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Stage Management students Cassie Marie Cushing and Vanessa Rebeil produced On Teeth and Longing, an online benefit performance that streamed last week, December 10th.
Our Word recently hosted poet Tracy K. Smith '97 and fiction writer Paige Morris for a panel on translation, race, and gender called Translating Identity.
Alumna Cherien Dabis '04 is set to direct the feature film The Fighting Shirley Chisholm about the story behind Chisholm’s historical 1972 run for the US presidency. Dabis refreshes the project after it had already been in development at Amazon in 2018 with a different director attached.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Susan Bernofsky about her translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, how a single word can illuminate important artistic tendencies, and her approaches to teaching translation.
Kamari Carter ’19 and Julian Day '20 collaborated on the piece “BLISSVILLE” that is now being shown in a dark space group exhibition titled Edge of Light.
Belly of the Beast, a documentary produced by alumna Angela Tucker '05, had its premiere on PBS this week, and is now available to view on their site. The trailer is available here, and the link to watch the film is here.
Assistant Professor Aliza Nisenbaum’s paintings will be exhibited at Tate Liverpool in conjunction with a virtual event.
“XXYX Queer Africa: More Invisible” by Playwriting alumnus Nick Hadikwa Mwaluk ’09 has been included in The Best American Essays 2020, edited by André Aciman.
Professor of Professional Practice Richard Peña co-curated American Fringe with Livia Bloom Ingram.
The National Arts Club hosted an evening with Writing Professor Phillip Lopate ’64 (CC), accompanied by Vivian Gornick and Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss Lopate’s latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay.
Theatre alumna Ashley Tata ’12 is the director of Con Alma, a live digital performance of classic songs from the Mexican and Jazz tradition and original works by composer Paola Prestini and vocalist and composer Magos Herrera.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Kate Loewald , Founding Producer of The Play Company (PlayCo), and Theatre alumna Annie Wang ’20, PlayCo’s Communications and Marketing Manager, will assist in the presentation of the virtual performance This Is Who I Am via PlayCo’s collaboration with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
NPR's Book Concierge recently released its list of best books of 2020, naming several titles by School of the Arts alumni and faculty among them.