmee.org and as a free iPhone app. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the gold medal for lifetime achievement in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of the Richard B. Fisher Award.
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Associate Professor -
Eric Mendelsohn's feature film debut, Judy Berlin, starring The Sopranos' Edie Falco, as well as Madeline Kahn, Barbara Barrie and Julie Kavner, was an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), won Best Director at Sundance, Best Independent Film at the Hamptons Film Festival and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.
His short film, Through An Open Window, starring Anne Meara and Cy
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Dinaw Mengestu’s debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Penguin Riverhead, 2007) has been translated into 12 languages. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2007, and received the 2007 Prix du Premier Meilleur Roman Etranger, 2007 Guardian First Book Award, and 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Adjunct -
Ben Metcalf was born in Illinois and raised in that state and later in rural Virginia. He was for many years the literary editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, Harper’s, and elsewhere and has twice been included in The Best American Essays. A book-length work is due out soon from Random House.
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Susan Minot’s debut, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina Étranger. In 1994 Minot collaborated on the screenplay for the feature Stealing Beauty with Bernardo Bertolucci, and wrote the screenplay for Evening, based on her 2007 novel of same name, with Michael Cunningham. Minot also published Lust & Other Stories in 1989, the novel Folly in 1993, and the novella Rapture, in 2002.
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A native of Malaysia and New Zealand, K.K. Moggie has worked in both Malaysia, New Zealand and now New York. She moved to New York to attend Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program. Since graduating in 2007 with her MFA in acting, she has done several theatre projects.
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Adjunct -
Stephen Molton is an award-winning author, screenwriter and filmmaker who has written mini-series and movies for such studios as Showtime Networks, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures and Viacom Networks. A former HBO and Showtime executive, Molton oversaw the development and production of many television films. He created a documentary production unit between New York Times Television and Showtime and has produced two documentary feature films of his own. Harper Collins published his first novel, Brave Talk in 1987.
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Adjunct -
Honor Moore is author of the acclaimed memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and of The White Blackbird, a biography of the painter Margarett Sargent by her Granddaughter, a New York Times Notable Book.
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Associate Professor -
As a producer, she has worked in theatre, film, and television and is a pioneer in narrative web content. She is the co-founder of eguiders.com, a web site that makes daily recommendations of the best online videos. Morphos was a producer of The Bedford Diaries, a series on the WB network. She has produced over twenty-five off-Broadway productions, premiering new plays by David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard and Frank Pugliese and the long-running hits Blown Sideways Through Life and The Food Chain.
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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.