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Animation Conversations is an interview series with Film faculty, students, and alumni where we discuss working as screenwriters, directors, and producers in the animation industry.

Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Film Jack Lechner about his diverse career, the innovative web series Group, and helping students unlock a story’s full potential. 

Alumnus Roberto Bentivegna ’10 co-wrote the screenplay for House of Gucci (2021).

Directing alum Benita de Wit ’16 just joined the Broadway production of Six: The Musical as the Resident Director. 

Acting alumni K.K. Moggie '07 and Luis Moreno '06 both star in Hillary Miller’s new comedy, Preparedness, presented by the Bushwick Starr and HERE. 

 

This month, Professor David Henry Hwang, Playwriting alumna Paola Alexandra Soto ’20, and Playwriting student Goldie E. Patrick introduced a newly formatted festival that brings theatre to a digital audio environment.

Alumna Deborah Chow '03 currently directs the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+.

Recent graduates of the Visual Arts MFA are featured  in a new online exhibition with New York-based Project Gallery V. Ivana Carman ’21, Kevin Claiborne ’21, Noga Cohen ’21, and Keli Safia Maksud ’21 are among the thirteen artists whose works are on display in an exhibition curated by alumna Farah Mohammad ’21.

Professor and alumna Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 is featured in two shows, one as part of the Newark Artist Collaboration and another alongside alumna Priscilla Aleman ‘19. 

Alumna Jasmin Freitas Tenucci '20 has been named Best Director at the Rio De Janeiro short film festival for her thesis film August Sky

A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor and alumnus Jay Deshpande '12 about the tools of self-expression, the joys and terrors of letting a poem enter the world, and how descriptive imagery can create a means for connection.

Constructing Futures is a biweekly series that features artists who use found materials, natural resources and the landscape to construct work that addresses the harsh realities of our ecological age.

The Live From Columbia series continues to turn out beautiful virtual performances from Morningside Campus, the latest installment of which featured the fascinating percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire, on November 9, 2021.

Art, Friends, and Watches: Gary Shteyngart In Conversation with Fred Savage

Dramaturgy student Kate Foster was the assistant director of Pankrác '45 in Washington, D.C. at The Atlas Performing Arts Center.