Visual Arts Alumni
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From short experimental videos to feature-length narrative films, Tom Kalin’s award winning, critically acclaimed work has been screened throughout the world. His films and videos are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou and MoMA. His first feature, Swoon, was awarded the Caligari Prize at Berlin, the Fipresci Prize in Stockholm, Best Cinematography at Sundance and the Open Palm at the IFP Gotham Awards.
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Christina Kallas is a writer-producer for film and television, book author, professor of film and the president of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE).
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Jon Kessler received a B.F.A. from SUNY at Purchase and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has exhibited his work widely in Europe, Japan, and the United States. He has sculptures in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He has received several NEA grants, the St. Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Foundation for the Performing Arts grant.
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Simon Kinberg received his BA from Brown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude. He received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program, where he was the recipient of the Zaki Gordon Fellowship for Screenwriting.
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Rob King is a film historian with interests in American cinema, popular culture, and social history. Much of his work has been on comedy. His award-winning book, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (University of California Press, 2009), examined the role Keystone’s filmmakers played in developing new styles of slapstick comedy for moviegoers of the 1910s.
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Binnie Kirshenbaum received a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. She is the author of the story collection History on a Personal Note and six novels, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance in One Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among The Ruins, An Almost Perfect Moment and The Scenic Route.
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Eilis Kirwan is a screenwriter whose first feature film, The Whistleblower, is slated for theatrical release in August 2011. The film is based on the true experience of a woman peacekeeper in Bosnia who blows the whistle on a sex scandal the UN has sought to cover up, as told in the book by Kathryn Bolkovac and Carrie Lynn Pelgrave. Kirwan’s short films include “Nostradamus and Me” and “Little Christmas,” both of which she wrote and directed.
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David Klass has a double career as a screenwriter and novelist. He has written more than thirty screenplays for the Hollywood studios including: Kiss the Girls, Desperate Measures, In the Time of the Butterflies and Walking Tall. His new movie, Emperor, starring Tommy Lee Jones, will be coming out this year. David has also written eighteen novels, many of them for young adults. His new novel, Second Impact, will be published in 2013 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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A.B., Princeton, 1965. M.F.A., New York, 1968. Columbia faculty since 1996. Dan Kleinman’s original screenplays include Welcome to Oblivion (Concorde Films), directed by Lucho Llosa, and Rage (Warner Brothers), directed by and starring George C. Scott, for which Kleinman was also associate producer.
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Larysa Kondracki directed and cowrote the film The Whistleblower. The film, adapted from the exposé written by Kathryn Bolkovac with Cari Lynn, tells the true story of the UN sex trafficking scandal Bolkovac uncovered while working at a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. The film won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, won the Phillip Borsos Award for Best Film at the Whistler Film Festival, and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace Award.
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Brian Kulick is in his tenth year as the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. Recent productions that he has directed include: Brecht's Galileo with F. Murray Abraham, Shakespeare's The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin, Ostrovsky's The Forest with Dianne Wiest, and Shakespeare's Hamlet and Richard III with Michael Cumpsty. He commissioned and co-directed poet Anne Carson's award winning trilogy An Oresteia. He produced CSC's critically acclaimed Chekov Cycle (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard) with a constellation of artists that included: Alan Cumming, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Jolie Richardson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro and Dianne Weist). He has also made CSC the home for playwright David Ives whose Venus In Fur transferred to Broadway and was nominated for a Tony award for best production of 2011/12. Most recently he produced the revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion.
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Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007) and Gods Without Men (2011), and the story collection, Noise (2006). The Impressionist won the 2002 Betty Trask Award and the 2003 Somerset Maugham Award.
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Paul La Farge is the author of three novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005). He is the grateful recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Tina Landau is a writer, director and teacher, whose most recent work includes writing the book for the upcoming musical BEAUTY with Regina Spektor, directing ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Hartford Stage), Tracy Letts’ SUPERIOR DONUTS (on Broadway), and Tarell McCraney’s THE BROTHER SISTER PLAYS at Steppenwolf, where she is an ensemble member and has directed numerous productions including THE TEMPEST, DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, CHERRY ORCHARD, TIME OF YOUR LIFE, BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, her own play SPACE, and many more.
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Dorothea Lasky is the author of three books of poetry, AWE, Black Life and Thunderbird, all published by Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Press, 2010), The Blue Teratorn (YesYes Books, 2012), and Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012).
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Victor LaValle is the author of Slapboxing with Jesus, a book of stories, and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine. His newest work, The Devil in Silver, is forthcoming in Summer 2012. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowhsip and the key to Southeast Queens.
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PAUL LAZAR (Co-Director) is a founding member and co-artistic director, along with Annie-B Parson, of Big Dance Theater. He has co-directed and acted in works for Big Dance since 1991, including commissions from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Walker Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Classic Stage Company and Japan Society. His most recent work with Big Dance was co-directing Euripedes' Alkestis (Supernatural Wife) at BAM . He recently directed the comedy Elephant Room at St.
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Kristin Linklater trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She was the Master Teacher of Voice at New York University from 1965 to 1977, while also working with the Open Theater; the Negro Ensemble Company, Stratford, Ontario; the Guthrie Theatre; and Broadway shows. She was cofounder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1977. She has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Sam Lipsyte's most recent book is The Ask. He is also the author of Home Land, which was a The New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of The Believer Book Award, as well as The Subject Steve and Venus Drive. His fiction has appeared in The Quarterly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Noon, Tin House, Open City, n+1, Harper's, McSweeney's, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise and Playboy, among other places.
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Pavol Liska, a native of Slovakia, began directing plays after he graduated from Dartmouth in 1995. During this time he cofounded the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a theater company taking its name from Kafka’s Amerika. After taking a break from directing, he returned to Columbia for an MFA in directing. While a student of the Theatre Program, he directed Kasimir and Karoline and Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company.
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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.