Collaboration is a critical element of success for any arts professional. With the wide range of departments, interests, and talents found at Tisch, there is no better to time to being meeting and working with your future colleagues.
Want to learn about student clubs? Getting involved in student government? Maybe you're thinking about starting your own club? Find out more here, and at the links below!
NYU Engage is your one-stop-shop to find out all about the Tisch Student Clubs and Organizations. These groups are open to all Tisch students and are a great way to connect with peers who have similar interests, or to discover a brand new passion you didn't know existed!
Undergraduate Students: did you know that you can apply for a grant from Tisch to get your interdisciplinary project from the planning stage to a performance on-stage (or on screen or in exhibition) for the Tisch community? Learn more about the annual Profunds application process and start planning now!
Graduate Students: you, too, can apply for funding for a collaborative project via the Graduate Student Organization' Interdepartmental Grants. Visit the link for information about project requirements and how to apply for this annual grant.
The Tisch 48 Hour Film Festival is an annual event presented by TUSC in which self-selected teams participate to create a short film using specific prompts for character, prop, and line of dialogue. Teams have 48 hours to produce a film no more than 5 minutes in length which are then judged by various professors and administrators within the Tisch community. Finalists are screened at the Cantor Film Center.
Curricular
-CC&D Choreographers, Composers & Designers: (yearlong) taught by Sean Curran, & Andy Teirstein, Grad Musical Theater & Design Department collaboration
-Choreographers & Composers: taught by Andy Teirstein & Jeremy Nelson, Grad Music & Dance collaboration
-Digital Performance: (a curriculum course container for collaborations with ITP, Grad Film, Games) courses have included Dance Film with Grad Film Directors and MFA choreographers to make films, taught by Cari Ann Shim Sham at 111 2nd ave
-Choreographic Interventions: taught by Mimi Yin & Cari Ann Shim Sham and ITP students and undergrad and grad Dance students to create interactive projects at 111 2nd ave
-Mocap for Dance Avatars taught by Kat Sullivan Games and Matt Romein ITP & Cari Ann Shim Sham at Metrotech in Brooklyn
-Science of Movement: Taught by Betsy Coker
-Filming the Moving Body Taught by Cari Ann Shim Sham
-Video Art Taught by Cari Ann Shim Sham
Non-Curricular/Events
-Big Screens: our MFA students collaborate as choreographers and performers for the projects
-Dance and Technology: An annual production based collaboration, have included ITP, Film & TV, English, Film Studies, Recorded Music, Steinhardt, Gallatin, Design, Costume, & Grad Acting.
Curricular
-BFA Playwriting Thesis/New Play Readings: an elective course that collaborates with Dramatic Writing’s BFA Playwriting Thesis class. The actors workshop the writers’ thesis scripts over the course of the semester. Taught by Daniel Spector
-Classical Studio Workshops: Students of The Classical Studio, led by Daniel Spector, collaborate each December with the Playwriting II students, workshopping excerpts of the writers’ material. These sessions are directed by alumni of The Classical Studio.
-Directing the Camera: A practical craft workshop that emphasizes the visual realization of dramatic scripts and the relationship between performer and camera. It is a directing class and not a camera class. Collaboration with UGFTV
-New Studio on Broadway Workshop: students participate in a course, as well as a workshop production alongside GMTW students, workshopping the writers’ material. Kent Gash leads this on the NSB side.
Non-Curricular / Events
-24-Hour Play Festival. Dramatic Writing students and Drama students (mostly first-years) are randomly grouped into companies and given 24 hours to produce an original play based on a theme. Produced by Daniel Spector
-Playground Student Group: a weekly collaborative development space for writers, actors and directors
-Broke People Play Festival: a series of student written performances and festivals
-Episodic Television Thesis: Undergraduate Dramatic Writing Thesis classes regularly use Undergrad Acting students in table reads. Organized by Daniel Spector
-Casting Mixers with UFGTV, where students from both programs meet each other in a social/artistic speed-dating atmosphere.
-Community Day: Drama and Dance students participate in cohabitated classes for Community Day, spearheaded by Michael McElroy.
-Tisch Tac Toe: Community Day collaboration between Drama and UGFTV
Curricular
-Theatricality: (Graduate Students) An investigation into various theatrical forms as they exist in the outside world (e.g., courtrooms, magic shows, religious rituals) and how they translate to stage work. This class has a crossover class with Grad Acting.
-Collaboration Reloaded: (Graduate Students) Dramatic Writing students, Graduate Acting students, directors and designers work together and learn how to communicate with each other under the tutelage of The Public Theatre’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Suzan-Lori Parks.
Non-Curricular/Events
-24-Hour Play Festival. Dramatic Writing students and Drama students (mostly first-years) are randomly grouped into companies and given 24 hours to produce an original play based on a theme. Produced by Daniel Spector
-Bespoke Play Festival: an annual collaborative festival with Graduate Acting students
-Playground Student Group: a weekly collaborative development space for writers, actors and directors
-Broke People Play Festival: a series of student written performances and festivals
-Episodic Television Thesis: Undergraduate Dramatic Writing Thesis classes regularly use Undergrad Acting students in table reads
Curricular
-Directing the Actor: A practical workshop in the fundamentals of directing, this course explores the working relationship between actor, director, and script.
-Directing the Camera: A practical craft workshop that emphasizes the visual realization of dramatic scripts and the relationship between performer and camera. It is a directing class and not a camera class. Collaboration with Undergraduate Drama
Non-Curricular/Events
-Drama/UGFTV Mixers: an ongoing mixer event for students of UGFTV and Undergraduate Drama
-Tisch Tac Toe: Community Day collaboration between Drama and UGFTV
-DDW/UGFTV Mixers: an ongoing mixer event for students of UGFTV and Drama Writing
-Camera Casting Binder: Drama students have provided their headshots and resumes to a casting binder for use by UGFTV students, looking to cast for productions
Curricular
- World Building and Games Workshop - taught by Clara Fernandez-Vara at the Graduate Musical Theatre department for students working on their theses. It allows students to explore the worlds of their thesis shows by making games based on them.
-Designing For Kids: students design games for an external client. Our students have made game prototypes and games for the Metropolitan Museum and the American Natural History Museum among others.
-Designing For Museums: students design games for an external client. Our students have made game prototypes and games for the Metropolitan Museum and the American Natural History Museum among others.
-Designing For Impact: iCivics: students design games for an external client. Our students have made game prototypes and games for the Metropolitan Museum and the American Natural History Museum among others.
-Classes between ITP and Game Design: some of our classes over the years have been shared and listed on either department. Last year, The Psychology of Choice was taught in our department, next semester it will be taught in ITP
Curricular
-Collaboration Reloaded: Dramatic Writing students, Graduate Acting students, directors and designers work together and learn how to communicate with each other under the tutelage of The Public Theatre’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Suzan-Lori Parks.
-Theatricality: An investigation into various theatrical forms as they exist in the outside world (e.g., courtrooms, magic shows, religious rituals) and how they translate to stage work. This class has a crossover class with Grad Acting.
Non-Curricular/Events
-Bespoke Play Festival: an annual collaborative festival with Graduate Acting students
-Intimacy Workshop: Fay Simpson has collaborated with ETW doing an intimacy workshop with Judy Ockler
-Year 3 collaborates with Third Year Graduate Film, appearing as actors in their films.
-There are over a dozen production collaborations with Years 2 and 3 Design Students
Curricular
-Second Year: 2nd year film students use Graduate Acting students in film projects
-Third Year: 3rd Year Grad Film students work with Grad Acting students, ITP students and Design students
-Screen Scoring: a collaborative course in composing for film with Steinhardt
Non-Curricular/Events
-Mixer with Dramatic Writing - "speed dating" style pitch/idea mixer
-Lumiere School of Film in Paris - student exchange for production with Graduate Film
-Design: 1 to 3 Design students are admitted each year with a focus of Production Design for Film. These students have been integrated into our curriculum, joining our students in 2 to 5 classes each of 3 years, and working on as many as 6 short films, and 2 commercials projects.
Curricular
-Scene to Song Collaboration. GMTWP and New Studio on Broadway (UG Drama). Part of the curriculum for both departments, this weekly class brings together Year II GMTWP musical theatre writers with Senior NSB musical theatre actors.
-Tisch Opera Lab. An ongoing collaboration between GMTWP, the Department of Design, the professional opera company The American Opera Project (AOP), and a series of external organizations. GMTWP students and alums are paired into composer-librettist teams and create short operas.
-CC&D (Choreographers, Composers, and Designers). Students from GMTWP, Dance and Design explore the relationship between music, movement, and theatrical design. Over the course of the semester, teams of students (both undergrad and graduate) develop short original works - from concept, to development, to production - resulting in an evening-length show of new dance.
-Tangible Interfaces. Students from GMTWP, ITP and Recorded Music work together to build electronic musical instruments. GMTWP and ReMu students will advise the ITP students on what makes an instrument playable and useful, and then actually perform on the prototypes.
Non-Curricular/Events
-Halloween Event. An extracurricular collaboration between GMTWP students, ITP, Games to create an interactive, immersive experience inspired by the holiday. The project allows students to explore interactive, non-linear and immersive storytelling and the connections between theatre-making and game design.
-Games and Musical Theatre. Tisch collaborators: GMTWP, Games. A two-day seminar led by GMTWP faculty Robert Lee and Game Center faculty Clara Fernandez-Vara. Second-year GMTWP students are introduced to principles of game design as a tool to help clarify the themes and dramaturgy of their thesis projects. The seminar culminates in the creation by students of a game prototype based on their thesis musical.
Curricular
-Photography One: we have multiple Photo I sections that were created years ago with the Photo Department that are taught by adjuncts who also teach with the Photo Dept
-Games - Games 101 – A foundational course in game literacy – a shared understanding of games as complex cultural and aesthetic objects
-Games- Intro to Programming: introduces students to the concepts, problems, and methods of computer programming, and how these apply to the creation of video games.
-Games - Tackling Representation in Games: This course discusses foundational theories of identity and encourages students to contribute their own ideas towards the design and interpretation of representation in games.
-Games- Games in Narrative; Poker, Chess and Go:
-Topics in Recorded Music: we cross-list a small number of REMU courses that have OART codes and can be enrolled by OA students.
-Fundamentals of Filmmaking: a foundational filmmaking course created for DWPG students, open to all
-Master Class in Documentary – This course, while not a production class, is designed to give students the opportunity to learn each stage of the documentary filmmaking process from the best working professionals in their field. Co-sponsored with CAS Journalism
Non-Curricular/Events
-Tisch + PS3: Since 2015, OA has partnered with PS3 (an elementary school) for different workshops/activities. In years past, we have partnered with the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, the Department of Drama, Graduate Musical Theater Writing, and the Department of Dance.
-Tisch + Clinton High School: In 2018, Tisch began a new series of collaborations with Clinton High School, working with juniors and seniors to practice the art of interviewing.
-Open Arts Events: In years past, we have hosted a school-wide Halloween costume contest., a 'Financial Empowerment Workshop' for Drama and Collab Arts students, the 'Porous Fest' which is a cross-school student-driven day-long event curating performances and artwork from within the Tisch community, 'First Years Club Mixe'r w/ REMU & STEBA (Stern) Music Mixer
Curricular
Photographic Lighting - Principles and Practice: collaborates with Dramatic Writing’s “MFA Screenplay Thesis” in the spring semester to create lookbooks for each screenplay.
TCR has compiled a list of artist resources available to provide help during this trying time. Keep an eye on this list as well as our social media for updates as more resources become available.
Also check out the TCR Opportunities for Students page for more avenues to collaborate.
As a storytelling incubator for NYU, the NYU Production Lab provides several programs and resources to support creative collaboration including audition/meeting space, development workshops, and film financing opportunities.