News
Every day someone from Tisch School of the Arts makes news. Here's where we share with you the incredible achievements of our students, alumni, faculty and friends.
Congrats to these IGF Award and DICE nominees from the NYU Game Center!
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026
Several Game Center students, alumni, and affiliates have been nominated for awards this year at both the IGF Awards and DICE awards!
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ITP Faculty & Alumni Team featured in Wired, hosting workshop at TEI
Friday, Feb 13, 2026
"The Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who break apart spent Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and hack them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker nestled amid an array of lights and buttons. To play it, you put your mouth on it and draw your breath inward, like you would on a vape."
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2026 Grammy Winners
Monday, Feb 2, 2026
Congratulations to the 7 Tisch alumni, former students, faculty, and friends who won a 2026 Grammy award!
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The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and Undergraduate Drama Presented a concert of works in progress
Friday, Feb 27, 2026
The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, in collaboration with Undergraduate Drama, presented Second Drafts: A Concert of Works in Process showcasing student work
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2026 Post Next 50
Thursday, Feb 26, 2026
The Washington Post announced their second annual Post Next 50, a collection of the 50 most influential individuals working toward building a bold future today. This year, three NYU Tisch alumni are featured in this list.
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Seth Caplan Is A Producer for ‘I Want Your Sex’ Acquired by Magnolia Pictures
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026
MA Media Producing faculty Seth Caplan is one of the producers on the film "I Want Your Sex" which recently sealed its U.S. distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures.
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University Professor Diana Taylor Selected to Receive the Rodolfo Usigli Medal
Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026
The award is granted by the Rodolfo Usigli National Center for Theater Research, Documentation, and Information (CITRU) of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) of the Government of Mexico, and the Department of Literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
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2026 BAFTA Winners
Monday, Feb 23, 2026
Congratulations to those in the Tisch community who won a 2026 BAFTA!
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Dramatic Writing Alumna Kisha Tikina Burgos (MFA '09) Wins Film Independent Spirit Award!
Friday, Feb 20, 2026
Alumna Kisha Tikina Burgos (MFA '09) has earned the prestigious John Cassavetes Award at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards for her film Esta Isla (This Island). As the project's screenwriter, Burgos was honored for delivering a compelling narrative produced for under $1 million...
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ITP Alum Nathaniel Stern's "Generation to Generation" Opens in Milwaukee
Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.
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ITP students' XR experience presented at the UN
Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
This project was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on December 3, 2025, and from January 2 to January 6, 2026.
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DPI Professor, Wafaa Bilal speaks at ICP
Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
ICP, Ward Gallery and The Road to Nowhere present: A Lens on Diaspora – a photography salon focused on image-makers from the diaspora. The event centers stories of identity, belonging, migration, home, and cultural hybridity, exploring how these experiences shape visual practice. Presenting lens-based work from four diaspora artists, this salon reflects on communities across borders, inherited histories, hybrid identities, and the idea of home as something remembered, imagined, or constantly renegotiated.
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ITP Alum and Visual Artist Ernesto Ríos Presents Retrovisión (2000–2025) at MACAZ Museum, Mexico
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026
With Retrovisión, Ernesto Ríos reaffirms a career that is both deeply rooted and continually evolving, solidifying his standing as one of Mexico’s most renowned visual artists. The exhibition invites audiences to engage with time, perception, and the systemic forces that shape our world, offering a critically attuned and profoundly contemporary perspective that reflects the enduring significance of his artistic practice.
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