News
Sanaë Lemoine ’15 and Yvonne Woon ’10 (’06 CC) have been named 2022 Creative Writing Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Porter Fox recently published The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World with Little, Brown, and Company. The book is now available for purchase.
Running until November 20, 2021, the second installment of the Visual Arts Program 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition is now open at the Lenfest Center.
In balancing authenticity with readability, translators tackle a seemingly impossible art — and rarely receive enough credit.
Alumna Bat-Ami Rivlin ‘19 and current student Elzie Williams III are featured in Eponymous at M23 Gallery in New York City.
Adjunct Associate Professor Pamela Sneed has received the inaugural 2021 Black Queer|Art|Mentorship Award for Artists and Organizers.
Myth - The Go Between, a short film written and directed by alumna Alies Sluiter '20, won five awards at the South Australian Screen Awards, including Best Drama, Best Director and the Grand Jury Prize.
Broadway League recently announced that they have elected 13 new members to the Board of Governors. Among the newly elected members is Theatre Management and Producing alumna Christina Selby ’14.
A debut novel by alumna Jessamine Chan ’12 is on sale now in the US & Canada with Simon & Schuster. UK publication will follow on March 3, 2022.
Alumna Hope Dickson Leach '05 is set to direct a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A debut novel from alumna Kayla Maiuri ’16 is available for preorder from Riverhead Books.
You might not expect blood to be a recurring leitmotif in a show about a modern dance team of 13-year-olds, but Clare Barron’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dance Nation is unflinchingly visceral in its themes and imagery. At the Lenfest Center this past December, the play was performed with ravenous intensity by the MFA Acting Class of 2022.
Assistant Professor Wes Enzinna has been awarded the Richard J. Margolis Award for 2021.
Playwriting alum Sam Chanse ’12 is featured as one of five writers in The Public Theater’s new production, Out of Time. In this production, The Public in association with The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) presents a collection of brand-new monologues by five Asian American playwrights.
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust recently announced the names of the 10 outstanding playwrights who will be celebrated with the 2021 Steinberg Playwright Award.