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As part of their ongoing growth strategy, founders Eugenio Derbez and alumnus Ben Odell '04 of 3Pas have hired alumnus Jorge Alfaro '17 as manager of Spanish-language content.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
American Spy by writing alumna Lauren Wilkinson '13 comes out next week. Wilkinson was been called a writer to watch in 2019 by Publisher’s Weekly.
Writing alumna Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah '11 received the American Mosaic Journalism Prize recently, an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000 awarded to freelance journalists for excellence in long-form, narrative, or deep reporting about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the American landscape.
Alumna Melis Aker ’18 joins alumna Julia May Jonas '12 as a new member of the Ars Nova Plays Group 2019.
The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation by professor Brian Kulick, published by Routeladge, is on sale now. The book begins with a look at theater’s origins in Ancient Greece. Next, it moves on to examine the history and nature of theater, from Agamemnon to Angels in America, through theater’s use of stage directions, revealing the many unspoken languages that are employed to communicate with its audiences. Finally, it looks at theater’s ever-shifting strategies of engendering fellow-feeling through the use of…
Jeffrey Page’s third-year directing thesis The Woman / The Man: An Evening of Two One-Act Plays premieres next week. The evening is a theatrical double feature comprised of two Obie Award-winning plays: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead. Written nearly thirty years apart, these two pieces remain as haunting and relevant as the day each was written.
Everything’s Fine: A Panic Attack in D Major, written and directed by alumnus Zack Morrison '18 and produced by alumna Taylor Ortega '18 was nominated for Best Comedy at the 39th College Television Awards. The goal of these awards is “to highlight the next generation of creators and executives within the industry” as described by the chair of the Television Academy Foundation. The 25 nominees were selected from over 600 productions submitted by 174 colleges and universities nationwide. Designed to emulate the Emmys, the student entries are judged online by active…
New York Stage and Film, a non-profit dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development of new works for theater and film, announced that Christopher Burney ’94 will become its next Artistic Director.
Current student Cameron Bruce Nelson’s first feature, Some Beasts, is available for purchase on DVD.
Alumna Alexandra Watson '15 will receive the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing for her high literary stewardship as the editor of Apogee, a journal of literature and art, foregrounding writers of color and engaging with issues of race, gender, and class, including Apogee‘s “Alternate Canon” series.
Current nonfiction writing student Jon-Marc McDonald’s play, Relatively Conscious, premiered last year. He was recently interviewed by The Dramatist magazine.
Alumni Ophelia Harutyunyan '15 and Bora Kim '11, current student Selman Nacar, and faculty members Bette Gordon and Sandra Schulberg are all heading to the 2019 Berlinale Film Festival.
Director of the MFA Acting Program and Associate Professor James Calleri is also the co-owner of Calleri Casting. The company is responsible casting the new Apple series, Dickinson, a web television series created by Alena Smith and produced by Apple's worldwide video programming division. The half hour comedy series “is set during Emily Dickinson’s era with a modern sensibility and tone. It takes viewers into the world of Emily, audaciously exploring the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn’t…