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Seven Theatre alumni came together to create the new hit web series, Tuesday Nights. It is a true collaboration of minds, including creator Shiva Kalaiselvan '15 and fellow actors Julia Joyce-Barry '15, David Fierro '11, as well as playwrights Celine Song '14, Harrison Rivers '09 and Laura Zlatos '15, and dramaturg Jolene Noelle '15.
Producing alumnus and faculty mumber, Shrihari Sathe '09, won the Producers Award at the Spirit Awards Filmmakers Grant 2019. The 22nd annual Awards were presented at the Nominee Brunch on Saturday, January 5, 2019 in West Hollywood. The purpose of this award is to honor emerging producers who, "despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films,” as stated on the Film Independent website. As a recipient of this award, Sathe has become a Film Independent Fellow and received an unrestricted…
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S, a screenplay written by alumni David Light '02 and Joseph Raso '04 that premiered last year, was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for Children's Teleplay.
Aralık (Lacuna), a feature film written by current student Selman Nacar has been awarded a grant of 100,000 TL from the Malatya Film Platform. The Official Selections were announced at the 8th Malatya International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, two films by Alumni were nominated, Green Book, directed and co-written by writing alumnus Peter Farrelly '86 and Ralph Breaks the Internet co-directed and co-written by film alumnus Phil Johnston '04.
Current student Ellyn Gaydos is the recipient of the 2018 Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social-justice journalism.
Visual Arts Professor, Sarah Sze, currently has a solo exhibition at Gagosian Rome, which marks her first gallery exhibition in Italy following her participation in the Biennale di Venezia in 2013 (Triple Point, US Pavilion) and 2015. Her exhibition will through January 26, 2019.
Current student Kiyan Williams '19, and Alumni Asif Mian '18 and Hugh Hayden '18 have been selected to commission new work at The Shed, a new visual and performing arts center currently being built in Hudson Yards. They will showcase their work in The Shed’s black-box theater and open-air plaza beginning in late spring 2019.
PEN has announced its longlist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards.
Alumnus Jay Scheib '02 directs and alumna Benita de Wit '16 associate directs the tour of Bat Out of Hell a musical about Join Strat, the forever young leader of rebellious gang, The Lost, as he falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the tyrannical ruler of post-apocalyptic Obsidian. The production is currently finishing its critically acclaimed UK tour. The musical features many of Meat Loaf’s iconic hits including I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, and Paradise By The…
Alumnus Scott Ebersold '15 to direct and alumna Anika Chapin '14 to dramaturg a staged reading of The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians. When Prince Florizel learns that his father the King of Bohemia is dead, he seeks to escape the throne. He and his chaperone Colonel Geraldine are invited to join a secret society — The Suicide Club. Club members play a deadly card game nightly with higher stakes than the Prince has ever known. Realizing the deck is stacked against them, the Prince and Geraldine become inextricably linked…
In This Hope: A Pericles Project, a new play dramaturged by alumna Hannah Hessel Ratner ’11 and directed by Anna Brenner '11, is part play and part ritual. Led by an all-female/multi-cultural ensemble, the production mines a well known story to create something completely in the present. The those forced to flee a homeland and journey over the sea, experiencing great loss and sacrifice only to discover love and build a new life has been passed on since antiquity and still resonates to this day.
Alumna Samantha Chanse '12 has been awarded The Lark 2019-2020 Venturous Playwright Fellowship. Chanse will be awarded $50,000 over two years, as well as a Production Subsidy Grant of up to $50,000 to support a production of the play at a theater of her choosing. The fellowship supports the advancement of ambitious, risk-taking, and innovative plays by providing concurrent residencies for playwrights, and advocating for production of their plays by partner theaters.
Alumna Sondra Perry '15 was recently named the ninth winner of the Nam June Paik Award by the Kunststiftung NRW, the arts foundation founded by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1989. Perry received a $28,000 award in November at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. According to the website, “the renowned Nam June Paik Awards (established in 2002) [is conferred] for outstanding electronic and digital artworks that take risks, cross cultural boundaries and take an interdisciplinary approach in the spirit of the late pioneering artist Nam June…
Alumna Elif Uras '03 recently published her first monograph alongside a site-specific installation, The Source, in Instanbul, Turkey. Turkish-born, Uras is a painter and ceramicist whose site-specific installation, The Source, was realized under the leadership of Galerist as part of Kale Group’s 2018 project in support of ceramics in art and will be on view at a historic storefront in Istanbul between November 24 and December 30.