Columbia University School of the Arts Class Notes

Film alum Aisha Amin ’24 received a fellowship from the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program for Video/Film.

Works of Mercy, a short film written and directed by Film alum Alex Yarber ’22 and produced by Film alums Jake Huebner ’22 and Tarek Aryani ’22, won Best Student Film at the New Hampshire Film Festival.

BLEEDING, a feature film written and directed by Film alum Andrew Bell ’21 and produced by Film alums Nicholas Payne Santos ’19, Bofan Zhang ’21, and Kenny Green ’20, had its North American premiere at Dances with Films: NY on December 6.

Visual Arts alum Anna Ting Moller '23 was featured in a three-person show, Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, at Mass MOCA.

When the Geese Flew, a film written and directed by Film alum Arthur Gawain Elias Gay ’24, was accepted into the Directors’ Fortnight. It featured Film alums Rali Chaouni ’24 as co-writer, Laura Ganotis ’23 as producer, and Michael Cong ’24 as DOP.

To Fade Away, directed and co-written by Film alum Camille Hamadé ’24, co-written by Film alum Chad B. Hamilton ’24, and co-produced by Film alum Kinder Labatt ’22, premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival on March 29. It will also screen at the Sunscreen Film Festival on April 25.

Blue Sun Palace, a film written and directed by Film alum Constance Tsang ’20 and produced by Film alum Tony Yang ’20, began its run at Lincoln Center on May 2nd. The film was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick and sold out theaters at Metrograph.

Theater alum Ellis Abigail Stump’s ’23 playwriting thesis White Bitches in Delhi was workshopped and presented at Williamstown Theatre Festival on August 10, 2024.

Tiha, written, directed, and produced by Film alum Eva Vidan ’24 and co-produced by Film alum Morgan Smith ’24, screened in competition at the 36th Trieste Film Festival on January 23, 2025.

Film alum Hwi-Eun Ban ’24 was a consultant on the Final Report by The United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on AI.

Visual Arts alum Jeremy Z. Qin ’22 was featured on the Dazed 100 Asia list of 2024.

Music from the 24-hour composition Elastic Horizons by Sound Arts alum Julian Day ’21 featured in the hallucinogenic new documentary John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office by directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art on March 4.

Film alum Kaelo Iyizoba ’23 was selected for the Sundance Cultural Impact Fellowship Selection.

Visual Arts alum Kai Oh ’24 showcased her work in her first solo exhibition, Will You Marry Me?, at Subtitled NYC starting February 15.

Visual Arts alum Laurena Finéus ’24 was awarded The William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists.

Classmates, written and directed by Film alum Major Dorfman ’22, produced by Film alum Grace Merriman ’21, and co-produced by Film alums Justin Gonçalves ’21 and Will Pinke ’22 premiered online as a Vimeo Staff Pick and is also viewable on Short of the Week and Directors’ Library.

Theatre alum Michael Karadsheh '22 performed in We Live in Cairo at the New York Theater Workshop from October 9–November 24, 2024.

Film alum Melina Maraki ’23 is a writer on a TV adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel Summer of 1985, which was greenlit as the first international show by US production studio Media Res.

Film alum Nimisha Misra ’24 won a Filmfare Award and an SWA Award for her work on her Netflix series Kaala Paani (Dark Waters).

Bury Me When I'm Dead, written and directed by Film alum Patrick Clement ’20, produced by Film alum Nic Santos ’19, and edited by Film alum Brusi Olason ’20, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment for U.S. Distribution. Originally titled Study in Blue, the screenplay was a CUFF 2020 Faculty Select winner and is slated for a Fall 2025 release.

Visual Arts alum Paul Rho’s ’23 new solo exhibition Ebbs and Flows opened on July 12, 2024 at Rockella Space in Ridgewood, Queens. 

Film alum Peter Forbes ’21 was selected to join the Universal Studios Animation Writing Workshop.

Theatre alums Sabrina Victor '24 and Aaron Joseph Anderson '24 starred in the premiere of the James ljames play Good Bones at The Public Theater, which showed from September 19–October 27, 2024.

Theatre alum Sam Gibbs ’24 directed a site-specific performance of The Comedy of Errors for Stairwell Theater at the Pier 40 Picnic House in Hudson River Park from May 1 to May 11.

Theatre alum Sam Grabiner ’21 received the Olivier Award in Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre for his play, Boys on the Verge of Tears.

Meridian, an exhibit at Below Grand on the Lower East Side that showed from October 4 to November 17, 2024, featured work from Visual Arts alums Sasha Fishman ’24, Bat-Ami Rivlin ’19, and Alison Nguyen ’23.

Film alum Soumya Vats ’22 published the piece “‘You too will marry…’: Inclusion and Exclusion at the Uneasy Wedding in A Suitable Boy” in an open-access edited volume.

Film alum Tony Yang ’20 produced a feature film, Lucky Lu, that was selected for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes this year. He was also a co-producer for Rosemead, which was announced to premiere at Tribeca Festival and featured Film alums Alex Peace Power ’17 as a line producer and Samantha Lori Glass ’23 as an office PA.

Visual Arts alum Yuri Yuan ’21 was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Art & Style.

Adrián Pérez ’20 published a short story titled “The Sinkhole” in Booth. 

Theatre alum Alle Mims ’23 did a reading of a new work in progress, The Strip Club Manifesto, at Pete's Candy Store on June 19, 2023. The reading was a part of the reading series Play Date at Pete's. 

Congrats to Writing alum Ariel So '23 for publishing a poem titled “Tender White Desk” in Sinking City.

Theatre alum Colm Summers '22 directed Every Brilliant Thing at Geffen Playhouse.

The 8th Annual National Women's Theatre Festival runs from June 21 to July 1, 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Theater alum Emily Boyd Dahab '20 serves as the artistic producer of the festival. Zizi Majid '20 will give a talk at the Conference called "Elevating Women Playwrights of Color."

Tending to change, a solo show by Visual Arts alum Jacq Groves '22, opened June 17, 2023 and ran until August 6. In this exhibition, Groves honors processes of transformation and the care to incite change. 

Visual Arts alum Kevin Cobb ’23 had work featured in The I Has to Travel at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. This exhibition explored whether we are doomed to replicate the past or if we can take stock of our history and begin anew.

Sound Art alum Lauren Covey '21 led a symposium where she discusses her new work, “a sonic family portrait,” and shares her process of working with sound as a mental health tool. 

Writing alum Mark Lopez '20 published Laura from the Valley, a short novel about a little girl whose parents die, and she's forced to live with her Uncle Hector, who surrounds her with drugs and prostitution.

As part of the Center for Book Arts’s 2023 group exhibition Visual Volumes: Contemporary Explorations in Book Arts, visual arts alum Roni Aviv ‘21 displayed work embodying interdisciplinary approaches to creative book practices.

Visual Arts alum Susan Chen's ‘20 exhibition Purell Night & Day was at Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY) July 13–August 18, 2023. With Purell Night & Day, Chen continued a long-standing tradition of artists exploring a seemingly mundane subject in seriality and in the process, uncovering undiscovered meaning below the surface. 

Dominus, a debut poetry collection by Writing alum Tiffany Troy ’22, is forthcoming with BlazeVox in September 2023. The book challenges the inner workings of the capitalist bureaucracy with what Cyrus Cassells calls the “irreverence and snap-crackle-pop allusiveness of Alan Dugan’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning first book.

Film alum Tony Yang ’20 was selected to participate in Sundance Institute's Producers Intensive. The Producers Intensive provides early career rising producers from traditionally underrepresented communities the opportunity to enhance their craft in a two-day concentrated workshop by offering creative, strategic, and professional development support. 

Writing alum Abhigna Mooraka ’22 published a story titled “Storytellers” in The Rumpus. 

Theatre alums Ada Zhang ’20, Annie Wang ’20, and current student Yining Cao ’24 were part of the creative team on the premiere of Jeremy Tiang's SALESMAN 之死, an all-Asian, women-led bilingual play inspired by Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in China. It ran October 10—28, 2023 at the Yangtze Repertory Theatre in New York. 

Film alum Aiman Mimiko ’22 was awarded the Princess Grace Foundation's Sir Roger Moore Film Honor. 

Dishwasher Dreams, which Theatre alum Alaudin Ullah ’22 wrote and performed in, premiered on the West Coast. It was produced by The Old Globe.

Visual Arts alum Anna Ting Möller’s ’23's exhibition Fantasy of the Fabrication was on view at Urban Glass's Window Gallery August 9—September 29, 2023. 

Visual Arts alum Calvin Kim's ’23's work was part of the Welcome Collective exhibition Sarang: Conversation on Love November 10—December 1, 2023. 

Writing alum Catherine Fisher ’23 hosted a translation event called Colloquy #8: New Directions, featuring translations from New Directions. 

Film alum Christina Wood’s ’20's films Close To You and The Dead Don’t Hurt played at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. 

Writing alum Claudia Arevalo ’22 was a Tupelo Press 30/30 Project-featured poet during the month of October. The 30/30 Project challenges selected poets to write 30 poems in 30 days while helping them build their readership base. 

Writing alum Elliott Eglash ’22 published an essay titled “Putting My Foot In It” in The Smart Set.

Visual Arts alum Elzie Williams III ’22 curated What A Fool Believes, a group exhibition featuring 13 contemporary artists, which was on view at Subtitled NYC November 9—December 3, 2023. 

Theatre alum Greg T. Nanni ’21 wrote Love (Among Dreamers), the inaugural production of The House, a production lab by Broadway for All. 

Film alums Hazel McKibbin ’23 and Lauren Goetzman’s ’22's short film Border Line was a “Daily Pick” on Film Shortage.

Writing alum Jared Jackson ’20 was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, the nation’s preeminent artist residency program. His short story "Bebo," initially published in The Kenyon Review, was selected by series editor Heidi Pitlor and guest editor Min Jin Lee to be featured in the book anthology The Best American Short Stories 2023.

Visual Arts alum Jenn Hassin's ’20 Project Raha Exhibition and Charity Auction was open November 2—30, 2023. The exhibit told the stories of a group who served in the Female Tactical Platoon in Afghanistan and came to the US as refugees in 2021.

Film alum Jon Lazar ’20 was chosen to participate in Circle of Confusion's Writer Discovery Fellowship.

Visual Arts alum Katherine Blackburne ’22 was featured in the group show Earthly Pleasures at Deli Gallery.  

A Lamp is Not the Only Sign of Glass, an exhibition of paintings by Visual Arts alum Kelsey Shwetz ’22, was on view at the Half Gallery in Los Angeles September 21—October 14, 2023.

Bag Lady, directed by Film alum Max McGillivray ’22, co-written by Film alum Kristin Kurtis  ’20, and produced by Film alum Kinder Labatt  ’22 screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and the Eastern Oregon Film Festival in October 2023.

The Cheapest France in Town, a poetry collection by Seo Jung Hak, was translated from Korean into English by Writing alum Megan Sungyoon ’20.

Visual Arts alum Lau Wai ’20 was a part of the group show Offworlds, which ran October—December, 2023 at YvuYANG Gallery in New York City. 

Writing alum Pablo Castro ’23 published a short story titled “Dead Ringer” in Chicago Review.

Theatre alum Paola Alexandra Soto ’20 was a recipient of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant for her thesis play La Sosa Sisters. 

Theatre alum Rebecca Miller Kratzer ’22 assistant directed Grounded, a play produced by Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. Performances ran October 28 through November 13, 2023.

Visual Arts alum Roni Aviv's ’21's work was featured in the group exhibition Visual Volumes: Contemporary Explorations in Book Arts at Center for Book Arts in New York which ran July 14—September 9, 2023.

Writing alum Ryan Cook ’22 published four poems in The Poetry Project.

Theatre alum Sam Grabiner ’20 was commissioned through Manhattan Theatre Club's Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative for theatrical works on STEM themes.

Coral, written & directed by Film alum Sonia Oleniak ’21 and co-produced by Film alum Constanza Majluf ’21, screened at the New York Film Festival in October, 2023. 

Hesitation Wound, written and directed by Film alum Selman Nacar ’21 and co-edited by Film alum Melik Kuru ’21, was selected to screen as part of the Orizzonti (Horizons) Feature Competition at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Theatre alums Tayler Everts ’23 co-produced the 20th Annual Prelude Festival. Artists included alums Jess Applebaum ’12, Anne Gridley ’06, Robert Johanson ’05, Pavol Liska ’06, April Sweeney ’00, and Ashley Tata ’12. Performances ran throughout New York City in October. 

Theatre alum Thomas Swayne ’20 produced Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, currently running on Broadway.

Film alum Valeria Contreras ’23 was chosen to participate in Film Independent's Producing Lab.

Film alum Wes Andre Goodrich ’23 was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. 

Sound Arts alum Anthony Sertel Dean ’22 was part of an oral history project through The Brown Center for Media Innovation at Stanford.

Sound Arts alum Avishag Cohen-Rodrigues ’21 performed for a show by Visual Arts alum Naama Tsabar ’10 at Hamburger Bahnhof and toured with their band.

Motherland, directed by Film alum Christina Yoon ’21, co-written by Christina & Film alum Minkyu Kang ’22, and produced by Film alums Jungyoon Kim ’20 and Grace Merriman ’21, won the award for Best Narrative Short Film at the Provincetown International Film Festival, making it Oscar eligible. 

Sound Arts alum Gladstone Butler ’23 presented new work at Carnegie Hill Concerts.

Northern Lights, a narrative short film directed by Film alum Hangcheng Xu ’24 and produced by Film alum Emily Xiaoyue Ruan ’23, was screened at UnionDocs as part of the film series Memories of Southern China.

Sound Arts alum Joan Hacker ’21 had a track on a compilation produced by The Wire magazine.

Sound Arts alum John Thomas Levee ’22 presented Surface Depth Reception at Champlain College.

Sound Arts alum Jonathan Harris ’22 showed in Natural Manipulation at the CREATE Council on the Arts in Catskill, NY.

Film alum Jordan Anstatt’s ’23 short film Nobody Skates but Me had its West Coast premiere at Culver City Film Festival earlier this month. The film is produced by Film alum Holly Andrews ’23.

Visual Arts alum Kelsey Shwetz ’22 was a featured artist in the group exhibition Collapsed Narratives at Dinner Gallery from March 14 to April 27, 2024.

Sound Arts alum Lauren Covey ’21 presented Sonic Portraits at Fountain House Gallery.

Wall Plates, a solo show by Visual Arts alum Lizzie Zelter ’22, opened at Sala de Espera in Tijuana, B.C., Mexico on March 16, 2024.

Theatre alum Luz Lorenzana Twigg ’23 was published in Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage by Routledge Press. 

Michael Khalid Karadsheh ’22 starred in the world premiere of The Ally at The Public Theater, which opened on February 15, 2024 in New York.

So They Say (Así Dicen), directed by Film alum Natalia Luque Barrios ’22, written by Natalia and Film alum Cecilia Otero ’22 and produced by Cecilia and Film alum Donovan Tolledo ’22, screened at the PÖFF Shorts Film Festival, the Guadalajara Film Festival and the Temecula Film Festival.

Sound Arts alum Rosana Cabán ’21 won a national search for a position teaching creative collaboration at Stevens Institute and was interviewed by We Make Noise.

BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS, a play by Theatre alum Sam Grabiner ’21, premiered at Soho Theatre in London and ran from April 11 to May 18, 2024.

Plan B, a solo exhibition by Susan Chen ’20, opened at Rachel Uffner Gallery on March 8 and was on view until April 20, 2024.

Sound Arts alum Tim Kwasny ’21 co-edited Volume 5 of the Video Game Art Reader for UMich Press.

Writing alum Zachary Issenberg ’20 published an essay titled "José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature" in The Millions.

Film alum Agnes Skonare Karlsson '21 spoke about her film Berry Pickers as part of the 2022 Columbia University Film Festival. 

Writing alum Antoinette Cooper’s '20 poem "After Breonna" is featured in the spring 2022 issue of The Amistad.

Writing alum Antoinette Cooper '20 was awarded a 2022 Winter Literature Grant by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation for her upcoming book Unruly.

Writing alum Antoinette Cooper '20 received the Twenty Summers 2023 Artist Residency.

Sleeptalking, the debut poetry collection of Writing alum Antonio Addessi ’20, was published by Rebel Satori Press.

Shortcomings, music coordination by Film alum Cheryl Wang 22’ will screen at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Jensen, directed by Film alum Chloe Sarbib '20, co-written by Sarbib and Film alum Gina Hackett '20,and produced by Film alum Waleed Alqahtani '20, premiered at the Aspen Shortsfest.

Theatre alum Cristina (Cha) Ramos ’21 associate intimacy-directed Company on Broadway.

Theater alum DeAndre C. Short ’23 assistant-directed Confederates by Dominique Morisseau at the Signature Theatre. 

Writing alum Elena Sheppard '20 published a personal essay titled “The Week Before My Sons Were Born, I Lost My Smile” in The Cut.

Writing alum Elliot Alpern '20 published a fiction piece titled “Sowing Ground” in The Normal School.

Writing alum Emily Simon ‘21 published her first book, In Many Ways, with Winter Editions.

Writing alum Gauraa Shekhar '21 published a fiction piece as part of Phillips Auctions'  "The Prompt" series.

Writing alum Gila Ashtor ’20 has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for her book Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia.

An Evening with Laila, directed and produced by Film alum Haya Alghanim '20 and edited by Film alum Waleed Alqahtani '20, won the Golden Hypatia Award for Best International Documentary at the Alexandria Short Film Festival.

Céu de Agosto, directed by Film alum Jasmin Tennuci '20, co-written by Tennuci and Film alum Saim Sadiq '19 and executive produced by Film alum Kári Úlfsson '20, was a Cannes Short Film 2021 Official Selection and won the award for Best International Short Film at the FemCine Women's Film Festival in Chile.

Film alum Jasmin Tenucci ’20 was selected to participate in the 51st iteration of the New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) festival from Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

Let There Be Light, written and directed by Film alum Jon K. Jones '21 and produced by Film alum Jonathan Brown '21, screened at the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival in August 2022.

Nobody Skates But Me, a new short film by Film alum Jordan Anstatt '23, is a bromantic comedy about a skater who tries to get revenge after getting cool-guyed at the skatepark and is out now. 

Theatre alum Julián Mesri '20 was the musical director and arranger for Radical Evolution’s Songs About Trains, produced by Working Theater and New Ohio.

Theater alum Julian Mesri's '20 adaptation of Comedy of Errors will tour May 2-21, 2023 and then run at The Public May 25-June 11, 2023.

Pale Slope of the Hour, a solo show of work by Visual Arts alum Kelsey Shwetz '22, is on view at Galerie Julien Cadet (Paris, France) until April 22, 2023. 

Theatre alumni Logan Reed '21 (director), Kate Pressman '20 (writer, illustrator, and hands performer), Elizagrace Madrone '20 (producer and dramaturg), and Josh Brown '20 (soundtrack composer) joined in collaboration on “Marta Nesspek Presents,” a series of digital shorts.  

Theater alum Logan Reed '21 is associate directing Grey House, on Broadway now through September 3, 2023. 

Visual Arts alum Monica Felix '20 is participating in the exhibition Ida y Vuelta (Arrivals and Departures: Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art). The exhibition runs until September 30, 2023 in Hunter East Harlem gallery in partnership with The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO). 

Egúngún (Masquerade), a film by Film alum Olive Nwosu '21, won the award for Best Student Short at the 2022 Aspen Shortfest.

Theatre alum Robbie Armstrong '21 was on the creative team of the new musical Paradise Square, which ran at the Barrymore Theatre.

Bury Me When I’m Dead, a film by Film alum Seabold Krebs '20, was chosen to participate in the Buyers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival's Frontières Market.

Visual Arts alum Sophie Kovel '22 is participating in No Necessary Correspondence, the Spring Exhibition of the Whitney independent study program (ISP). The exhibition opens on May 17, 2023 and runs until May 28, 2023 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Visual Arts alum Roni Aviv’s '21 solo exhibition, A Temporary Weight, opens at Real Art Ways on May 18th, 2023.

Four Walks in Central Park, an immersive book-poem by Writing alum Aaron Poochigian ’16, will be released in September 2025.

Doc, the television series starring Theatre alum Anya Banerjee ’20, has been renewed for a 22-episode season 2.

Writing alum Carla Stockton ’16 published her book, Too Much of Nothing, on October 29, 2024.

Writing alum Chris Vola ’10 published The Cocktail Atlas, which takes readers around the world through the lens of a cocktail glass, exploring the links between people, place, and taste.

Theatre alum Clarence Coo ’10 was the co-winner of the Horton Foote Prize, conferred by the Dramatists Guild.

Visual Arts alums Cristina Camacho ’15 and Chitra Ganesh ’02 were included in the 10 best booths at Frieze New York.

Theatre alum Danny Rocco ’12 demonstrated the software Script Writing Score Engine, or SWSENG, at the Atlantic Theater Company in October. Artists can use SWSENG to write and rehearse plays and live events with expanded scope and narrowed nuance at the same time.

April, a film directed by Film alum Dea Kulumbegashvili '18 and produced by Film alum Ilan Amouyal '17, won the Special Jury Prize at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. 

Theater alum Emily Cosimar ’16 was named Executive Artistic Director of Oklahoma City Rep.

“Serranos,” the O. Henry Prize-winning short story by Writing alum Francisco González ’19, was anthologized in The Best Short Stories 2024.

Writing alum Jane Marchant’s ’18 short story The Moth was published in Kweli Journal in June 2024.

The production Salomania from Citizen Arts featured Theatre alum Jess Applebaum ’12 as dramaturg and Theatre alums Michael Mullen ’13 and David Skeist ’06 as cast members.

Film alum Jessica Baclesse ’14 edited and Film alum Andrew Hauser ’12 managed production on Rez Ball, a film about a high school basketball team set on the Navajo Nation. It premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and was produced by Lebron James and distributed by Netflix.

JML NYC 02-23, a book of photography by Visual Arts alum Joseph Michael Lopez ’11, was published in September and featured in an article by The Guardian.

The group exhibition Tone Check: The Skins of Contemporary Korean Painting featured work by Visual Arts alum Judy Chung ’18 at Eli Klein until January 16, 2025.

Visual Arts alum Kambui Olujimi ’13 has been chosen to create a large-scale glass mosaic floor medallion which will be publicly featured at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6. 

Theater alum Kate Flanagan ’12 starred in Penetentia, a legal crime thriller that finished a successful festival run last fall and was released on Apple and Amazon on June 18. 

Writing alum Katrine Øgaard Jensen ’17 was named the new executive director of the American Literary Translators Association.

Writing alum Kayla Maiuri ’16 published a short story, “The Eldest,” in BOMB Magazine and “Ghost Story” in Joyland Magazine.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented by Red Bull Theater and Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble, featured Theatre alums Kea Trevett ’16 as director and Alice Renier ’16 and Saby Ramirez ’22 as cast members in a public performance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater on April 11.

Theatre alum Kea Trevett ’16 was awarded an NYFA grant for her film adaptation of As You Like It, featuring Theatre alum Brynne McManimie ’16, Theatre alum Peter Romano ’15, Theatre alum Alice Renier ’16, and Theatre alum Aaron Morton ’16.

Ask A Punk, a short film by Film alum Kevin Contento ’18, will be having its World Premiere at the Miami Film Festival in April. The film was made in Chicago in conjunction with Full Spectrum Feature and their initiative called Community Storytellers.

Visual Arts alum Kiyan Williams ’19 received a fellowship from the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program in the Interdisciplinary category.

Writing alum Kyle Paoletta ’16 published American Oasis, a book of nonfiction on the American Southwest.

The Distractions, a novel of speculative fiction by Writing alum Liza Monroy ’10, was published in January.

Theatre alum Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 directed The Beacon by Nancy Harris, which received its North American premiere at the Irish Rep off-Broadway and starred Kate Mulgrew.

Film alum Mehrnoush Alia ’13 received a fellowship from the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program for Video/Film.

Writing alum Melissa Larsen ’19 published her second novel, The Lost House, which has been named an Amazon Editors' Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and an LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Adult Fiction of 2025.

Theater alum Nako Ama Adodoadji ’18 founded an immersive entertainment company called Wild Crux Productions in Atlanta, GA. 

Writing alum Rose Waldman ’14 published a new translation of Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade with Penguin Random House, which was reviewed in The New York Times.

Writing alum Samantha Childs ’14 won a Christopher Award for her children’s book, Henri and the Magnificent Snort, illustrated by Hannah Farr.

Writing alum Tanya Paperny ’11 received a grant from the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She also exhibited a poem in EXHIBITING FAILURE.

Visual Arts alum Victoria-Idongesit Udondian ’16 received an Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant for her project, ‘Okrika’ Reclaimed!.

Visual Arts alum Vikram Divecha ’19 published the monograph Short Circuits, following a survey exhibition at Jameel Arts Centre in 2024.

Theatre alum C. Quintana's ’13 has released a new Audible Emerging Playwrights commissioned play, The 126-Year-Old Artist, which is now available on Audible. 

Writing alum Chris Molnar '18 published two reviews in The Los Angeles Review titled “No Monuments: On Ian Penman’s 'Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors'" and “Someone Always Takes Me Home: On Howard Fishman’s 'To Anyone Who Ever Asks.'”

Film alum Claire Fowler’s '11 US TV directorial debut dropped on Netflix on June 2 as part of Manifest S4 Pt 2 (Episode is 414).

Writing alum Dennard Dayle '17 published a humor piece titled “Profiling the Profile Writer Profiling Me” in The New Yorker.  

Visual arts alum Dineo Seshee Bopape’s '10 first solo museum exhibition in New York is on view at The Museum of Modern Art in the Museum’s street-level gallery from July 1 through October 9, 2023.

Writing alum Erin Pesut '15 published an essay titled “Tailored Congruence” in Raft Magazine. The essay is a part of The Paddle, Raft's series of personal essays about the ups and downs of the creative life.

Visual arts alum Esteban Cabeza de Baca's ’14 exhibition Alma ran June 8-July 21 at Garth Greenan Gallery in NYC.  

Francisco Gonzálezm '19 was awarded a Steinbeck Fellowship, which offers writers of any age and background a $15,000 fellowship to finish a significant writing project. Named in honor of author John Steinbeck, the program is guided by his lifetime of work in literature, the media, and environmental activism.

Grayson Cox '10 was featured in the group exhibition FEEDER at Good Naked (Catskill, NY). FEEDER circled around ideas of exchange and offering, consumption and participation.

Work by Jackson Polys '15 was at Counterpublic in St. Louis, MO until July 15. Counterpublic 2023 was one of the nation's largest public art platforms, bringing 30+ new artist commissions to life in public parks, gardens, historic houses and museums around St. Louis. 

James Gortner's '10 exhibition Terra Incognita was at Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice (New York, NY) May 18–August 12, 2023. 

Writing alum Jenessa Abrams '17 was named an Emerging Critics Fellow for the National Book Critics Circle’s 2023-2024 cohort. 

Writing alum Kristi DiLallo Osorio ‘17 was named the winner of the Indiana Review 2023 Creative Nonfiction Prize for her essay “The Sound of Burning.”

Annex, written and directed by Writing alum Maddox Pennington '15, is having its World Premiere at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

As part of the Autry Museum of the American West's Native Voices New Plays Festival, Central Standard Time by Writing alum Maddox Pennington '15 will receive a public reading in Los Angeles at the Autry on June 10th, then a week of workshopping and revision, and a reading at the La Jolla Playhouse on June 18, 2023.

Winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize, Writing alum Matthew Gellman '18, published his chapbook titled Night Logic with Tupelo Press in August 2023. 

Writing alum Samantha Childs '14 published Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love, in July 2023, with Sea Lavender Publishing. 

Smoking Tigers, screenwritten and directed by film alum So Young Shelly Yo '18, won Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature, Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative, and a Nora Ephron Award Special Jury Mention at Tribeca Film Festival 2023.

Film alum So Young Shelly Yo’s '18 feature debut Smoking Tigers is among Variety's 9 Must-See Movies at Tribeca Festival. According to Variety, "What makes Tribeca so exciting is that it’s a springboard for bold new voices (keep your eyes on So Young Shelly Yo, making her feature directorial debut)."

Writing alum Stephen Cicirelli '10 published a flash fiction piece titled “Adversity is the Parent of Virtue (in Bed)” in Okay Donkey Magazine.

Theater alum Tiffany Vega-Gibson '12 launched Evolution Management Consultants (EMC) as partner & co-founder. 

Canusa Street, a sitcom television pilot written & directed by Film alum Zack Morrison '18 and produced by Film alum Carver Diserens '17 had its world premiere at Dances With Films in Hollywood, on July 1, 2023 at the Chinese Theater.

In the Spirit of Àṣẹ, a solo exhibition by Visual Arts alum Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18, is running until March 10, 2024 at The Newark Museum of Art.

Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone, an acoustic hyperpop folk opera written and performed by Theatre alums Andy Boyd ’18 and Philip Santos Schaffer ’18 as part of the trio Friend of Friend, ran October 12–28, 2023 at The Brick in New York.

Writing alum Annabelle Larsen ’15 published a short story in the Spout Press anthology Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces. 

Film alum Apoorva Charan '18 served as a guest speaker at Film Independent's Producing Lab. 

Theatre alum Ashley Tata ’12 directed Ted Hearne’s Dorothea. 

Visual Arts alum Bat-Ami Rivlin’s ’19 sculpture Untitled (12 tubs) was featured as a part of the exhibit The Socrates Matter, which runs until March 24, 2024.

Film alum Brian McAuley ’13 authored Candy Cain Kills, a Christmas slasher novella.

Theatre alum Catherine Copplestone ’11 had a supporting role in Obliterated, a Netflix original series by the creators of Cobra Cai.

Film alum Celine Song ’14 was announced as the recipient of the annual Vanguard Award presented by Acura at the Sundance Film Festival 2024. 

Theatre alum Chas LiBretto's ’16 workshop of his new play Poisonville was performed at 59E59 in New York on September 10, 2023.

Theatre alum Chas LiBretto's ’16's Pulitzer-nominated Cyclops: A Rock Opera ran October 20–November 3, 2023 at The Tank in New York.

Visual Arts alum Daria Irincheeva's ’18's exhibition Piling Wreckage was on view at big screen in Brooklyn, NY.

Our Father, The Devil, a France-set thriller written and directed by Film alum Ellie Foumbi ’17, was released and ran in select theaters nationwide.

Writing alum Emily Skillings ’17 was awarded a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry.

Writing alum and faculty member Emma Cline ’13 published the national bestseller novel The Guest.

Writing alum Gina Rider '17 published an essay titled “A Superintendent Becomes a Lifeline for Senior Tenants” in The New York Times.

Visual Arts alums Heidi Howard ’14 & Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s ’14's exhibition Light from Water ran August 19—November 26, 2023 at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY.

Visual Arts alums Heidi Howard ’14 & Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s ’14 did a talk at Wave Hill as a part of its Meet the Artist series. 

Visual Arts alum Ilana Harris-Babou’s '16's exhibition Needy Machines was featured in The New Yorker. 

Writing alums Jenessa Abrams ’17, D.L. Lee ’18, and Garen Torikian ’22 read their work at Columbia Selects—an alumni reading series hosted at KGB Bar by the MFA Writing Program. 

Writing alum Joni Marie Iraci ’17 published a flash fiction titled “Up All Night” in Quartz Literary. 

Visual Arts alum Kambui Olujimi’s ’13's work was featured in the group exhibition Inheritance at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition is on view until February 2024.

Theatre alum Kim Katzberg ’09 co-wrote and acted in the short film Like Going to a Hardware Store for Lunch, which premiered in the Official Selection of the 2023 New York Shorts International Film Festival. 

Film alum Laurence Vannicelli ’15 wrote and directed the psychological thriller film Mother May I?, executive produced by Film alum Raj Trivedi ’17 and edited by Film alum Keola Racela ’15.

Writing alum Mandy Berman ’15 published a story titled "The Emily Problem" in Joyland.

Writing alum Matt Alston '14 published an essay titled “Your Project Management Software Can't Save You” in WIRED.

Writing alum Matthew Gellman ’18 published a chapbook titled Night Logic with Tupelo Press. 

Theatre alum Mikhaela Mahony ’19 directed the play Redwood, which ran October 18–November 12, 2023 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. 

Visual Arts alum Nadja Verena Marcin's ’10's app #SOPHYGRAY was released earlier this year and is available for download. 

Theatre alum Nana Dakin '18 directed The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore. 

Visual Arts alum Pablo Barba’s ’16's exhibition Genre Paintings was on view October 12–November 11, 2023 at A Hug From The Art World in New York.

Writing alum Paul McArdory '19 published an essay titled “The Garden” in Metrograph.

Film alum Rob Cristiano '13 was chosen to participate in Film Independent's Producing Lab.

Theatre alum Robert Christopher Maxwell ’19 stage managed As Much As I Can, a fully immersive, multi-sensory experience presented by ViiV Healthcare. Performances ran November 3–18, 2023 at The Georgia Freight Depot in Atlanta.

Theatre alum Rory McGregor ’17 directed No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh, named a New York Times Critic Pick.

Visual Arts alum Ruhee Maknojia’s ’19's debut solo exhibition, Pattern and Power, was on view at the Anya Tish Gallery in Houston, TX September 8—November 4,2023. 

Theatre alum Scott Ebersold ’14 directed Amy Crossman's The Great Divide at Here Arts Center in New York. The show ran October 5—22, 2023. 

Theatre alum Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 received commissions through Manhattan Theatre Club's Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative for theatrical works on STEM themes.

Writing alum Shoshana Akabas ’19 founded and currently serves as the director of New Neighbors Partnership, an organization that matches refugee, asylee, and asylum-seeking families with local NYC families who have older kids and can pass on hand-me-down clothing from season to season.

And, Or, Not, Visual Arts alum Vivian Chiu’s ’19's debut solo exhibition, was on view at FLXST Contemporary in Chicago September 23–October 29, 2023.

Film alum Zack Morrison’s '18's pilot Canusa Street screened at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York. 

Sound Arts alum Alice Baird ’16 published papers on sound, facial expressions, and emotion as part of her work at Hume AI.

Theatre alum Amber Chardae Robinson ’15 starred in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of Black Cypress Bayou, which opened in February 2024, and was part of the star-studded ensemble in the Apple TV series Palm Royale, playing alongside Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern.

Gun & Powder, featuring a book and lyrics by Angelica Chéri ’13, ran at Paper Mill Playhouse from April 4 to May 5, 2024.

Sound Arts alum Ashley Grier ’17 presented Love Letters for Solidarity at Creativetime HQ in February.

Theatre alum Ashley Melone ’14 is lead producer on the Broadway transfer of David Adjmi's play Stereophonic.

Theatre alum Benita de Wit ’16 was the U.S. associate director for the Broadway revival Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger.

Sound Arts alums Cameron Fraser ’16 and Chatori Shimizu ’16 presented Ebi Revolution at Crossroads in Salzburg, Austria.

Sound Arts alum Carla Cisno ’15 wrote an article for Medium on web3 art ownership.

Writing alum Carlie Hoffman ’16 was awarded The National Jewish Book Award in Poetry for her poetry collection When There Was Light.

Writing alum Carrie Mullins ’10 published a book titled The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood.

Sound Arts alum Chatori Shimizu ’16 had a piece featured on Score Follower.

Writing alum Erin Pesut ’15 received a Pushcart Prize nomination from Chautauqua for her essay, "Endings," which appeared in their 20.1 Chance Encounters Issue. 

Sound Arts alum Dani Dobkin ’17 released an album with Matt Sargent and toured the northeast U.S.

Writing alum Daniel Felsenthal ’15 published an essay titled "Hipsters Were Always Hypocrites. Ask Frank Zappa" in The Atlantic.

Theatre alum Danielle Karliner Naish ’13 was named the co-lead of RCI Theatricals, the Broadway general management company behind shows like Hadestown, American Buffalo, Oklahoma! and more. 

Theatre alum Danny Rocco ’12 hosted a demonstration of his Script Writing Score (SWS) at Judson Memorial Church, introducing a new way to compose theater, live events, immersive experiences, and more.

Sound Arts alum Ethan Edwards ’18 presented a talk on the flaws of LLMs and Universal Translation in AI.

Sound Arts alum Frank Spigner ’16 became the A/V Network & Audio Production Manager at the Lenfest Center for the Arts at Columbia.

Theatre alum Freddie Fulton ’18 was a cast member in National Geographic’s television series Genius: MLK/X.

Theatre alum Ito Aghayere ’12 played a political reporter in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive at the Geffen Playhouse.

Writing alum Jane Marchant ’18 was awarded the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and published a personal travel essay in the Columbia Journal titled The End of the Ends.

Visual arts alum Jeffrey Meris ’19 takes part in the group exhibition And Ever an Edge as a Studio Museum Artist in Residence at the MoMA PS1. Meris’ work was on view through April 8, 2024. 

Theatre alum Jeffrey Page ’19 directed the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living at Suzanne Roberts Theatre.

Film alum John Foss ’15 line produced the Netflix holiday comedy Best. Christmas. Ever!

Writing alum Julia Cooke ’13 published the books of nonfiction Come Fly the World in 2021 and The Other SIde of Paradise in 2014.

Sound Arts alum Kamari Carter ’19 exhibited Dark Blue, Almost Black at Spaces in Cleveland through May 10th.

Sound Arts alum Lee Gilboa ’19 gave a dissertation performance at Brown.

Writing alum Magdalena Zyzak ’11 published a novel, The Lady Waiting, on May 7th, 2024.

Theatre alum Melis Aker ’18 was selected as a Theatre503 503Five Resident Writer. 

Theatre alum Marcel Spears ’15 starred in the West Coast premiere of Fat Ham at the Geffen Playhouse.

Theatre alum Marcel Spears ’15 stars in the now-6th season of CBS’s The Neighborhood. 

Sound Arts alums Mengtai Zhang ’19 and Lemon Guo ’18 presented Diagnosia at the Doc Edge Festival.

Sound Arts alum Nolan Lem ’15 exhibited Double Blind at Riises Landsted in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Last Movie They Ever Made, a narrative feature film directed by Film alum Scott Riehs ’15, made its world premiere in May at the Big Apple Film Festival in Manhattan. In addition to Riehs, who also served as co-writer, co-star, and co-producer for the movie, the film featured several other Film alums in major roles: Micah Paisner ’16 as co-writer, co-producer, and co-star; Alice Shindelar ’16 as co-producer and co-star; Thomas Mentel ’18 as director of photography; and cameos by Hernán Jiménez ’17, Nick Weiss-Richmond ’17, and Michael Castelaz ’17.

Theatre alum Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 received an Obie Award for Direction for his play Public Obscenities, produced by Soho Rep and National Asian American Theatre Company.

Writing alum Nathan Osorio ’17 received the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his poetry collection, Querida.

Visual arts alum Vivian Chiu ’19 was an exhibiting artist in THIS SIDE UP, a group exhibition at the Houston Center for Contemporary Art that ran from January 24 to May 4, 2024.

Writing alum Aaron Poochigian’s '16 verse novel, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage, in which a mouthy and seemingly unkillable FBI agent is back for more adventures, was released by Etruscan Press.

Writing alum Alexandra Kleeman '12 was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Our Son, produced by Film alum Alex Peace 17’ will screen at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Writing alum Alla Vilnyanskaya’s '18 book Void was reviewed in Mad Poets Society. 

The American premiere of Theatre alum Anchuli Felicia King's '18 Golden Shield opened May 17, 2022. The cast includes Theatre alum Fang Du '18 (THEA).

Theatre alum Anika Chapin '14 became the Director of Artistic Development at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.

Theatre alum Anna Jastrzembski ‘19 co-created FEAST, hosted by The Tank.

Murina, directed by Film alum Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović '17 and co-written by Antoneta & Film alum Frank Graziano '19, won the Camera d’Or upon its 2021 Cannes premiere and was acquired for North American distribution by Kino Lorber. 

Writing alum Baba Badji '15 was interviewed as part of the School of the Arts’s A Poet's Life series.

Writing alum Basie Allen’s '19 poem "One Last Wish for Warmer Kisses" was published in The Brooklyn Review.

Writing alum Basie Allen’s '19 debut poetry collection Palm-Lined with Potience was featured in The New York Times Book Review.

Writing alum Becky Shirley’s '19 fiction piece "Still Life" was published in Joyland Magazine.

Writing alum Calvin Atwood '19 published a fiction piece titled “The Fearful 6th Grader” in Apocalypse Confidential. 

Writing alum Christopher Kazar Janigian '17 published two poems in the twenty-second issue of Blazing Stadium.

Theatre alum Daaimah Mubashshir's ’15 Room Enough (For Us All) ran at the 2022 Pipeline Festival and was directed by Theatre alum Katherine Wilkinson ’19.

Writing alum Daniel Felsenthal ‘15 published a review titled “Renée Stout Wields Illegibility as a Form of Resistance” in Frieze. 

Writing alum Daniel Felsenthal '15 reviewed Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel Checkout 19.

Film alum David Gutnik '12 returns to the 2023 Tribeca Festival with his new documentary, Rule of Two Walls, a raw, atmospheric portrait of today’s Ukraine through the lens of the artists who have chosen to stay.

Writing alum Dolapo Demuren’s '17 was spotlighted at The Adroit Journal, at which he is Managing Editor.

An article by Writing alum Eitan Nechin '19, “Overlooked No More: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, Writer of Levantine Identity”, was published in The New York Times.

Writing alum E.J. Koh '13 won a 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for her memoir, The Magical Language of Others. Koh placed first in the category of "Creative Writing: Prose."

Writing alum E.J. Koh '13 joined the writing team of the Apple TV+ series Pachinko.

Mon Père, Le Diable, directed by Film alum Ellie Foumbi '17 screened at the Tribeca Festival.

Writing alum Elina Alter’s '16 translation of Olga Bragina's "There's No Getting Out" can be read in Words Without Borders.

Writing alum Erin Pesut '15 published a poem titled “cuss” in Whale Road Review.

Film alum Francisca Alegria ’16 is one of eight participants selected by the Sundance Institute for the fifth annual Momentum Fellowship. 

Film alum Francisca Alegria ’16  signed a distribution deal with Kino Lorber for her 2022 debut feature The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future. The film co-written & directed by Alegria and co-produced by Film alum Shrihari Sathe '09 releases theatrically on May 19 at QUAD Cinema in New York and at Landmark NuArt in Los Angeles followed by other cities.

Writing alum Francisco González '19 won an O. Henry Prize for his short story "Clean Teen."

Theatre alum Freddie Fulton '18 was an understudy for Confederates by Dominique Morriseau, which ran at Signature Theatre March 8–April 24, 2022.

A Woman of No Importance, written & directed by Film alum Gauri Adelkar '19  and executive produced by Film alum Apoorva Charan '18 screened at the CINEJOY Virtual Fest April 2022 and at the Atlanta Film Festival April 2022.

Writing alum Gavin Thomson’s '19 short story "Beelzebub's Kiss" was published in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century.

Theatre alum Gethsemane Herron-Coward's ’19 Kin ran at the 2022 Pipeline Festival.

Theatre alum Harrison David Rivers '09 play When Last We Flew ran at Out Front Theatre Company.

Writing alum Harrison Hill '19 interviewed Harvey Fierstein in GQ.

Theatre alum Inés Braun’s '17 play All the Lonely Women was performed at the Global Forms Theater Festival, June 2–4, 2022.

Writing alum Jack Lowery’s '19 It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic has been published by Bold Type Books.

Visual Arts alum Jackson Polys ’15’s exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World is running at the MoMA until July 8, 2023. 

Stay Awake, the Berlinale award-winning feature film, written & directed by Film alum Jamie Sisley '15, produced by Film alum Shrihari Sathe '09, and co-produced by Film alumni Rob Cristiano '13, Sarah Dorman Sveen '15, and Alvaro Valente '14, opens theatrically on May 19 at Film Forum in New York and on May 25 at Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles followed by other cities across the US.

Columbia University Entertainment hosts a roundtable discussion with game creatives Writing alum Jennifer Estaris '06, Film MFA alum Iesh Thapar ’17, and guest speaker Graham McNeill, moderated by Film MFA alum Peter Forbes ’21.

Writing alum Jessamine Chan '12 is nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, presented to a “debut novel of exceptional literary merit by an American author.”

Writing alum Jesse Sposato '16 published a feature titled “Meet the New Class of Politicians Challenging the Status Quo” in InStyle.

Visual Arts alum Jessica Segall '10 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Theatre alum Jillian Walker's '17 one-night only performance titled Surrender, is the night played at Ars Nova and Ars Nova Supra on April 27, 2022 at 7PM.

Writing alum Julia Bosson '15 was recently featured in a profile in Der Tagesspiegel.

Visual Arts alum Julia Phillips '15 has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Chicago Artadia Award.

Sound Art alum Kamari Carter’s '19 solo exhibition Phantom Power runs from April 6th to May 13th at the Microscope Gallery, New York. 

Theatre alum Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. '14 was named the Executive Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard.

From Fish To Moon, written & directed by Film alum Kevin Contento '18 premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the Berlinale Shorts program. 

Naked Gardens, which boasts Film alum Kevin Contento '18 as its assistant editor and assistant sound recordist screened at the Tribeca Festival.

WarnerMedia Access unveiled its new Showrunner Program in spring 2022, and Film alum Kevin Lau ’13 was among the members of the inaugural cohort.

Visual Arts alum Lea Cetera’s ’12 work is being featured in a new international exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery called Design for Life: Art and Architecture - Part 1.

Theatre alum Liba Vaynberg’s ‘13 play The Gett will have its world premiere at the Rattlestick Theatre on November 9, 2022.

Film alum Lizzie Rose '17 co-wrote an episode of Russian Doll titled “Station to Station.”

Theatre alum Lynn Spector '15 was on the creative team of the new musical Paradise Square, which ran at the Barrymore Theatre.

Flight, a novel by writing alum Lynn Steger Strong '14,  was published in November 2022.

Theater alum Marc Atkinson Borrull '16 is directing the first major revival of Enda Walsh's Bedbound starring Colm Meaney and his daughter Brenda Meaney. The play runs from 14-29 July at the Galway International Arts Festival and later in August at 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin. 

Film alum Maggie Briggs '19 participated in the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Writers’ Studio Class of 2022.

Theatre alum Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 directed the Irish premiere of Nick Payne’s Constellations at Dublin’s historic Gate Theatre in May 2022. 

Theatre alum Marcel Spears ’15 plays the role of Marty Butler on The Neighborhood, viewable on CBS and Paramount+.

Theatre alum Marcel Spears '15 starred in The Public Theater and National Black Theatre's production of Fat Ham by James Ijames. He's starring as Juicy in Fat Ham at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway until June 25.

Writing alum Matt Gallagher '13 published an essay in Esquire: "Notes from Lviv."

Writing alum Matthew Gellman '18 published a poem called "Replica" in Narrative Magazine.

Writing alum Matthew Gellman ’18 wins the BOA Editions’ 22nd Annual A. Poulin, Jr. for their manuscript titled BEFORELIGHT.

Eulalia Books published the long-awaited poetry debut, Cold, of Writing alum Meg Matich '15. 

Writing alum Meghan Gilligan '16 published a nonfiction piece titled "'C'mon, C'mon' and the Empathetic Films of Mike Mills" in The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Theater alum Mei Ann Teo '14 directed 7 Minutes, which played at HERE Arts Center from March 17–April 10, 2022.

Visual Arts alum Michael Hewson '16 (VASA) was featured in Naarm-based curator and researcher Rosemary Forde's "Rocks on Wheels and Flying Shoes." In this piece, Rosemary explores the art-historical and civic context in which artist Mike Hewson’s multi-year, City Council-backed public playground in Naarm Melbourne, Rocks on Wheels, has landed.

Theatre alum Michael Walek ’14 is a co-producer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Strange Loop. 

#SOPHYGRAY, the latest project of Visual Arts alum Nadja Verena Marcin '10, is part of the Platform Glitch Aesthetics 2023 at Digitalvilla.

Film alum Nathan Floody '12 served as an editor for Life & Beth and for Girls5eva.

Visual Arts alum Pamela Council '14 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Writing alum Paul McAdory '19 recently published an essay in Gawker.

Writing alum Rachel Christina McConnell '18 published a fiction piece called "Jailbait" in Minerva Rising.

Adjunct Professor and Theatre alum Robert O’Hara ’96 directed Richard III for The Public Theatre’s free Shakespeare in the Park series summer 2022 in New York City. 

Film and Media Studies alum Ricky D’Ambrose ’12 was selected to participate in the 51st iteration of the New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) festival from Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

Joyland, written and directed by Film alum Saim Sadiq '19, co-written by Film alum Maggie Briggs '19 and produced by Film alum Apoorva Charan '18, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, as part of the Un Certain Regard program. The film won Best International Film at 2023 the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was the first entry from Pakistan to be shortlisted for the Best International Feature Oscar®.

Theatre alum Sam Chanse's ’12 play What You Are Now ran at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Visual Arts alum Samantha Nye '18 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Writing alum Sasha Wolff '17 was named a finalist for the 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award for The Boy Bandit. 

Writing alum Sasha Wolff '17 published her short story "Treasure Girl" in Parhelion Literary Magazine. 

LaRoy, written and directed by Film alum Shane Atkinson ‘13, will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Smoking Tigers, written & directed by Film alum So Young Shelly Yo '18 will screen at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Anonymity Is Life by writing alum Sola Saar ’19 is among the finalists for The Novel Prize from Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions. 

Visual Arts alum Sondra Perry ’15 was featured on the cover of Artforum.

Writing alum Tadhg Hoey '18 reviewed Percival Everett's The Trees in The Stinging Fly.

Theatre alum Tamera Tomakili '19 is starring in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which is now streaming on HBO.

The Girl of the Shining Snow, a feature project co-written & directed by Film alum Thais Drassinower '18, was chosen to participate in Film Independent's Screenwriting Lab.

Theatre alum Tyne Rafaeli '14 participated in The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/23 season.

Death of Nintendo, written & produced by Film alum Valerie Castillo Martinez '16 and edited by Film alum Cyril Aris '17, is now streaming on MUBI.

Writing alum Yvonne Kendall '14 wrote a piece in The Music City Review, reporting on a performance of the Nashville Symphony.

Writing alum Yvonne Woon ’10 published a young adult novel titled My Flawless Life with HarperCollins.

Theatre alum Andrew Garman ’00 is a cast member in Jordan Harrison's The Antiquities, which opened at Playwrights Horizons on February 4 and will continue to show through February 23.

The Creative Lives Film Series was presented by Grace Bello and Film alum Bill Gerrard ’12 in memory of Writing alum David Burr Gerrard ’07.

Writing alum Bryan VanDyke ’00 published his debut novel, In Our Likeness, in September 2024.

Theatre alum Gisela Cardenas ’04 directed Mozart's Così fan tutte for Saratoga Opera from June to July 2024.

Writing alum Holly Brickley ’05 published her new novel, Deep Cuts, in February 2025.

Theatre alum Isaac Hirotsu Woofter ’06 was the writer, director, and producer of BOUND, a thrilling crime-drama that brings awareness to the worldwide mental health crises.

Visual Arts alum Jaqueline Cedar’s ’09 work was presented at MAKERs and MOVERs in Greenwich, CT. 

Theatre alum Kim Weild ’07 began a residency with The Apothetae at The Public Theater in NYC to work on the project, “Upon Your Imaginary Forces.”

Theatre alum Kyle Haden ’02 received an award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play from the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association for his role in Barrington Stage Company’s Primary Trust  by Eboni Booth. He also directed The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly at City Theatre Company and played a role in the animated short film Where the Deer Sleep.

The Trojans, a musical written by Theatre alum Leegrid Stevens ’09, played at The Cell Theatre from March 19 to April 19.

Theatre alum Nadia Foskolou ’08 published her essay, "Central Park as if it were the first time," in the Greek newspaper TA NEA.

Visual Arts alum Natalie Beall ’09 is a featured artist at the Round Peg, Square Hole exhibit showing at Ortega y Gasset Projects until December 15, 2024.

The non-profit organization Moravian Beauty presents the exhibition, Noah Breuer: Návrat (Return), the solo exhibition of Visual Arts alum Noah Breuer ’07, from September 28, 2024 to March 16, 2025 at Havlíček's Villa in Breclav, Czech Republic.

Writing alum Nova Ren Suma ’02 published Wake the Wild Creatures, a young adult novel about a girl who plots her way back to her hidden mountaintop home after her mother’s arrest for murder, on May 6.

Film alum Rainn Wilson ’09 published his debut novel, a comic dystopia titled Situation Nowhere, on March 25.

Writing alum Dr. Ravi Shankar ’00 taught an online workshop at Poets House.

The Bear Wrestler, a novel by Writing alum Robert Ostrom ’08, was published by Saturnalia Books on March 15, 2025.

Writing alum Snowden Wright’s ’09 third novel, The Queen City Detective Agency, was published by HarperCollins on August 13, 2024.

What We Do Is Secret, a novel by Writing alum Thorn Hillsbery ’09, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Fiction and was optioned for a feature-length film.

Columbia University Entertainment, in partnership with the Black Alumni Council, hosted a second Showrunners Panel the evening of Monday, June 26 in Beverly Hills—this time with Courtney Lilly (CC '97)(ABC's Black-ish) and Raamla Mohamed (CC '03) (Onyx Collective's Reasonable Doubt). The panel will be moderated by Theatre alum Chris Maddox '03 (Writer/Producer: CW's Dynasty, ABC's A Million Little Things), and will cover their professional journeys and creative process. 

Visual arts alum Derrick Adams '03 was profiled by Galerie magazine in his Crown Heights studio. 

Theatre alum Harrison David Rivers ’09 writes The Salvagers at Yale Rep.

Theatre alum Jocelyn Bioh '08 writes Jaja's African Hair Braiding at Manhattan Theatre Club. 

José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes '03 published a poem titled “Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader” in The Slowdown.  

Theatre alum Kyle Haden '02 directed Parental Advisory: a breakbeat play, which ran from September 26 to October 29, 2023, at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Stiemke Studio. 

Under the title Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, visual arts alum Paula Wilson '05 showcased paintings, prints, collages and videos in her solo exhibit at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College from July to December 2023. 

Theatre alum Pirronne Yousefzadeh '09 directed The Ants at Geffen Playhouse.

Theatre alum Rachel Chavkin ’08 directed Gatsby at American Repertory Theater.

Theatre alum Saheem Ali '07 directs Fat Ham at Geffen Playhouse and Buena Vista Social Club at Atlantic Theater.

Visual Arts alum Vesna Pavlović's ’07 work is being featured in the Woven Wind exhibition at Hiram Van Gordon Gallery (Nashville, Tennessee) until June 9. 

Theatre alum Barbara Whitman ’05 produced Good Night, Oscar.

Writing alum Beth Raymer’s ’08 debut novel Fireworks Every Night made Oprah Daily’s Top Ten Novels of 2023. 

Radical, written and directed by Film alum Christopher Zalla ’04 and produced by Film alum Ben Odell ’04, won the Festival Favorite Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Film alum Frédéric Tcheng ’07 co-directed and co-wrote Invisible Beauty, a documentary about Bethann Hardison, the first Black woman to own a racially diverse modeling agency. The film, made in collaboration with Hardison herself, was released nationwide by Magnolia Pictures on September 22, 2023. 

Visual arts alum Jaqueline Cedar ’09 had a solo exhibition on display at the Shelter Gallery in New York.

Visual Arts alum Jaqueline Cedar's ’09's work was featured in the group exhibition Imaginary Persons. The exhibition ran June 17—August 19, 2023 at the Good Naked Gallery in Chicago. 

Theatre alum Javier Antonio González ’06 devised and directed Inspired by French Cinema for Barnard's Theatre Department.

Film alum Jessica Levin ’00 served as an executive producer for the new limited TV series Class of ’09 (FX on Hulu). 

Film alum Jonathon Roessler ’07 wrote and produced the Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys.

Theatre alum Kareem Fahmy ’07 directed Martyna Majok's Sanctuary City at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. 

Film alum Ken Kristensen ’08 wrote an episode of The Continental: From the World of John Wick, which premiered on Peacock.

Theatre alum Kyle Haden ’02 directed Parental Advisory: a breakbeat play, which ran September 26–October 29, 2023 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Wisconsin.

A Love Letter to My Queer Pink Dress from a Baby Black Trans Femme Princess, a monologue by Theatre alum Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko ’09, was part of the PlayGround Experiment Monologue Festival #5. 

Visual Arts alum Paula Wilson’s ’05 new exhibition Toward the Sky’s Back Door was on view at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

Writing alum Rachel Kushner ’01 selected and presented the guest director program "Juvenile Court" by Frederick Wiseman at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival.

Writing alum Robert Isaacs ’02 published short stories in Hindsight Magazine and The First Line, as well as an essay with Salon.com.  

Writing alum Robert Isaacs ’02 won the 2022 Gabriele Rico Nonfiction Challenge (Reed Magazine, Issue 156) with an essay written during his time at SOA: "Growing Up Godless."

The Last Out, co-directed and produced by Film alum Sami Khan ’09, won the News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economy Documentary at the 44th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. 

Visual Arts alum Vesna Pavlović’s ’07 photography exhibit Stagecraft was on view at the Harriman Institute October 23—December 15, 2023.

Theatre alum Adam Tsekhman ’06 was a cast member in Netflix’s The Night Agent.

Writing alum Cynthia-Marie O’Brien ’09 published an essay, The holiness of asking for help, in America Magazine.

Theatre alum Donovan Christie Jr ’12 starred in the television series Perimeter on BET+ and co-starred in Envy on Lifetime.

The Madwomen of Paris, a novel by Writing alum Jennifer Epstein ’03, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Writing alums M. M. De Voe ’01 and Christina Chiu ’00 moderated a blowout in-person networking event for authors with kids, hosted by Pen Parentis.

The Salvagers, a play written by Theatre alum Harrison David Rivers ’09, celebrated its world premiere with a run at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy ’06 published a review of Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver in The Washington Post.

Visual Arts alum Jaqueline Cedar's ’09 work was featured at NADA Miami.

Jocelyn Bioh ’08 received five Tony Award nominations including Best Play for her play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.

Theatre alum Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 directed the first major revival of Enda Walsh's Bedbound, which was listed by The Guardian as one of the best pieces of theatre to stream internationally for the month of December, and named one of the top shows of 2023 in the UK and Ireland by The Stage.

Theatre alum Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko ’09 published a book titled Str8 Up Queer African.

Theatre alum Othello Pratt Jr ’00 played The Proprietor in Sondheim’s Assassins at The Spot.

Theatre alum Rachel Chavkin ’08 had two musicals running simultaneously on the same block—Hadestown and Lempicka occupying Broadway's Walter Kerr and Longacre Theatres, respectively, on either side of 48th St. 

Growing Up Godless, an essay by Writing alum Robert Isaacs ’02, won Reed Magazine’s Gabrielle Rico Challenge for Nonfiction.

Theatre alum Saheem Ali ’07 developed and directed Buena Vista Social Club, which ran from November 17, 2023—January 21, 2024 at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Bob Trevino Likes It, produced by Sean Mullin ’06, won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the SXSW Film Festival.

Theater alum Alice Reagan ’04 directs Evelyn Brown (A Diary) by María Irene Fornés at La MaMa's Downstairs Theater, May 19-June 4 2023. 

Rosema, a feature project directed by Film alum Angela Tucker '05 was chosen to participate in Film Independent's Amplifier Fellowship.

Theatre alum Barbara Whitman '05 was honored on May 9, 2022 at Page 73's 2022 Spring Benefit.

A Strange Loop, produced by alum and Dean's Council Member and Theatre alum Barbara Whitman '05,took home the 2022 Tony awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical. 

Radical was granted the Sundance Festival Favorite Award. Former Adjunct and Film alum Christopher Zalla '04 served as the writer and director, and Film alum Ben O’Dell '04 as the film’s producer. 

Guadalupe, co-written, directed and produced by Film alum David Barba ’05 and co-written and produced by Film alum James Pellerito ’05 screened at the San Diego Latino and Houston Latino Film Festivals in March 2022 and at the Brussels Short Film Festival in April 2022. Bésame, written and directed by Barba and produced by Pellerito screened at the Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival and at the Seattle International Film Festival in April 2022.

Six Phases of Forest Procession (for the Budding Bird Blind) by David Brooks '09 is exhibited at the Flora and Fauna exhibition in 1053 Gallery in New York. The exhibition ran until May 7, 2023 with a public reception on closing night. 

Writing alum David Gordon’s '06 novel The Wild Life is now available from Mysterious Press.

The Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) presented its annual Andrew Sarris Award to Canadian director, screenwriter, and Film alum Deborah Chow ’03.

Writing alum Diane Josefowicz’s '08 debut novel Ready, Set, Oh was published by Flexible Press.

Writing alum Dinaw Mengestu '05 (WRIT) was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Theatre alum Elenna Stauffer '04 published her play Hysterical! with Broadway Play Publishing and The Auntie Network, which was part of the virtual reading series at the Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol.

Film alum Frederic Tcheng’s ’07 film Invisible Beauty is playing at Tribeca Festival. 

Film alumni James Ponsoldt ’05  and William Graham ’06 are at the helm of Daisy Jones & The Six, a mesmerizing new musical drama released on Amazon Prime Video. 

Columbia University Entertainment hosts a roundtable discussion with game creatives Writing alum Jennifer Estaris '06, Film MFA alum Iesh Thapar ’17, and guest speaker Graham McNeill, moderated by Film MFA alum Peter Forbes ’21.

Theatre alumni Jocelyn Bioh '08 and Saheem Ali '07  are the playwright and director, respectively, of Goddess, which had its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on August 13, 2022.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing and Writing alum Joseph Fasano '08 has been embarking on a creative project through Twitter titled Poem for My Son. 

Theatre alum Josh Koenigsburg '09  participated in The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/23 season.

Visual Arts alum Kamrooz Aram '03  wins 2023-2024 Rome Prize.

Writing alum Kao Kalia Yang '05 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Writing alum Karen Moulding’s '01 piece "We Will Live Here Forever" was featured in KGB Bar Online Literary Review.

Writing alum M. M. De Voe ’01 published a new short story collection A Flash of Darkness. She will be celebrating the launch of her collection of cross-genre short fiction, A Flash of Darkness, with a Kafka-themed party on June 8. RSVP to attend at this link. 

Theatre alum Pavol Liska '05 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Writing alum Rebecca Donner '01 was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was also named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows.

The National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of their 2021 Awards. Writing alum Rebecca Donner ‘01 was awarded first place in the biography category for All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler.

Theatre alum Saheem Ali '07 was awarded this year's Joe A. Callaway Award for his work on Fat Ham. He also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play for Fat Ham. 

Film alum Sean Mullin '06 has written and directed a new documentary feature film titled It Aint’ Over chronicling the life of Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, one of baseball’s greatest superstars. The film screened at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Film alum Julian Robinson '08 co-produced and edited the film.

Stay Awake, the Berlinale award-winning feature film written & directed by Film alum Jamie Sisley '15, produced by Film alum Shrihari Sathe '09 and co-produced by Film alumni Rob Cristiano '13, Sarah Dorman Sveen '15  and Alvaro Valente '14  opens theatrically on May 19 at Film Forum in New York and on May 25 at Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles followed by other cities across the US.

The Pod Generation, written and directed by Film alum Sophie Barthes '03, won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Festival, a $20,000 cash award. ⁠

Visual Arts alum Tony Chirinos '03 was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Precipice, an exhibition by 2023 Guggenheim fellow and Visual Arts alum Tony Chirinos '03 runs at Transmitter gallery in New York until May 7, 2023.

Visual Arts alum Uri Aran's ‘07  first institutional exhibition in Ireland, Take This Dog For Example, is on view from March 31 to June 25, 2023 at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Visual Arts alum Uri Aran ’07’s exhibition “I'm a Restaurant” is at Andrew Kreps Gallery until June 24, 2023. 

Theatre alum Christian Parker ’98 served as dramaturg for the Bucks County Playhouse production of the new musical Hard Road to Heaven. 

The Fantasies of Future Things, a novel by Writing alum Doug Jones ’98, will be published in April 2025.

Looking for Andy Griffith, a book of creative nonfiction by Writing alum Evan Smith ’99, won the Southeastern Library Association Award for nonfiction.

Spy thriller meets participatory performance art in TRACES, a site-specific work created by Theatre alum Ivan Talijancic '98 in collaboration with playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski and featuring Theatre alum Erika Latta '97 in a leading role, presented by the Walker Art Center.

Writing alum Jeanne Marie Beaumont ’90 published her fifth book of poetry, Lessons with Scissors, with Tiger Bark Press.

Visual Arts alum Joan Linder ’96 opened Fulfillment, a solo exhibition, at Cristin Tierney Gallery in NYC on June 21 and remained on view through August 2, 2024. 

La Gloria, a feature film directed by Film alum J.T. Walker ’99 and co-written with Film alum Christopher Carl Young ’98, premiered at the Austin Film Festival.

Writing alum Mary Jo Bang ’98 co-translated A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English, with Yuki Tanaka.

The documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse!, for which Film alum Philip Dolin ’95 served as director, producer, and cinematographer, and Film alum Molly Bernstein ’96 served as director, producer, and editor, premiered at DOCNYC in November 2024 and won the Grand Jury Prize in its competition category. The film will open at Film Forum in New York on February 21, 2025 and will be broadcast on PBS American Masters in April 2025.

Theatre alum Rachel Murdy ’97 was a participant of a cabaret performance workshop at 92nd Street Y, as featured in The New York Times.

FRANK DARK, a book of poetry by Writing alum Stephen Massimilla ’96, was published by Barrow Street Press and won the 2023 American Book Festival Best Book Award and the North American Book Award. His co-edited anthology, STRONGER THAN FEAR: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, won the International Book Award, The ABF Best Book Award, and the IPPY Living Now Award.

Theatre alum Christian Parker ’98 dramaturgs Another Marriage at Steppenwolf.

Film alum Bertha Bay-Sa Pan ’97 was elected as Co-Chair of the Directors Guild of America's Eastern Diversity Steering Committee.

Writing alum E.J. McAdams ’98 published a book of poetry titled Last with BlazeVOX. 

Writing alum and faculty member Heidi Julavits ’96 published her memoir Directions to Myself.

Writing alum Jeff McMahon ’98 read new work at Neilma Sidney Theatre.

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror, a four-part documentary series co-produced by Film alum Kimberly Peirce ’96, was nominated for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary at the 44th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. 

Writing alum Moira Egan ’92 won the Raiziss/De Palchi Fellowship for her translation of Letters of Black Fire by Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelios into English. 

Film alum and faculty member Ramin Bahrani ’96 directed the short documentary If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis, which screened at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival. 

Writing alum Barbara Tran ’92 published a book of poems titled Precedented Parroting and released Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct, a short film and VR experience that premiered at SXSW.

Film alum Bertha Pan ’97 was a SXSW panel speaker on Understanding Artist Residencies & Retreats for Filmmakers on March 10, 2024.

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, a film directed by Brian Lindstrom ’91 and Andy Brown ’91 and produced by Peter Kenney ’91, opened April 11th at the IFC Center and elsewhere nationwide.

Writing alum Claudia Rankine ’93 inaugurated the Speak Now Series at Columbia School of the Arts.

The Land is a Body, a solo exhibition by Visual Arts alum Colin Hunt ’98, was on view at Hirschl and Adler Modern from April 18 to May 24, 2024.

Fish, a play written by Theatre alum Kia Corthron ’92, premiered at Theatre Row and ran from March 19 to April 20, 2024.

Theatre alum Heather Alicia Simms ’96 acted in the critically acclaimed Broadway show Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch starring Leslie Odom, Jr. 

Lisa-Erika James ’99 received a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award to work with education partners in Morocco.

Writing alum Regine Rayevsky Fisher ’93 published a collection of short stories, Dance Me To The End Of Love: Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Theatre alum Robert O’Hara ’96 directed X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.

Theatre alum Robert O’Hara ’96 directed Jelly’s Last Jam at New York City Center.

Theatre alum Buffy Aakaash's '94 chapbook of "how to" poems Untangling the Knots was published by Kelsay Books in December of 2022, and was recently nominated for the Vermont Poetry Prize.

Film alum James Mangold '99 will direct and produce an upcoming Buster Keaton biopic.

The Swimmers, a novel by Writing alum Julie Otsuka '94, is available for purchase.

Writing alumn Mark Wunderlich '94 was interviewed as part of the School of the Arts's A Poet's Life series.

Theatre alum Sheri Wilner ‘99 was named Associate Chair and Director of MFA Playwriting at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.

Writing alum Dr. K.T. Korngold ’89 earned an Ed.D. in Montessori Studies from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls for her dissertation, “Agency Piccolo in the Montessori Infant Environment: A Confirming Qualitative Case Study of the Presence of Infant Agency.”

Writing alum Elizabeth Harlan ’87 new novel Becoming Carly Klein was published by Spark Press in September 2024.

Writing alum Laura Smyth ’89 published her new poetry collection, Fox Dreams.

Not Just Any Flower, the short film by Film alum Terry Gruber ’89, was featured on the Planet Classroom YouTube channel and reviewed on CMRubinWorld.

Writing alum Kathy Fagan ’82 published her sixth collection of poems, Bad Hobby—a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.

A new novel by Film alum Krishna Candeth '88, All Stray Dogs Go to Heaven, was launched earlier this year at the World Book Fair in New Delhi.

Visual arts alum Midori Curtis '89 exhibited monoprints and woodblock prints for her 2023 exhibition, Improvisations, at the Knox Gallery in Monterey, Massachusetts. 

Visual arts alum Sue Johnson ’81 was featured in EAT ME!, an exhibition at Collar Works (Troy, NY) running until July 15, 2023. EAT ME! examines cultural, societal, and personal relationships with the things that we eat. 

Visual arts alum Sue Johnson ’81 had an exhibition, External Reflections| Internal Identities, at The Delaware Contemporary until August 27, 2023.

Theatre alum Hal Luftig ’84 produced the plays Here Lies Love and Life of Pi. 

Visual Arts alum Pamela Bramble's ’86 show Excavations opened December 1, 2023 and will run through January 13, 2024 at Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT. 

The Delaware Contemporary hosted a joint exhibition by Visual Arts alum Sue Johnson ’81 and Constance McBride, entitled External Reflections | Internal Identities, which was on view June 9—August 27, 2023.

Live from the Mood Board, a poetry collection by Writing alum Candice Reffe ’85, received the 2018 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award and was published in 2019.

Writing alum Con Lehane ’82 published Murder at the College Library, the sixth book in the 42nd Street Library Mystery series.

Writing alum Michele Herman ’85 published a poem in The Hudson Review and an article on LitHub.

Visual Arts alum Nancy Cohen ’84 exhibited a solo show The State We're In and curated a group show Drawing on Memory, including Visual Arts alum Alexandra Athanassiades ’84, both of which opened at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts on March 28th. 

Writing alum Parul Hinzen ’89 won the AWP Prize for the Novel for her debut novel, Inside the Mirror, and also published a short story titled "Geronimo!" in Ploughshares.

Writing alum Ronald Okuaki Lieber ’83 published a book of poetry titled The Long Journey Out.

Visual Arts alum Wenda Habenicht's ’81 solo exhibition ran from October 2, 2023 to January 3, 2024 at the 4 Elements Studio Satellite Gallery in Utica, NY. 

Theatre alum Adam Kraar's '87  play The Karpovsky Variations ran from May 13 through May 29, 2022 at ART/NY's Gural Theater.

Somewhere in Queens, produced by Film alum Albert Berger '83 screened at the Tribeca Festival.

Writing alum Mark Alpert’s '84 eleventh novel, The Doomsday Show, was published on October 4, 2022. The Doomsday Show is a fast-paced climate-fiction thriller with gun battles and killer drones and speedboat chases across New York Harbor.

Writing alum Michael Hickins '86 (CC '83) published his memoir, The Silk Factory: Finding Threads of My Family's True Holocaust Story (Holocaust Heritage).

Writing alum Helen Schulman’s ’86 new book Lucky Dogs will be released June 6, 2023.

Writing alum Jeff Elzinga ’78 published his second novel, Pigeon Falls, on April 8.

The Friend and The Room Next Door, two films based on books by Writing alum Sigrid Nunez ’75, both premiered at NYFF this fall.

Visual arts alum Jerilyn Jurinek ’75 was featured on the Wassard Elea Retreat Spaces blog. The blog post covers Jerilyn's experiences of living and drawing in Ascea and features photos of drawings made during that period.

Writing alum Terese Svoboda ’78 published the short story “The Long Swim,” which won the Juniper Prize. Her forthcoming novel Roxy and Coco will be released in 2024.

Writing alum Alice K. Boatwright ’72 published In the Life Ever After, the third book in her award-winning Ellie Kent mystery series.

Writing alum Irene Papoulis ’79 published a book on essay writing titled The Essays Only You Can Write.

Theatre alum John Zeeb ’71 created an interactive play titled Change of Plans.

Roxy and Coco and The Long Swim, a novel and a story collection by Writing alum Terese Svoboda ’78, were reviewed by Hillary Leichter in The New York Times.

Writing alum Allison Funk '78 was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Writing alum Steve Schwartz ’73 and his wife Paula Mae, alongside Nick Wechsler and Matt Jackson, produced the spy thriller/love story All the Old Knives, which debuted in select theaters and Amazon Prime Video on April 8, 2022.

Writing alum Terese Svoboda '78 will have Dog on Fire, her seventh book of fiction, published March 7, 2023, her fourth with U. of Nebraska Press, and her fourth book in five years in four genres. She will also publish her eighth book of fiction with WVU Press in 2024.