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Three members of the School of the Arts community have received 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters. Poet Henri Cole ’82 won the Award of Merit Medal, which carries a $25,000 prize, and fiction writer Rachel Kushner ’01 won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, which carries a $20,000 prize; both graduated from the Writing Program. Theatre Professor Lynn Nottage received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature, which carries a $10,000 prize.
Catherine Lacey ‘10 has won a 2016 Whiting Award for Fiction. Lacey, author of the acclaimed novel Nobody Is Ever Missing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), has two books forthcoming from FSG: a second novel and a short story collection.
Numerous Columbia filmmakers will screen this year at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The crop of films selected for this year’s Tribeca truly show the collaborative nature of the Columbia film program: Each film has multiple alumni and faculty working in all facets of production.
The play tells the story of four members of the Tuskegee Airmen, who during World War II became the first African-American military aviators in United States history.
Nottage was honored with the prize for Master American Dramatist, and Lee received the prize for American Playwright in Mid-Career.
“Meet the Makers” is a profile series highlighting the experiences of current Film students and faculty here at Columbia. I recently sat down with Erlendur Sveinsson, a second-year Directing concentrate from Iceland, to get his take on life as a Columbia Film student.
Meet the Makers is an ongoing interview series highlighting current Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program students and faculty. I sat down with Markus Wulf, a second-year MFA film student, a few weeks ago to find out more about what brought him to the program.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Professor Ira Deutchman announced December 2 at Lincoln Center in New York that he will donate his entire archive to the University of Michigan's Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.
“Meet the Makers” is a profile series highlighting the experiences of current Film students and faculty members here at Columbia. I recently sat down with Chris Abeel, a second-year Creative Producing concentrate from New Jersey.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
St. Nicks Alliance and Arts@Renaissance announced the first biennial survey of work by second-year MFA students and recent graduates from across the five boroughs, titled NEW WORK NEW YORK.