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Where There’s Smoke, an immersive storytelling experience created by Associate Professor Lance Weiler, is on view now through October 1, 2023 at ArtYard Gallery in New Jersey.

Film student Aisha Amin’s movie Rumi was featured on the popular online film recommendation site, Short of the Week. The film tells the story of Rumi, an aspiring actress who is discovered by a talent agent and attends an open casting call, only to confront the problematic aspects of the industry.

From September 15 to 30, 2023, Theatre alumnae Annie Jin Wang ’20 and Nana Dakin ’18 will share in-process productions of their most recent work developed in the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, part of Soho Rep, a civic theater that produces innovative plays.

The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival has announced the winners of its 2023 competition, and current playwriting student Darius M. Buckley is among the honorees.

Film alumna Nic Yulo '18 has published a new picture book with Penguin Random House.

Theatre alumnus Colm Summers ’22 is taking the helm as director of Every Brilliant Thing at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, California.

Mona Simpson ’85 returns with a new novel, Commitment, published by Knopf earlier this spring.

Presented by James Fuentes Gallery in New York, Metropolis: 36 Views of New York is a new solo exhibition by Visual Arts alumnus Stipan Tadić ’20, on view now through September 5, 2023.

The Rachel Uffner Gallery is presenting Purell Night & Day, a captivating new exhibition by Visual Arts alumna Susan Chen ’20.

Theatre alumna Daaimah Mubashshir ’15 is set to co-host the exciting annual reading festival, (Writ)ual Mix Mixfest 2023, at the Atlantic Theater Company. This year, Mubashshir is not only co-hosting the festival but also sharing her work through a reading of The Immeasurable Want of Light, a play about a black, overweight artist coming of age in an alternate universe. 

Film Student Helēna Šania Volbeta has been awarded the 2023-2024 Jānis Grundmanis Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship for Study in the US for the upcoming year.

Sarah-Jane Collins ’18 is the author of Radiant Heat, a new novel set to be published by Berkley Books on January 23, 2024.

The Sundance Institute has named the participants of both their Producers Lab and Producers Intensive and two Film alumni are among the 2023 cohort: Tony Yang '20 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Valerie Castillo Martinez '16.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania will present When the Children Come Home, the first major solo exhibition from Assistant Professor of Visual Art David Antonio Cruz in his hometown.

Writing alumna Tenzin Dickie ’14 has published The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays (Penguin, 2023), a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction.