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Adjunct Associate Professor Adam Wilson ’09 has co-written the screenplay for the upcoming film Last Days of Basic Cable alongside Justin Taylor. Film alumnus Albert Berger ’83 is also attached to the project as one of the film's producers.

Associate Professor Lynn Nottage is set to adapt the 1933 novel Imitation of Life into a stage musical alongside John Legend, according to Playbill

Writing alumnus Harold Rogers ’21 has published his first novel, Tropicália, released by Atria Books earlier this month.

In The Light Room, the School of the Arts writing professor captures both the joy and the exhaustion of motherhood.

Visual Arts Alumna Tara Geer ’97 is showcasing her drawing installation, Sown in the Half Light, at the Arts Center at Duck Creek, in Long Island.

Chris Zalla ’04 is the writer and director of Radical, which will be released theatrically in the US and Mexico on October 20, 2023. The film was produced through 3Pas Studios, co-founded by Ben Odell ’04.

Holliday, the newest book written by Matthew Di Paoli ’08, was published on July 3, 2023.

Heidi Julavits explores this and other questions in her memoir, Directions to Myself.

Laura from the Valley, a debut novel from Mark Lopez ’20, will be published by Running Wild Press on September 12, 2023.

Theatre alumna Pirronne Yousefzadeh ’09 is the director of The Ants, a new play now on stage at Geffen Playhouse.

Dramaturgy Concentration Head and Professor of Professional Practice Christian Parker ’98 is currently the dramaturg on, Another Marriage, running at the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago through July 30, 2023.

Writing alumnus Francisco González ’19 has been awarded a 2023 Steinbeck Fellowship.

Palm Sunday, a thesis film directed by Wes Andre Goodrich ’23 and produced by Patrick Nichols ’22, was recently named a student film finalist for The Wrap’s 2023 Shortlist Film Festival.

Visual Arts alumna Dineo Seshee Bopape ’10 has launched Projects: Dineo SesheeBopape, her first solo museum exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).