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Film Student Aisha Amin Selected for Black List Episodic Lab

Film student Aisha Amin was recently selected to participate in the The Black List and Women in Films (WIF) 2024 Episodic Lab, which prepares women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing.

Bicheng Liang ’21 and Yixuan Shao ’21, the artistic duo that comprises Alchemyverse, met in the Visual Arts + Sound Art Program at the School of the Arts.

From March 8 until April 20, 2024, the prestigious Rachel Uffner Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side will present Plan B, the second solo exhibition by Visual Arts Alumna Susan Chen ’20.

Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.

The 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close last weekend, and two films by School of the Arts filmmakers won big at the festival.

2024 Writers Guild Award Nominations have been announced, and several Columbia filmmakers have been nominated for their stellar work in film and television. 

Theatre alumna Cha Ramos '21, a fight directing specialist, brings her expertise to the Broadway stage in the highly anticipated musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's critically acclaimed bestseller, Water for Elephants, which premiered on February 24, 2024 at the Imperial Theatre.

Alumni Spotlights is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.

Climate change has been in our cultural discourse for decades, with artists often wielding their work to bring people’s attention to the state of the environment. Director and playwright Adam Marple ’10 is taking this idea to the next level, along with longtime collaborator, playwright Steven Gaultney ’10.

Winners of the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, and several Columbia filmmakers brought home major awards. 

 

 

 

Rankine read from her new work-in-progress ‘Triage’ and discussed the current political moment.

Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stories exploring womanhood and humanity that was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction last year.

Ghina Fawaz is an MFA student in the Theatre Program at School of the Arts. When she isn’t creating her own dramatic projects at Columbia, she is most likely in the audience at one of countless productions that take place all over the city.

Theatre Professor and Directing Concentration Head Anne Bogart has reunited with famed avant-garde La MaMa resident theatre group, Talking Band, to direct Existentialism, running through March 10, 2024.

Visual Arts alumna Anna Ting Möller ’23 is currently showcasing her solo exhibition, grafting, for that which grows and that which bars, at Tutu Gallery.

Ramin Bahrani discusses If Dreams Were Lightning with Wafaa El-Sadr.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Lance Weiler about the potential and challenges of generative AI, the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, and how discovering our own voice can lead to a more effective use of technology.

Winners of the 96th Academy Awards were announced last night, and projects by Columbia filmmakers took home awards. 

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm(Knopf, 2024), a debut essay collection by Writing alumna Emmeline Clein ’22, begins by asking the reader: “Have you ever seen a girl and wanted to possess her?”

In Splinters, her first memoir, Leslie Jamison explores her divorce and the birth of her daughter.

Moving Pictures, a solo show by Visual Arts alumna Nora Griffin '11, is currently on view at Fireman Gallery on the Lower East Side.

Claudia Rankine '93 discussed her work, the importance of dialogue with others, and the essentiality of the arts in a new speaker series.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham has published his debut novel, Great Expectations. Published by Hogarth Books, the novel follows a historic presidential campaign which changes the trajectory of the life of a young Black man. 

The NBC TV Writers Program has announced its newest cohort of eight writers, which includes Film alum Neda Jebelli '21 and Theatre alum Bixby Elliot '05.

Leila Philip ’91, a writer, journalist, and poet, spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America.

Theatre Professor and Head of the Directing Concentration Anne Bogart will receive the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Theatre alum Ryan Bogner ’15 will co-produce the first Broadway production and newest iteration of satirical musical revue, Forbidden Broadway, opening at the Hayes Theater this summer.

Second-year writing student Ashley D. Escobar was selected by Eileen Myles as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner for her poetry collection, Glib

L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles earlier this month. 

Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been named the first-ever artist in residence of the Prospect Park Alliance, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the city to manage the borough's second-largest green space. 

The results are in and two Columbia-affiliated projects were announced as winners at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

Selman Nacar '21, Claire Brooks '21, and Kunao Yan '23 have been selected to participate in the 53rd edition of the New Directors/New Films Festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

First and foremost a sculptor, Fishman makes small- and large-scale sculptures from biomaterials as varied as wood cellulose and tanned fish skins. Often, she uses bioplastics, which are biodegradable, compostable materials fabricated from a bio-based source. 

 

WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books this April. 

Film student Aisha Amin was recently selected to participate in the The Black List and Women in Films (WIF) 2024 Episodic Lab, which prepares women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing.

Theatre professor David Henry Hwang’s opera, An American Soldier, will premiere in New York this spring at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan.

To honor Rachel Chavkin '08’s prolific and versatile work, the city of New York officially renamed 48th Street “Chavkin Way” in a ceremony held on March 20 outside the Longacre Theatre.

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