The expansive talents of Tisch students, alumni, and faculty were once again on display throughout the Fall 2023 semester. Across a broad array of disciplines, our community’s original artistry and creative leadership led to many awards, achievements, fellowships, and best-of lists. Scroll through their vast accomplishments below.
Institute of Performing Arts
ART & PUBLIC POLICY
Anna Deavere Smith, Art & Public Policy Professor, gave the 73rd A. W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts
Alexander Cavaluzzo ‘12 (MA, Art & Public Policy) was named a 2023-24 Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Writer’s Institute
Sheril Antonio, Art & Public Policy Professor, was a guest editor and contributor for Issue 19.1 of The Scholar and Feminist Online, “To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies”
Narkita's (APP) solo exhibition, i found myself in the mountains displayed at the CU Denver Experience Gallery
Anooj Bhandari (APP) was the recipient of the Fall-Winter 2023-2024 MacDowell Fellowship
Luis Rincón Alba's, Art and Public Policy professor, exhibition The Voice Does Go Up and performance series Chant Down was on view at Hannah Traore Gallery
Karen Finley, Art and Public Policy Professor, was interviewed by Tanya O'Debra about her performance, COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO
Anooj Bhandari ‘17 (MA, Art & Public Policy) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn '21 (MA, Art & Public Policy) curated an exhibition at Harvard University, which celebrated 50 years of hip-hop culture
Marjuan Canady (Art & Public Policy) won the 2023 DC Mayor Arts Larry Neal Writers Award
Savanah Pennell (Art & Public Policy) curated Mi Gente: Manifestations of Community in the Southwest
Anna Deavere Smith, Art & Public Policy Professor, published the first play in The Atlantic magazine in almost a century, The Ghost of Slavery
Karen Finley, Art & Public Policy Professor, was featured in the NY Times article, "Conservatives Called Her Artwork ‘Obscene.’ She’s Back for More
COLLABORATIVE ARTS/OPEN ARTS
Elizabeth Hess, Open Arts instructor, was published in Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising
Emmanuele Phuon, Collaborative Arts/Open Arts instructor, danced in Yvonne Rainer's piece, HELLZAPOPPIN'--What about the bees?
Deborah Goodwin, Screenwriting professor, released season two of her podcast, FEAR, A LOVE STORY
Katherine Fisher, Visiting Assistant Arts Professor in the Collaborative Arts department, shared an exposition at the "Data Kinesthetics: Mapping Data to and through the Body" symposium hosted at Harvard University's ArtLab
Pete Simpson, Collaborative Arts/Open Arts instructor, performed in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's play, Infinite Life
Cecilia Mejia, Open Arts instructor Open Arts instructor, was hired by American Documentary (AmDoc) as the Vice President of External Affairs
Sharon Badal, Distinguished Teacher, juried the Rhode Island Film Festival, The $50,000 Louisiana Film Prize, the Bend Film Festival, and the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival
Emmanuele Phuon, Collaborative Arts/Open Arts instructor, wrote the 2023 Winter Issue of the journal Dance Index
Dance
Angie Pittman, Assistant Arts Professor in the Dance department, was awarded a FY2024 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant
Jesse Light ’17 (BFA, Dance) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Benjamin Freedman, Dance adjunct faculty member choreographed and stage directed two fully produced opera scenes in the feature film, She Came To Me
Richard Move, Assistant Arts Professor in the Dance department, was commissioned by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth to present Herstory of the Universe@Dartmouth
DESIGN FOR STAGE & FILM
Sam Helfrich, Associate Arts Professor in the department of Design for Stage & Film, won the Austrian National Music Theater Prize for his production of the opera of Angels in America
Andrea Lauer (Design for Stage & Film) was chosen as an FIC researcher
Susan Hilferty, Design for Stage and Film professor, designed NYU President, Linda G. Mills’, academic regalia for the 17th presidential inauguration
Qween Jean '16 (Design for Stage & Film) was featured in American Theatre's fall issue
Susan Hilferty, Design for Stage and Film professor, was interviewed by Broadway.com about her most iconic creations for Wicked
Celeste Jennings '23 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was accepted into The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group 2023
Clint Ramos, Kindall Almond, Celeste Jennings, Allen Lee Hughes, Emmanuel Delgado, and S
DRAMA
Shaina Taub '09 (BFA, Drama) premiered a new play on Broadway, Suffs, which was produced by Rachel Sussman '12 (BFA, Drama)
Laura Levine, Drama professor, released a new book, Afterlives of Endor: Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the Malleus Maleficarum to Shakespeare (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Jesse Jae Hoon '15 (BFA, Drama) was accepted into The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group 2023
Sarah Silverman (Drama) was nominated for a Grammy Award
Rachel Sennott ’18 (BFA, Drama) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
GRADUATE ACTING
Jim Iorio '92 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was appointed as Associate Chair and Producing Director of the Theatre Conservatory at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University
Erin Neufer '15 (MFA, Graduate Acting) recurred as Mary Johnson in Showtime’s Fellow Travelers
Casey Killoran '14 (MFA, Graduate Acting) played the lead role in Misery at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs
Naomi Lorrain '16 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was cast in Daphne at LCT3
Genevieve Angelson '12 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the La Jolla Playhouse World Premiere of Babbitt
Jeremy Shamos ‘98 (MFA, Graduate Acting), Amber Gray '10 (MFA, Graduate Acting), and Jin Ha '16 (MFA, Graduate Acting) were in the world premiere of Here We Are
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ’95 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Manoel Felciano '04 (MFA, Graduate Acting) wrapped up his run as Tom Watson in the Tony-Award winning revival of Parade on Broadway
Sathya Sridharan '14 (MFA, Graduate Acting) acted in Two Brown Porters at 59E59
GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING
Mikey Rosenbaum (Cycle 30, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program) released an album of original songs entitled Get Lost! Pt. 1: Last Summer on Spotify
Marcus Scott (Cycle 22, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program) workshopped his horror play, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Mike Shaieb (Cycle 8), Sean McDaniel (Cycle 10), and Alden Terry (Cycle 8) performed at 54 Below in Lisa Howard's Holiday Special
Luke Enders (Cycle 31) presented a holiday-themed cabaret of songs An Enders and Frienders Christmas at NYC's famous cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama
Jaime Lozano (Cycle 18, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program) released Songs By An Immigrant Vol. 2, which was produced by Adjunct Professor and Alum, Sean Patrick Flahaven (Cycle 7)
Emily Chiu, Keurim Hur, and Xiaodan Zhang (all Cycle 26, GMTW) licensed and translated their thesis musical, UNSHELVED, for a tour abroad in China
Brett Macias (Cycle 14, GMTW) presented a staged reading of his new musical AN UN-HERO'S JOURNEY
Mel Hornyak, Chiara Nicholas, Simon Lansberg-Rodriguez and Tess Edwards (Cycle 34, GMTW) hosted a Haunted Seaside Carnival
Peter Mills & Jesse Kearney, Jr. (both Cycle 8, GMTW) presented their musical THE OSCAR MICHEAUX PROJECT at the 35th Annual Festival of New Musicals
Brandy Hoang Collier (Cycle 29, GMTW), Erika Ji (Cycle 30, GMTW), and Clare Fuyoko Bierman (Cycle 30, GMTW) presented their musical YOKO'S HUSBAND'S KILLER'S JAPANESE WIFE, GLORIA at the 35th Annual Festival of New Musicals
Rebekah Melocik & Jacob Yandura (both Cycle 20, GMTW) debuted their musical, HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, on Broadway
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Nora Chipaumire (Performance Studies) was chosen as an FIC researcher
Elliot Mercer ‘10 (MA, Performance Studies) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
Megan Nicely '05/'12 (MA/Ph.D, Performance Studies) published Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language: Thinking in Micromovement (Palgrave)
Nikki Kendra Davis '21 (MA, Performance Studies) premiered Women Who Know: A Witch Play
Zac Easterling (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) co-authored a chapter that appeared in an edition of Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives
Allen Baylosis '21 (MA, Performance Studies) was awarded the Theatre Research in Canada/ Recherches théâtrales au Canada (TRIC/RTAC) Writing Fellowship for Emerging and Early Career Theatre and Performance Studies Scholars 2023-2024, as well as the José Esteban Muñoz First-Time Presentation Award
Ann Pellegrini’s, Performance Studies Professor, book, Gender Without Identity, was mentioned in the New York Times
INSTITUTE OF EMERGING MEDIA
CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE OF RECORDED MUSIC
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music partnered with She Is The Music (SITM) for The Power Within Our Words
The Clive Davis Institute hosted a year-long series of talks and events in celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary
Andrew Watt (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was nominated for a Grammy Award
Kaleb "KQuick" Rollins ’10 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was nominated for a Grammy Award
Robert Glasper, Arts Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards
Black Thought, Adjunct Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award
Ashley Kahn, Adjunct Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award
Jasper Lee Harris (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Madison Love ’17 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
ITP/IMA
Danny Rozin, ITP faculty member, participated in SIGGRAPH 2023 art gallery
Zichen Yuan and Jo Suk (Current Students, ITP) were awarded the Rhizome Microgrant
Jody Culkin and Eric Hagan (ITP) launched an installation for the Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden at 174 Suffolk Street
Briana Jones, Lily Yu, Mary Mark, and Dror Margalit (Current Students, ITP) were featured in the *This Is Not A Drill* Student Fellows cohort
Tetsu Kondo (ITP) wrote an article about his time at ITP and how it led him to P. Comp and Processing, which then set the stage for his teaching career back in Japan
Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi (ITP) alumni and co-founders of the research art collective, zzyw.org, screened their new video artwork Other Spring at the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria
Alex Dodge (ITP), debuted a group of works at Klaus Gallery
Caroline Sinders '14 (ITP) and Jackie Liu '20 (ITP) became 2023-2024 Culture Hub Resident Artists
Milena Berry (ITP) was interviewed by Pulse 2.0
Matt Romein and Lisa Jamhoury (ITP) were featured in the Maxlive Festival
Adrian Sas (ITP) installed his site-specific art installation Broadway: Now & Then on a Harlem street corner for a 6-month run
Ruth Sergel was mentioned in an article about NYU's Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire memorial
Duncan Figurski, August Luhrs, Rebecca Walden, Sam Heckle and Daniel Rautenbach (ITP) showcased their first prototype in an installation at Level Gallery in Queens, NY
NYU Game Center
NYU Games Center ran a Designing for Webtoons course during the fall of 2023
Clara Fernandez-Vara, Faculty Member of NYU Game Center, finished the manuscript of the 3rd edition of her book, Introduction to Game Analysis
Ashley Eliassaint ‘23, Sarah Doherty Granoff ‘23, Darcy Gutierrez ‘23, Jackie Murray ‘23, and Nick Portugal ‘23 (NYU Game Center) were nominated for the Live Action category Indiecade award for their game, Report on the Death of Robert Evergreen
Greg Heffernan (NYU Game Center) was chosen as an FIC researcher
Desiree Cifre '17 (MFA, NYU Game Center) and Elizabeth Ballou '20 (MFA, NYU Game Center), who are a part ot the Wylde Flowers group, were nominated for a GLAAD award, and won the Australian Game Dev Award for Excellence in Ongoing Games
PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING
Hank Willis Thomas '98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was honored with the 2023 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts
Snow Yunxue Fu, Photography & Imaging professor, was featured in the Runaway Paradise: Let’s Entertain Exhibition at the Times Art Museum (时代美术馆) in Chongqing, China
Snow Yunxue Fu, Photography & Imaging professor, appeared as a guest on SinoVision's evening talk show, New York Lounge
Rose DeSiano (Photography & Imaging) was chosen as an FIC researcher
Snow Yunxue Fu, Photography & Imaging Preforssor, presented her evolving digital art project, Daughter ICE's (International Conceptual E-human), at the Decoding Tech Zone Conference in Toronto, Canada
Sean Fader, Photography & Imaging Professor, was interviewed on WBEZ Chicago (Chicago's NPR news station) about his interactive work, Insufficient Memory
Sophia Wilson (Photography & Imaging) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
MAURICE KANBAR INSTITUTE OF FILM & TELEVISION
Cinema Studies
Zhen Zhang, Professor of Cinema Studies, hosted Reel Taiwan: A Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Women Make Waves International Film Festival (WMWIFF)
Nathaniel Brennan (PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies) successfully defended his dissertation, Nation and Nurture: Cultural Anthropology, World War II, and the Birth of National Cinema Studies
Sophie Holzberger (PhD Student, Cinema Studies) co-curated the feminist elsewheres festival at Arsenal Cinema in Berlin
Caroline Rubens ‘06, Kirk Mudle ‘23, Walter Forsberg ‘10, Erica Titkemeyer ‘13, Matt Yang ‘24, Dan Erdman ‘13, Adrianne Lundy ‘24, Raananah Sarid-Segal ‘17, Fin Hatfield ‘24, Juana Suárez, Caroline Rubens ‘06, Ben Turkus ‘16, Julita Pratiwi ‘24, Juliana Principe ‘25, Matt Yang ‘24, Kimberly Tarr ‘09, Dan Erdman ‘13, Carmel Curtis ‘15, Pamela Vadakan ‘05, Carmel Curtis ‘15, and Kristin MacDonough ‘13 presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference
Robert Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies, was invited to present his book, Indigeneity and the Decolonial Gaze, to the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA)
Allen Weiss, Distinguished Teacher, published a book, Guide anachronique de Kyoto
Jasper Lauderdale (PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies) successfully defended his dissertation, After the end of the world: Black radical alterity and the decolonizing of space and time in the speculative and the fantastic
GRADUATE FILM
Raven Jackson (MFA, Graduate Film) was featured in the LA Times
Yuan Yuan '22 and Lorena Durán '20 (MFA, Graduate Film) received the 2023m Princess Grace Award
Macdaleine St.Remy (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) received a 2023 Princess Grace Honoraria
Laura Moss (MFA, Graduate Film) released her debut film birth/rebirth in theaters
Mia Cioffi, Graduate Film faculty member, released Invisible Beauty in select theaters including Film Forum NYC
Abbesi Akhamie '17 (MFA, Graduate Film) received a Princess Grace Special Project Grant
Reuben Hamlyn (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) debuted his feature documentary, Another Body, at the IFC Center
Claire Barnett (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) received a New York Women in Film & Television 2023 Scholarship
Ingrid Jungermann ‘15 (MFA, Graduate Film) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
A.V. Rockwell ’12 (BFA, Film & Television)/’19 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple Gotham Awards
Raven Jackson ’19 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Brett Morgen '99 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Grammy Award
Tsung-Yen Lin (Graduate Film) featured his short film PIGLET PIGLET in UTA Next Gen
Alyssa Loh’s Op-ed (MFA, Graduate Film) wrote an article, ‘Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.’, which was featured in the New York Times
RITA & BURTON GOLDBERG DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC WRITING
Christopher Shinn ‘97 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
C.A. Johnson ‘16 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
Daniel Goldfarb, Associate Arts Professor of Dramatic Writing, streamed the second season of his hit shoe Julia on HBO Max
George C. Wolfe '84 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Donald Glover ’06 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Humaira Iqbal '23 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) and Nina Ki '08 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing), received the 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group fellowship from The Public Theater
Lina Suh '08 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) screened her first feature film, MEETING YOU, MEETING ME, at the 20th Annual Vail film Festival
Celeste Yim ’20 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Olivia Hunt ‘23 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) wrote The Misanthrope, which was directed by DDW alumna Frances Timberlake ‘23 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) and debuted at the Irt Theater
UNDERGRADUATE FILM & TELEVISION
Candace Thompson (Undergraduate Film & Television) was chosen as an FIC researcher
Rick Litvin, Professor of Undergraduate Film & Television, was interviewed by NBC News for an article about the new documentary, Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah ‘20 (BFA, Undergraduate Film & Television) was awarded a Fellowship at MacDowell
Ravi Nandan ’99 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Laura Kittrell ’08 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for a Gotham Award
Billy Crystal '70 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), '16 Hon., Dean’s Council, was named the 46th John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honoree
Jason Baum ’08, Gordon Von Steiner ’10, and Rick Rubin ’85 (BFA, Film & Television) were each nominated for a Grammy Award
Martin Herlihy ’19 & Ben Marshall ’17 was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Emma Seligman '17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & Television) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Trent Simonian ’23 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & Television) was named on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 List