Highlights: Spring 2023

Thursday, Apr 27, 2023

The Tisch community continued to inspire, innovate, and create amazing work during the Spring 2022 semester. Congratulations to the Tisch students, faculty, and staff on your many impressive accomplishments! Scroll through the awards, honors, and achievements below.

Institute of Performing Arts

ART & PUBLIC POLICY

Xyza Cruz Bacani ’22 (Art & Public Policy) was featured in “New York Now: Home A Photography Triennial” at the Museum of the City of New York

Anna Deavere Smith, Art & Public Policy Professor, moderated a Q&A with the filmmakers Razelle Benally (MFA Candidate, Grad Film) and Matthew Galkin '95 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) of the new Showtime series, Murder in Big Horn

Camonghne Felix (Art & Public Policy) debuted a nonfiction book, Dyscalculia, which was featured in the New York Times book review

NALAC ADVOCACY LEADERSHIP FELLOWS
NALAC ADVOCACY LEADERSHIP FELLOWS

Antonieta Landa ‘22 (Art & Public Policy) was named a 2023 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute Fellow

Karen Finley's, Art & Public Policy Professor, solo showCovid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco was a New York Times Critics Pick

Pato Hebert, Art & Public Policy Chair and Professor, moderated a Virtual Roundtable + Launch Event for “The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next.”

DANCE

DANCIN'
DANCIN'

Nando Morland, Khori Michelle Petinaud and Ida Saki (Dance) were featured in a new Broadway musical, DANCIN'

Cari Ann Shim Sham, Dance Professor, curated and moderated the podcast "Spotlight on women & non-binary artists on fx(hash)" for fx(fam) 003

Cari Ann Shim Sham’s, Dance Professor, museum was chosen to curate for objkt, one of the largest NFT platforms on the tezos blockchain

GRADUATE ACTING

Todd Bartels '11 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was recognized in The Black List for their script

Branden Davon Lindsay ‘12 (MFA, Graduate Acting) joined the North American tour of Roundabout's 2020 Tony Award®-winning Best Revival of a Play, A Soldier's Play

Marchánt Davis '16 and John Zdrojeski '18 (MFA, Graduate Acting) joined the company of Broadway's Good Night, Oscar

Rosa Gilmore ‘16 and Stephanie Jean Lane ‘16 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in The Shakespeare Theatre Company's King Lear

Angel Desai '97 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred as the role of Jean McDowell in Poker Face

KeiLyn Durrel Jones '15 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was cast as a series regular in How To Die Alone

Marcia Gay Harden '88 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in Indie Comedy Daughter Of The Bride

Danai Gurira '04 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won an NAACP Image Award

Mia Barron '99 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in Keith Bunin's THE COAST STARLIGHT

JOSHUA ECHEBIRI ('20) & TRENT M. WILLIAMS ('20)
JOSHUA ECHEBIRI ('20) & TRENT M. WILLIAMS ('20)

Joshua Echebiri '20 and Trent M. Williams '20 (MFA, Graduate Acting) were cast in the Apple TV series Dear Edward

Camila Moreno ‘19 (MFA, Graduate Acting) played the role of Medea in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles in Yale Rep’s 2022-23 WILL POWER! Production

Jason Butler Harner '97 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was cast in Rabbit Hole on Paramount+

Sanjit DeSilva '04 and Bhavesh Patel '07 (MFA, Graduate Acting) were in the world premiere of Elyria at Atlantic Theater Company

John Maddaloni ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was cast as the role of Clown in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Korey Jackson '11 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was cast in the Old Globe's production of The XIXth (The Nineteenth)

PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Meron Langsner's '00 (M.A, Performance Studies) play, Burning Up the Dictionary, was published in an acting edition by Next Stage Press

Clark Young's '17 (M.A, Performance Studies) new film based on the play Young co-wrote, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, screened at the Quad Cinema

Michelle Castañeda, Performance Studies Assistant Professor, published a new book, Disappearing Rooms: the Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law

Mateo Hurtado '20 (M.A, Performance Studies) produced a comedy show, Glory W(hole)

Kate Berlant '11 (M.A, Performance Studies) was interviewed by the New Yorker about her show Kate

Richard Schechner, Performance Studies and University Professor Emeritus, was featured as the Scholar in Focus in an issue of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance

Isabella Rivera ‘21 (B.A, Performance Studies) was named the inaugural recipient of the NYU MLK Staff Award

​​Alexandra T. Vazquez, Performance Studies Associate Professor, kicked off the 2023 O, Miami Poetry Festival in conversation with poet Hanif Abdurraqib

CRISTAL TRUSCOTT
CRISTAL TRUSCOTT

Cristal Truscott '02/'12 (M.A/Ph.D, Performance Studies) was awarded a 2023 United States Artists Fellowship in Theater & Performance

Leonie Ettinger '16 (M.A., Performance Studies) was published in the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies

Anne Bogart '84 (MA, Performance Studies) won an Obie Award

Yasmeen Chism (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) was awarded a 2023 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Zac Easterling (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) was awarded the NYU Alpine Fellowship

Richard Move '10/'19 (MA/PhD, Performance Studies) received a Guggenheim Fellowship

Isaac Siilber (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) received the Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship

Alia Sabi (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) received the Andrew Sauter Fellowship

Alhena Katsof (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) received the Mainzer Summer Fellowship

Richard Schechner, Performance Studies and University Professor Emeritus, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

DRAMA

Katherine Waterston '02, Adam Sandler '88, Jessy Hodges '08, and Rachel Brosnahan '12 (BFA, Drama) were each nominated for a SAG Award

Stephanie Hsu '12 was nominated for multiple SAG Awards

Molly Gordon ’17 (BFA, Drama) won multiple Sundance Film Festival Awards

Nick Hansell ’19 (BFA, Drama) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Carvell Wallace '07 (BFA, Drama) was awarded the 2023 American Mosaic Journalism Prize

Stephanie Hsu ‘12 (BFA, Drama) won a Film Independent Spirit Award

Erin Walsh '04 (BFA, Drama) was named one of Hollywood's 25 most powerful stylists by The Hollywood Reporter

ADAM SANDLER COURTESY OF THE WASHINGTON POST
ADAM SANDLER COURTESY OF THE WASHINGTON POST

Adam Sandler ‘88 (BFA, Drama) was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

David Brimmer, Faculty Member in the Drama department, won an Obie Award

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Faculty Member in the Drama department, won an Obie Award

Nikiya Mathis '08 (BFA, Drama) won an Obie Award

Heather Christian '04 (BFA, Drama) won an Obie Award 

Shaina Taub '09 (BFA, Drama) won an Obie Award

Audrey Rogulski ‘23, Enid Acevedo ‘24, and Audrey Miller ‘24 (BFA, Drama) were recipients the NYU Center for the Humanities inaugural Undergraduate Fellowship

Dahéli Hall '98 (BFA, Drama) presented her one-woman show, Spadura, at the 2023 United Solo Festival, which won two awards

GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING

Sean Patrick Flahaven, Faculty Member in Graduate Musical Theater Writing, won a Grammy Award for Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording)

Jenny Stafford (Cycle 20, GMTW) premiered her new show, SECRET HOUR

Sam Norman (Cycle 30, GMTW) and José G. Alba Rodríguez (Current Cycle 32 student, GMTW) were commissioned by WNO’s American Opera Initiative to create original 20-minute operas that will premiere in January 2024

John Carroll, Anna Marcus-Hecht, Maria Elizabeth White, and Ella Sodam Yoon (Cycle 31, GMTW) and Deniz Demirkurt (Cycle 29, GMTW) presented their new shows at the EAT Spark Theater Festival

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER (CYCLE 16)
RYAN SCOTT OLIVER (CYCLE 16)

Ryan Scott Oliver (Cycle 16, GMTW) won the 2023 Kleban Award for Lyrics

Maggie-Kate Coleman and Erato Kremmyda (both Cycle 17, GMTW) were one of two writing teams to receive the 2023 Richard Rodgers Award for their musical, MARIE IN TOMORROW LAND

Michael R. Jackson (Cycle 14, GMTW) opened his new musical WHITE GIRL IN DANGER at Second Stage

Luke Di Somma (Cycle 19, GMTW) premiered his new opera, THE UNRULY TOURISTS, at the Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna in Auckland, New Zealand

Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald (Both Cycle 16, GMTW) presented the world premiere of their new musical THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN at Flint Repertory Theatre

Helen Park (Cycle 22, GMTW) was appointed as a one of five new Dramatists Guild Council members

OPEN ARTS/COLLABORATIVE ARTS

CECILIA MEJIA
CECILIA MEJIA

Cecilia Mejia, Adjunct Professor in the Open Arts department, received The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award

August Luhrs, Visiting Assistant Arts Professor in Collaborative Arts, wrote the essay “Joy || Labyrinth”, which was published in Adjacent

DESIGN FOR STAGE & FILM

Star Theodos Khan ‘02 and Aaron Black ‘01 (Design For Stage & Film) were nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for Production Design and Art Direction on Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would

Beowulf Boritt '96 (Design For Stage & Film) was featured in Lighting & Sound America

Xiangfu Xiao '22 (Design For Stage & Film) was featured in New York Art Life Magazine

The Hollywood Reporter named Tisch Design as one of the top 10 Costume Design Schools in the country

Reza Behjat '17 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won multiple Obie Awards

OBIE AWARDS
OBIE AWARDS

Stacey Derosier '18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) and Chris Herbie Holland '19 (MFA, Grad Acting) won an Obie Award 

Marsha Ginsberg '90 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won an Obie Award

Qween Jean '16 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film)  won an Obie Award

David Bengali '12 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won an Obie Award

You-Shin ChendotsArnulfo MaldonadoClint RamosOrla LongQween JeanBarbara Samuels, and Cha See all received Lucille Lortel nominations

Justin Townsend, Chair of the Design for Stage and Film department, was featured in Lighting and Sound

INSTITUTE OF EMERGING MEDIA

ITP/IMA

Elizabeth Pérez and CY X (ITP) were featured in Eyebeam

David Lobser, ITP Adjunct Professor, directed Dreaming, a project in collaboration with Dr. Deirdre Barret

Gabe Colombo, ITP/IMA Faculty Member, premiered Platform with MTA Arts Design 

Kat Mustatea (ITP) was listed as a finalist for the National Museum of Women in the Arts' Women to Watch: New Worlds 2024 exhibit

JOHN HENRY THOMPSON
JOHN HENRY THOMPSON

John Henry Thompson, ITP/IMA Adjunct Instructor, was featured in the article, "People of Color in Tech"

Tom Igoe, ITP Faculty Member, was awarded a Global Opportunity Grant for his Workshop for Lighting, Practitioners, Researchers, and Teachers

Abe Burmeister (ITP) was featured on the Internet Misfits podcast

Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, and Cristóbal Valenzuela, were featured in The New York Times

Andie Han (BFA Candidate, IMA) was the recipient of two Indigo Awards for her web application ListWish

NYU GAME CENTER

NYU Game Center was ranked #1 for both undergrad and graduate game design programs by the Princeton Review

Jeff Petriello, NYU Game Center Adjunct Professor, produced IMMORTALITY, which won the BAFTA, IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize, IGF for Narrative, and the Game Developers Choice Award for Innovation. Connor Carson '20 (MFA, NYU Game Center) was the lead programmer and Dylan Nelkin '20 (MFA, NYU Game Center)  was also a programmer for the game

GAMEFEST 2023
GAMEFEST 2023

Josh Hirshfield's '23 (MFA, NYU Game Center) thesis project was a part of the 2023 RPI GameFest Official Selection

Greg Heffernan, NYU Game Center Adjunct Professor, created Betrayal at Club Low, which won the IGF Nuovo Award, and was nominated for IGF for Narrative and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Flan Falacci, NYU Game Center Adjunct Professor, created Titanic II - Orchestra for Dying at Sea, which was nominated for the IGF Nuovo Award

Jeff Petriello, NYU Game Center Adjunct Professor, produced the word “Wordle”, which was the most searched for word on google in 2022

May Chen '24 (MFA, NYU Game Center) became a Project Management Intern for League of Legends Wild Rift at Tencent

CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE OF RECORDED MUSIC

Sophie Ash ’10 (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) worked as a PM for Kwasi Fordjour's creative studio, handling Steve Lacy's Gemini Rights, which won a Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album

Nija Charles, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music Advisory Board member, contributed to Beyoncé's act i: Renaissance which won a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

Robert Glasper, Adjunct Instructor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, Black Radio III

Taylor Perry ’20 (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was on the publicity team for Shore Fire Media and worked with Samara Joy, who won a Grammy for Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album

Blake Slatkin (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) won a Grammy for Record of the Year for “About Damn Time” by Lizzo and contributed to "Unholy" by Sam Smith and Kim Petras, which won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Andrew Watt (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) contributed to "Degradation Rules" by Ozzy Osbourne and featuring Tony Iommi, which won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance; and contributed to Patient Number 9 by Ozzy Osbourne, which won for a Grammy for Best Rock Album

2023 GRAMMY AWARDS
2023 GRAMMY AWARDS

Jim Anderson, Professor Emeritus, and Ulrike Schwarz, Adjunct Instructor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, were nominated for a Grammy for Best Immersive Audio Album, Picture the Invisible - Focus 1 by Jane Ira Bloom

Binta Brown, Adjunct Instructor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, contributed to Red Balloon by Tank and the Bangas, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Albu

Raul Cubina ’15 (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was a Producer and Songwriter on "Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes" & "Rock N Roll" from Pusha T.’s It’s Almost Dry, which was nominated for Best Rap Album

Jasper Harris (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was a Producer and Songwriter on "I Like You (A Happier Song)" by Post Malone & Doja Cat, which was nominated for Best Rap Pop Duo/Group Performance; and a Producer and Songwriter on "First Class" by Jack Harlow which was nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance from the album Come Home the Kids Miss You, which wanominated for Best Rap Album

Alan Silverman, Adjunct Instructor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, produced and mixed Spellbound by Judy Collins, which was nominated for Best Folk Album. Alan also mastered 2:22 by Karen Peck & New River, which was nominated for Best Roots Gospel Album; and Let's Just Praise the Lord by the Gaither Vocal Band, which was nominated for Best Roots Gospel Album

Blake Slatikin
 (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) received three Grammy nominations for Album of the Year for Special by Lizzo; Song of the Year for “About Damn Time” by Lizzo; and Best Pop Solo Performance for “About Damn Time” by Lizzo 

Ahmir “?UESTLOVE” Thompson, Adjunct Instructor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for Music is History

Cecile Tournesac ’11 (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was Supervising Music Editor on the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Andrew Watt (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song, "Patient Number 9”, by Ozzy Osbourne

PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

DPI celebrated a decade of Black Portraiture[s] in Paris

Valentina Beauchamp, Clementine Clearwaters, Antonella Cueva, Savannah Jackson, Paige Labuda, Samantha Lee, Zoe Morris, Brendan Rains, Tony Wang, Yuanqing Xie, and Ruyang Zheng (Photography & Imaging) were awarded Tom Drysdale Production Funds

Bobby Cheung (BFA Candidate, Photography & Imaging) was shortlisted in 2023 Sony World Photography Student Competition

Ashley Peña (BFA Candidate, Photography & Imaging) was named 2023 World Press Photo Regional Winner

Denise Stephanie Hewitt (BFA Candidate, Photography & Imaging) was named one of "10 Creative Leaders Under 30" by ESSENCE Magazine

Hank Willis Thomas '98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) presented The Embrace, a bronze monument honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, installed on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts

Tyler Mitchell '17 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) debuted Chrysalis At Gagosian Gallery in London

Momo Takahashi '22 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was awarded the 3rd Prize 2022 BarTur/BaseCamp Student Award for Unity and Diversity

Eric Hart Jr. '22 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was named one of five in the 2nd Class of Solid Black Changemakers, sponsored by Bounce TV and Doritos

Tyler Givens '16 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was awarded the For Freedoms Youth Artist Fellowship 

Eric Hart Jr. '22 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was awarded the Image Equity Fellowship, presented by Google, Aperture, For Freedoms, and FREE THIS WORK

Golden '18 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) published the book, A Dead Name That Learned How To Live

Sam Contis '04 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) published the book, Sam Contis: Overpass

Sarah Macel '03 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) published the book, What Did the Deep Sea Say

Eric Hart Jr. '22 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) published the book, When I Think About Power

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, was awarded Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art

Bonnie Briant, Photography & Imaging Professor, was shortlisted for Aperture Photobooks Awards

Yolanda Cuomo, Photography & Imaging Professor, was shortlisted for Aperture Photobooks Awards

Isolde Brielmaier, Photography & Imaging Professor, was nominated in the Lucie Award category for Photo Museum Exhibition of the Year

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, won the Lucie Award for Educator of the Year 

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, was honored at Children's Museum of Manhattan with Laurie M. Tisch Award

HANK WILLIS THOMAS AND DPI CHAIR DEBORAH WILLIS
HANK WILLIS THOMAS AND DPI CHAIR DEBORAH WILLIS

Hank Willis Thomas ‘98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) and Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, were honored at the Tisch Gala

The Center for Black Visual Culture won Creative Tools for Social Change Award

Elaine Mayes, Professor Emeritus, published the monograph, The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968

Ariel Goldberg, Photography & Imaging Professor, curated Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, co-curated Free As They Want To Be: Artists Committed To Memory at FotoFocus Biennial 2022 

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, and Hank Willis Thomas '98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) displayed public artwork, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (Remember me) on The Church of Heavenly Rest

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, and Hank Willis Thomas '98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) exhibited in Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America at the African American Museum in Philadelphia

Snow Yunxue Fu, Photography & Imaging Professor, exhibited Daughter ICE Emojis

Snow Yunxue Fu, Photography & Imaging Professor, presented New Media Art Solo Exhibition at Chicago Gamespace

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, and New York University Kimmel Windows Gallery presented The Black Civil War Soldier Kimmel Windows installation 

Lorie Novak, Photography & Imaging Professor and former Chair, celebrated over 30 years at Tisch and was honored at a retirement ceremony by DPI’s 40th Anniversary Panel

Isolde Brielmaier, Photography & Imaging Professor, published the book I Am Sparkling

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, co-authored the book, Free As They Want To Be: Artists Committed To Memory 

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, co-edited the book, Women and Migrations 2

Yelaine Rodriguez, Photography & Imaging Professor, hosted the TEDx Talk I Am a Living Archive

Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography & Imaging department, was featured on CBS for her work, The Black Civil War Soldier Kimmel Windows installation 

MAURICE KANBAR INSTITUTE OF FILM & TELEVISION

GRADUATE FILM

Jenn Ruff, Graduate Film Faculty Member was featured in Evidence

Charlotte Wells '17 (MFA, Graduate Film) won a DGA Award

Charlotte Wells '17 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple BAFTA Awards

Brett Morgen '99 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for a BAFTA Award

Tony Kushner '84 (MFA, Directing) was nominated for a BAFTA Award

Charlotte Wells '17 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Film Independent Spirit Award

Nikyatu Jusu '11 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Film Independent Spirit Award

Elegance Bratton ‘19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won an NAACP Image Award

Malcolm D. Lee ‘01 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won an NAACP Image Award

Spike Lee, Graduate Film Professor, received the Ian McLellan Hunter Award at the 75th Annual Writers Guild Awards

Mamadou Dia '17 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) received a Guggenheim Fellowship

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 | AWARD WINNERS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 | AWARD WINNERS

Maryam Keshavarz ’10 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won multiple Sundance Film Festival Awards

Jarreau Carrillo ’15 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Shuli Huang ’23 (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Laurel Parmet ’20 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) and Kara Durrett ’10 (BFA, Drama) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Martisse Hill ’14 and Julius Pryor ’13 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Shuli Huang ’23 (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

UNDERGRADUATE FILM & TELEVISION

Aubrey Plaza '06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a SAG Award

Zack Akers '09 & Skip Bronkie '09 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were recognized in The Black List for their script

Will Simmons '21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was recognized in The Black List for their script

Kieran Turner '92 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was recognized in The Black List for their script

Christine Choy, Undergraduate Film & Television Professor, received Hot Docs’ Outstanding Achievement Award at the 30th anniversary Festival

A. V. Rockwell ’12 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV)/(Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won multiple Sundance Film Festival Awards

Matt Wolf ’05 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won multiple Sundance Film Festival Awards

Sam Osborn ’11 (BFA, Kanbar, Institute, Film & TV / Journalism) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Pinar Binay (Undergraduate Film & Television) was accepted as a New Project Involve Fellow

ADRIANA GUEVARA
ADRIANA GUEVARA

Adriana Guevara (BFA Candidate, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for The Anne V. Coates Award in Student Editing

Ishana Night Shyamalan '21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) directed The Watchers

Alum Kevin Loh ’22 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Toronto Film Script Award, and also won the Best Web Series prize at the LA Indies for his film, Fitting

Parker Sack (BFA Candidate) won the 2023 Michael Collyer Fellowship in Screenwriting

Edward Berger '94 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple BAFTA Awards

Dean Fleischer Camp '07, Andrew Goldman '07 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), and Paul Mezey '96 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) were nominated for a BAFTA Award 

Daniela Rivera Antara ’18 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) presented her first solo exhibition with UNHCR, a humanitarian assistance institution run by the UN and the Ombudsman's Office

Emma DeMuth (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) received her first development and production credit for Diversion Audio, The Royals of Malibu, which became #1 on Spotify and Apple fiction charts

Jonathan Yi, Undergraduate Film & Television Professor, was featured in Post Magazine 

Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter (Current Senior, UGFTV) & Yueyao Wang '22 (BFA, UGFTV) received the Made Here Fund

Edward Berger '94 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won an Academy Award

Sang-Jin Bae, UGFTV Professor, was featured in Animation Magazine for his class, Introduction to Virtual Production 

CINEMA STUDIES

Manthia Diawara’s, Professor of Cinema Studies, film AI: African Intelligence featured in the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival

Toby Leem, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, gave the keynote talk at Brown's Modern Culture & Media Graduate Student Colloquium and gave a talk at Columbia's Cinema & Interdisciplinary Interpretation University Seminar

Josslyn Luckett, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, introduced and moderated two panels at the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts symposium at University of Chicago. Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, also participated in a panel for the festival

Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies, published a short story, Can We Be Difficult Together? in Pacifica Literary Review

Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies, published an essay “District Sales Managers” for Social Text

Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, was a visiting exchange faculty member at University College in Dublin

Bob Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies, published Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze: Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought with Bloomsbury Press

Zhen Zhang, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, served as dramaturg/consultant for the multimedia dance performance, I am 60

Jasper Lauderdale (PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies) published "'There existed an addiction to blood': Exhuming the Transtemporal Body” in Black Camera vol. 14, no. 2 (2023): 275–94

Haneul Lee (PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies) received the Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration by the NYU Migration Network

FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS
FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

Christopher Miles ’09 (MA, Cinema Studies) won a Sundance Film Festival Award

Ricky D’Ambrose ‘10 (BFA, Cinema Studies) won a Film Independent Spirit Award

Tasha Randhawa (MIAP student) started a position at The Museum of Modern Art as an Audiovisual Archivist

Zhongtong Xie (BA Candidate, Cinema Studies) was awarded an Undergraduate Humanities Fellowship as a member of the Center for Humanities inaugural cohort

Doug Dibbern ‘10 (PhD, Cinema Studies) published Cinema’s Doppelgangers, a counterfactual history of Cinema, with Punctum Books

Ed Guerrero and Artel Great ’17 (PhD, Cinema Studies) co-edited Black Cinema & Visual Culture: Art and Politics in the 21st Century, published by Routledge

Laliv Melamed ’16 (PhD, Cinema Studies) published Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence with the University of California Press

Greg Nussen ’23 (MA, Cinema Studies) developed an essay titled, "Dissonant Yet True: Three Uncle Vanya Adaptations," that was accepted for publication in The Harbour Journal

RITA & BURTON GOLDBERG DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC WRITING

Ayo Edebiri '17 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a SAG Award

Madeleine Gavin '98 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won multiple Sundance Film Festival Awards

Laura Shovan '91 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) published a new book, Welcome to Monstervill

WRITERS GUILD AWARD NOMINEES
WRITERS GUILD AWARD NOMINEES

Dan EricksonTaffy Brodesser-AknerSamantha RileyMadeleine GeorgeDaniel GoldfarbAyo Edebiri, Megan Callahan-ShahBilly Domineau, and Celeste Yim (Dramatic Writing) all received 2023 Writers Guild nominations

Samuel D. Hunter '04 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a BAFTA Award

Sanaz Toossi '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won an Obie Award

Sarah Gancher '10 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won an Obie Award

Habib Yazdi, Brooke Bethel, and Jojo Jones (Dramatic Writing) won a 2023 Goldberg Playwriting Award