Our students, faculty, staff, and alumni crushed it this year! Check out some of their honors, awards and achievements below.
Institute of Performing Arts
Art & Public Policy
M.A. students for class “The Cultural Imperative: Intersections in Cultural Equity, Cultural Arts & Public Policy” traveled to Puerto Rico to create murals with artist Edgardo Larregui.
Professor Grace Aneiza Ali was interviewed by ‘Contemporary And’ to discuss her exhibition Liminal Space, presented at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).
Professor Ella Shohat, recipient of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award, celebrates the publication of her book On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements Selected Writings.
Founding Chair Randy Martin was honored by Imagining America.
Professor Grace Aneiza Ali released a new publication of Of Note Magazine, highlighting gun violence as a women’s issue.
Chair Kathy Engel moderated the Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers.
Dr. Hentyle Yapp presented "Deleuze Your Daddy?: The Mirror as Method for China" at the College Art Association (CAA) Conference in Los Angeles.
Dr. Ella Shohat released new book, On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements.
Pato Hebert shared "Much Better than A Like: Art and the Organizing of New Worlds" at the CAA Conference on February 24th.
Anna Deveare Smith premiered ‘Notes from the Field’ on HBO.
Two poems written by professor, Kathy Engel, were featured in Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.
Anna Deavere Smith, Art & Public Policy Professor, joined Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Obama in conversation at “Change the Conversation, Change the System” moderated by CNN’s Van Jones.
Pato Hebert, Art & Public Policy Professor, was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to guide the residents from Palo Verde Apartments in a series of workshops to develop a zine.
Professor Pato Hebert received the Juror’s Choice Award from PH21 Gallery for his exhibition, Staged.
Pato Hebert published Ataqueridas series in newly release English edition of the Queer City Reader.
Leah Natasha Thomas, Art & Public Policy alumna, directed a video ‘Who Will Keel For You?’ which included artists, faculty and alumni, such as Anna Deavere Smith, Danny Glover, Oskar Eustis and Anooj Bhandari reciting Professor Kathy Engel’s “To Kneel”.
Dr. Laura Harris joined the Department of Art & Public Policy as an Assistant Professor of Feminist Practices in the Americas.
Dr. Ella Shohat of Art & Public Policy was awarded a Middle East Monitor Palestine Book award in the Memoir category for her book, On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements.
Alumni Anooj Bhandari hosted a conversation with Bill T. Jones for Community Day Forum: Come Together with Tisch Dance.
Dance
Tisch Dance students volunteered at the Times Square Portal project in collaboration with Shared Studios and the Al-Anqaa Dance Company.
Associate Professor Pamela Pietro was featured in Dance Teacher Magazine with demonstration images featuring student Zuri Ford.
Professor Cari Ann Shim Sham won the Best Virtual Reality Video Award at the Independent Film Festival.
Associate Chair Rashaun Mitchell, in collaboration with video artist, Charles Atlas, presented performance piece, Tesseract, at BAM.
Tisch Dance graduate student, Esther Siddiquie receives scholarship from Daad in Germany.
Alumna Faye Driscoll has been awarded the Jacob’s Pillow Award for 2018.
Tisch Dance’s SADC took a masterclass with The Nashville Ballet’s artistic director, and NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts 2017 fellow, Paul Vasterling.
Students and faculty conducted The Choreography Seminar hosted at Tisch featuring student works from: Adelphi University, Hofstra University, Marymount Manhattan College, Montclair State University and NYU.
IPA and NYU Tisch Dance presented a Community Forum directed by Katy Pule, Artistic Director of Ballex: Ballet for the Queer Body.
Graduate Dance students remade Anna Halprin’s Ceremony of Us with help of Adjunct Professor Wendy Perron.
Tisch Dancers Zuri Ford, Imani Moss, Kristen Coco, and Riana Pellicane Hart were featured in the February 2018 issue of Dance Spirit Magazine.
Dance Chair Sean Curran produced The Pirates of Penzance at the San Diego Opera.
Design for Stage & Film
Chair Susan Hilferty was nominated for Outstanding Costume Design at the Drama Desk Awards for Present Laughter.
Professor Peter Nigrini was nominated for Outstanding Projection Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Dear Evan Hansen and Wakey, Wakey.
Alumna Jennifer Vogt was the Show Design and Production Executive for Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Alumnus Bradley King won Best Lighting Design of a Musical at the 71st Tony Awards for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Alumna Jane Cox was nominated for Best Lighting Design at the 71st Tony Awards for August Wilson’s Jitney.
Alumna Laura Jellinek was nominated for Outstanding Set Design for a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for A Life.
Chair Susan Hilferty was nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for Present Laughter.
Alumna Tilly Grimes was nominated for Outstanding Costume Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Underground Railroad Game.
Alumna Mimi Lien was nominated for Outstanding Scenic Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Signature Plays: Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornés’ Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro.
Alumna Laura Jellinek won Oustanding Scenic Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for A Life.
Alumnus Paul Hackenmuller was featured on Wenger & J.R. Clancy.
Alumnus Mark Koss was featured in the Redlands Daily Facts.
Chair Susan Hilferty won Outstanding Costume Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Love, Love, Love.
Alumna Jane Cox was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Othello.
Alumna Mimi Lien won Best Scenic Design of a Musical at the 71st Tony Awards for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Alumnus Mark Barton won Outstanding Lighting Design at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Signature Plays: Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornés’ Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro.
Alumus Mark Bridges won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design in Phantom Thread.
Drama
Theater Mitu, founded by Chair Rubén Polando, received a 2017 MAP Fund grant for latest work Remnant.
Drama student Nazareth Hagood received the 2017 Young Playwright Award.
Lady Gaga was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for song “Million Reasons” and Best Pop Vocal Album for Joanne at the 60th Grammy Awards.
Alumnus Chris Betts received the Julie Taymor World Theater Fellowship.
Kayla Zanakis launched a Hurricane Relief Effort in coordination with the New York City Mayor’s Office.
Alumna Gina Rodriguez made a surprise visit to students in the Department of Drama Experimental Theatre Wing.
Sarah Silverman was nominated for Best Comedy Album at the 60th Grammy Awards for A Speck of Dust.
Alumnus Douglas Urbanski was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards for his producer role of Darkest Hour.
Drama alum Nelson Franklin won the 2018 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for VEEP.
Alumna Sarah Sutherland won the 2018 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for VEEP.
Alumna Amanda Lipitz was awarded Outstanding Documentary Film at the NAACP Image Awards for her director/producer role of STEP!
Drama senior Nacho Tambuting appears on NBC’s Rise.
Graduate Acting
Chair Mark Wing-Davey returned to his role of Zaphod Beeblebrox in the BBC Radio 4 reboot of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase.
Alumna Rose Gilmore was interviewed by Broadway World for her role in show The Importance of Being Earnest.
Alumnus Rashad Edwards published an article for the Huffington Post on his experience as an understudy for Broadway’s Sweat.
Michele Shay, Tisch Drama Professor, was honored by The Michael Chekov Association.
Associate Chair Laurence Mason premiered his documentary Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF).
Alumnus Jin Ha made his Broadway debut as Song Liling in M.Butterly.
Alumnus Sterling K. Brown was awarded Outstanding Lead Actor in A Drama Series at the Emmy Awards for his role as Randall Pearon in This Is Us.
Alumnus Mahershala Ali covered GQ Magazine.
Alumni Pascale Armand, Danai Gurira, and MaYaa Boateng were featured in The New York Times article “Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds”
Sterling K. Brown, Graduate Acting Alumnus, won the 2018 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for This Is Us.
Sterling K. Brown won the 2018 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for This Is Us.
Susan Kelechi Watson, Graduate Acting Alumna, won the 2018 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for This Is Us.
Andre Holland, Graduate Acting alumnus, played Othello in the Shakespearean play, performed by the Globe Theatre in London.
Sterling K. Brown, Graduate Acting alumnus, became the first Black actor to win the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama for “This Is Us”.
Alumna Leslie Fray performed in The Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
Alumnus Corey Stoll was interviewed by Vulture Magazine.
Jason Butler Harner, Graduate Acting alumnus, was interviewed by The Italian Reve.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
Alumnus Rob Hartmann was named Associate Producer of the Fredericia Theatre in Denmark.
Alumna and adjunct faculty member, Kirsten Childs, had her newest musical Bella: An American Tall Tale featured Off-Broadway at New York City’s Playwrights Horizons.
Alumni Dan Collins and Jullianne Wick Davis created a new musical adapted from Academy Award-winning short film Trevor.
Joel B. New, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Alumnus, was the 2017 recipient of the John Wallowitch Award for Songwriting presented by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets.
Alumni Ross Baum and Angelica Chéri were selected for the SigWorks: Musical Theater Lab to develop their work Gun & Powder.
Alumnus Michael R. Jackson was announced one of five New Writers in Residence at the Lincoln Center Theater.
Alumna Rachel Peters was announced one of six recipients of Opera Grants for Female Composers by Opera America.
Rob Hartmann, Liv Cummins and Scott Keys, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing alumni, produced their musical Vanishing Point at the Seattle Public Theater.
BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE, written by adjunct professor Kirsten Childs, was nominated for Best Musical at the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards.
KPOP, with songs by Helen Park & Max Vernon, was nominated for Best Musical at the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards.
KPOP received the 2018 Richard Rodgers Development Award.
GUN AND POWDER by Angelica Chéri and Ross Baum received the 2018 Richard Rodgers Development Award.
Amanda Yesnowitz, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing alumna, won the 2018 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre.
Alumna Diana Oh’s play {my lingerie play}, was produced at Rattlestick Theater.
Alumni Mini Dickstein, Kirsten Guenther and J. Oconer Navarrao, premiered their musical Benny and Joon at Old Globe.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing alumni Helen Park, Max Vernon, and Sujin Park received critical acclaim for their new immersive musical, KPOP.
Joe Iconis’ musical Be More Chill will play a limited engagement Off-Broadway.
Department Chair Sarah Schlesinger of, released cast album for musical The Ballad of Little Jo.
Michael John LaChiusa, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Adjunct faculty member, had his musical Hello Again adapted into a new film.
Alum Michael R. Jackson will have his work, A Strange Loop, featured in the 2018-19 season at Playwrights Horizons.
Performance Studies
André Lepecki was appointed Chair of The Department of Performance Studies.
Manion Kuhn was featured in The Wrong Water, an exhibition curated by Peripheral Forms.
Ph.D. Candidate Adrienne Edwards presented AFROGLOSSIA at the Performa 17 Biennial.
M.A. Candidate Jeanann Dara performed with the Darmstadt Ensemble.
Performance Studies alum Summer Kim Lee has accepted a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College
Department Co-Founder Richard Schechner received two honorary doctorates from Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and Sapienza, Università di Roma in Rome.
Alumna Molly Castelloe screened her award-winning documentary Vamik’s Room at the Psychology and The Other Conference in Cambridge, MA.
M.A. Candidate Matt Fennelly performed in the Old Library Theatre’s production of Catch Me If You Can.
Alumna Kristen Holfeuer directed Angela Kemp’s Bear at the Short Cuts Theatre Festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Associate Professor Barbara Browning received astounding praise from The New York Times for her latest novel The Gift (Or, Techniques of the Body).
Alumna Andrea Ceasar performed Ntrinsik Movement’s Timeless at the Kumble Theater.
Ph.D. Candidate Tara Aisha Willis was profiled by the Chicago Tribune.
Student Genée Coreno’s The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls ran at The Brick Theater.
Performance Studies chair André Lepecki was featured in SON[I]A, a podcast presented by the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
Alumna Leticia Robles-Moreno became a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Muhlenberg College.
Associate Professor Alexandra Vazquez joined Eric Lott and Ivy Wilson in conversation for Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism at CUNY.
Alumna Jeongyun Lee premiered two shows at La Mama Puppet Slam and Dixon Place.
Student Jeremy Swanton was featured on Broadway World for new musical Science Fair: A Game-Changing New Musical.
B.A. Candidate Manion Kuhn presented "Liquid, site, bottle, body: Ecologies of Digital Distribution" at the Spring 2018 Steinhardt Educational Theatre Forum: Performance as Activism.
B.A. Candidate Melissa McDonald hosted "The Land of the Mutts!" with the Biracial and Multiracial Students Association at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Student Melissa McDonald co-produced Dreamscapes.
Assistant Professor Malik Gaines presented “A History of Impossible Progress” as part of the e-flux lecture series.
Student Melissa McDonald premiered her virtual reality music video experience, “Congruence” at Virtual Reality NYC in collaboration with Efrain Aguilar and Clive Davis’ Noah Levinson.
Alumna Amalia Cordova participates in the international observatory for cultural heritage symposium.
Student Jeremy Swanton, co-writer of Science Fair: A Game Changing New Musical Off-Broadway, makes his Feinstein’s/54 Below and New York City concert debut
Bianca Felix, Performance Studies M.A. Candidate, presented her thesis “Material Temporalities; Petrit Halilaj and Lost Objects in Kosovo” at What Now?
Graduate student Alice Cash will direct Sam Holcroft’s play, Edgar and Annabel at Arts on Site.
Assistant professor Malik Gaines leads exercise at BAM based on in Terms of Performance.
PHD student Adrienne Edwards was appointed as The Whitney Museum’s Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance.
Yaneirie Rondon premiered her latest show “End of April” at The Hudson Guild Theater as part of the New York Winterfest Festival.
Alumna Vanessa Vargas performed her choreographic project “humo” at Dixon place.
Barbara Browning, Performance Studies Professor, launched new book Who The Hell Is Imre Lodbrog? at Dixon Place.
Alexandra Vazquez, Performance Studies Associate Professor, gave lecture for Yale’s Black Sound & the Archive event series.
Fred Moten and Malik Gaines, both Performance Studies’ Professors, received the 2018 United States Artists Fellowship.
Justine Shih Pearson, M.A. Performance Studies alumna, published her new book Choreographing the Airport: Field Notes from the Transit Space of Global Mobility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Matthew Wilson, M.A. Performance Studies Candidate, was awarded the Tisch GSO Interdepartmental Grant to facilitate a collective writing exchange between NYU Tisch and the College of Staten Island.
Ivan Espinosa, Performance Studies M.A. Candidate, published essay “A Ride on the Magic Mushroom” in NYU’s Caustic Frolic.
Jeanann Seidman, Performance Studies M.A. Candidate, performed at Carnegie Hall as part of Birkin Gainsbourg The Symphonic with Jane Birkin and Wordless Music Orchestra.
Alumna Megan Nicely has announced her tenure position at the University of San Francisco.
Alum Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li directed a work-in-progress production of “L.EAR” at Dixon Place.
Alum Christof Migone was promoted to a tenure Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
Jessica Pabon, a Performance Studies alumna, was accepted to present her paper “Bisexual Boricua: A Testimonia on the Limitations of Feeling (Brown and Queer) and Feeling Limitations” at the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona, Spain.
Alumna Barbara Cohen-Stratyner received the Louis Rachow Distinguished Service Award from Theatre Library Association.
Open Arts
Open Arts students were lectured by award-winning sound producer, Chris Newman.
Faculty member Angela Pietropinto co-directed Anna Ziegler's play A Delicate Ship.
Professor Paul Lazar and his company Big Dance Theater performed a new piece as part of the BAM 2017 Next Wave festival.
Professor Brane Zivkovic was featured in the Fall 2017 Progression publication.
Angela Pietropinto, Head of Open Arts, was honored at the Italian Consulate for this year's Italian Heritage and Culture Month.
Professor Brane Zivkovic invited Walter Murch to Skype in with his open arts course to discuss Murch’s new film, Coup 53.
Professor Jeffrey Stanley has work titled Tesla’s Letters produced by Cornerstone Theatre Arts in Goshen, New York.
Visiting Open Arts Artist, Jill Sigman’s book Ten Huts was published by Wesleyan University Press.
Professor Sheldon Woodbury was featured in a series the 2017 Horror Anthologies.
Professor Diane Hodson worked on Pineapple Street’s latest project Heaven’s Gate.
Faculty member Diane Hodson received a grant from the Graham Foundation for her new documentary project, Million Dollar Block.
Professor Charlie Schulman is part of the creative team of Goldstein, an Off-Broadway production.
Faculty member Eric Juhola received a grant co-presented by Sundance Institute and the Arcus Foundation for audience engagement and social impact.
Professor Stephen Michaels performed a decade-spanning collection of music at the Sidewalk Café’s ‘Midnight on the West Side’.
Open Arts student Melissa Bartow’s campaign “Wanna Date?” launched as part of new Crowdfunding Video Production course.
Elizabeth Hess, Open Arts adjunct professor, produced “Love Trade” with her company The Hess Collective which premiered at La MaMa.
Angela Pietropinto, Open Arts professor, was featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Jill Sigman, 2017 Visiting Artist and ART MATTERS instructor, wrote an article titled “Interpretive Protest?” published in The New Yorker.
Sheldon Woodbury, Open Arts professor, published four recent anthologies including Surreal Nightmare II, Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology, What Dwells Below, and Year's Best Transhuman SF 2017 Anthology (Volume 1).
William Electric Black, Open Arts faculty member, presented a new play entitled “GUNPLAYS” in an interview on ABC7.
Donna Cameron, Open Arts adjunct professor, featured film “Meditation for a Lonely Flute” with flutist Barbara Siesel live in concert at the International Gonjiam Music Festival.
Pat Hoffbauer, Open Arts Professor, participated in Movement Research at Judson Church.
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Cinema Studies
Dr. Howard Besser, Professor and MIAP founding Director, contributed to an Archives for Artists program in Denver, CO.
Alumnus Jacob Zaborowski joined the Getty Research Institute’s digital content management and preservation program.
Three graduates of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) MA Program, Walter Forsberg, Pamela Vízner, and Stefan Elnabli, co-led workshops at the Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision / International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) 2017 World Conference in Mexico City this month.
The National Film Preservation Foundation awarded two grants to fund students of MIAP under the facilitation of professor Bill Brand and BB Optics, a media preservation and post-production company.
Rebecca Guenther, a MIAP professor, received an Innovation Award at the Opening Plenary of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's 2017 Digital Preservation Conference.
MIAP student Danielle Calle was featured by Remezcla.
MIAP alumni’s have contributed to XFR Collective, digitizing and preserving time-based media artworks from obsolete formats.
MIAP alumna Siobhan Hagan founded Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) and acquired historic tv collection from Baltimore.
MIAP alumnus Eddy Colloton contributed to an Archives for Artists program in Denver, CO.
Alumna Siobhan Hagan was featured in the Baltimore Sun.
Alison Griffiths (PhD ‘98) was selected as a Guggenheim fellow.
MIAP’s Shahed Dowlatshahi was awarded a grant by the Film Noir Foundation to support his graduate studies.
MIAP students organized an Audiovisual Preservation Exchange in Spain in order to safeguard the world’s audiovisual heritage.
Professor Dana Polan was interviewed by Senses of Cinema.
Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
Students Stephanie McFarlane and Bryce Ahert were selected for HBOAccess 2017 Writing Fellowship.
Alumnus Donald Glover received Breakthrough Series - Long Form award for his creator/executive producer role of Atlanta at the 2017 Gotham Independent Film Awards.
Alumni R. Shanea Williams and Nikyatu Just received grants from Tribeca Studios’ Through Her Lens program.
Alumni Joanna Alpern and Josh Brown were selected for 2017-2018 Nickelodeon Writing Program.
Alumna Annie Baker was selected as a 2017-2018 MacArthur Fellow.
Issac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger won Outstanding Drama Series at the 2017 Emmy Awards for their co-executive producer roles of This Is Us.
Alumnus Donald Glover won Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series at the 2017 Emmy Awards for Atlanta, B.A.N.
Alumnus Phil Gurin won Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the 2017 Emmy Awards for his executive producer role of Shark Tank.
Professor Richard Wesley won Best Playwright and Dramatic Production of the Year at the Audelco Awards for his play, Autumn.
Alumna Megan Callahan won Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series at the 2017 Emmy Awards for Saturday Night Live.
Alumnus Donald Glover won Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series at the 2017 Emmy Awards for his role as Earn Marks in Atlanta.
Alumnus Phil Gurin won Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his executive producer role of Shark Tank.
Donald Glover was nominated for Record of the Year, Best R&B Song, and Best Traditional R&B Performance for song "Redbone" and Album of the Year, Awaken, My Love at the 60th Grammy Awards.
Lily Camp won the Goldberg Play Prize for her play “Best Friend/Person/Girlfriend”
Professor Charles Rubin won NYU’s Distinguished Teacher Award.
DDW Professors Lucas Hnath and Suzan-Lori Parks receive Windham-Campbell Prizes in Drama
Alumna Shamar White debuted her first staff writer episode of the CW Network’s show, Valor.
Alumnus Donald Glover won a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance for his song “Redbone”.
Professor Richard Wesley was honored by the African-American Film Critics’ Association in conjunction with The Black List. Henceforth, the Best Screenplay Award is titled to The Richard Wesley Screenwriter Award presented by the Black List.
Sono Patel, Dramatic Writing alumna, was named one of “30 Under 30” by Forbes.
Janet Beard, Dramatic Writing alumna, debuted new novel The Atomic City Girls.
Alumus Daniel Kellison won Outstanding Variety Special at the 2017 Emmy Awards for his executive producer role of Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust.
Graduate Film
Professor Spike Lee received the NYU Martin Luther King Jr., Humanitarian Award.
Students’ Raven Johnson and Ben Kallam were named finalists in the AT&T Entertainment Project for their respective shorts, Tween and Red Folder.
Student Tony Koros won the Alexis Award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the Palm Springs Shortest for his film Chebet.
Student Artemis Shaw screened his film Single Room Occupancy at the Village East Cinema.
Student Max Walker-Silverman’s film Get Away premiered at Radiance Film Festival in London.
MFA Candidate Chloé Zhao was nominated for the Bonnie Award at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards, recognizing a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.
MFA candidate Shevaun Mizrahi was nominated for the Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award for directing film Distant Constellation at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards, presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features with a $25,000 unrestricted grand funded by the Jeep brand.
Professor Jennifer Ruff was interviewed by FilmSupply.
Sontenish Myers’ Cross My Heart was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Professor Peggy Rajski screened her first film The Brother From Another Planet at the MoMA.
Professor Julia Solomonoff screened her film Nobody’s Watching at Film Forum.
Anthony Janelli, Head of Cinematography, and Alex Rockwell, Head of Directing, both were interviewed in podcasts for Kodakery.
Alumnus James Franco was honored Top 10 Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for his director/producer role in The Disaster Artist.
Student Evan Karg’s MOS film Earthly Delights screened at NewFest.
Student Gracie Vergara was awarded a grant from the Cinematografo film festival to producer a short film about Filipino-Americans.
Student Kevin Wilson Jr. won Best Director at HollyShorts for his film My Nephew Emmett.
Student Mamdou Did was selected for the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab.
Student Stephanie Bollag was interviewed by Brandstorytelling for her fashion film A Tale of Endurance: Celebration of the Imperfect.
Student Ian Barling’s film Deterrent played at the LA Shorts International Film Festival.
Student Kevin Wilson Jr. won the prestigious Gold Medal Award for Domestic Narrative at the 2017 Student Academy Awards for his film My Nephew Emmett. This honor has made him eligible for the short-film categories at the 2017 Academy Awards.
Students were visited by ‘The Maestro’, Vittorio Storaro.
Student Emilijia Gasic’s MOS film, Little Wolf, premiered at Mykonos Biennale in Greece.
Student Alfonso Herrera Salcedo’s film Los premeired at the 15th Festival Internacíonal de Cine de Morelia in Mexico.
Student Jomo Fray was interviewed by Shadow and Act about the future of VR and his role as cinematographer for short film, Haunt.
Alumni Dagny Looper and Jean Pesce were two of six screenwriters chosen to participate in the 5th Annual Black List Feature Writers Lab.
Professor Julia Solomonoff has completed a new film Nobody’s Watching that premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.
Alumnus Melani Schiele’s screenplay was selected for the 2017 Purple List
Graduate Film student Kevin Wilson and alumna Marie Dvorakova won two of three awards in the Domestic Narrative category at 2017 Student Academy Awards for their respective films, My Nephew Emmett and Who’s Who in Mycology.
Student Chloe Zhao and alumnus Jonas Carpignano received top honors at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the section ‘Directors’ Fortnight’.
Alumna Mia Coiffi Henry and student Kevin Wilson Jr. were selected for the 55th New York Film Festival Shorts Program 3: New York Stories category for her director of photography role in Cheer Up Baby and Wilson’s My Nephew Emmett.
Alumna Laura Moss won Best Short Film at the Melbourne Grand Prix for her film Fry Day.
Alumna Myosin Arstidou’s thesis film Aria was selected for the 2017 Venice Biennale Film Festival.
Alumnus James Franco was featured in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival for his film The Disaster Artist.
Jovan James debuted his short film The Jump Off at the 21st Annual Urbanworld Film Festival.
Alumnus James Franco received Best Actor at the 2017 Gotham Independent Film Awards for The Disaster Artist.
Alumnus Brett Morgen was awarded Best Documentary by the 2017 National Board of Review for his director/producer role in Jane for National Geographic.
Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch were selected for the 55th New York Film Festival in the Robert Mitchum Retrospective category for their works Cape Fear (1991) and Dead Man, respectively.
Alumni Dee Rees and Chloé Zhao were selected for the 55th New York Film Festival in the Main Slate category for their works Mudbound and The Rider, respectively.
Na’ama Keha’s “Shelter” was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Alumna Abbess Akhamie is featured in ‘Short Cuts’ section of the Toronto International Film Festival for her film Still Water Runs Deep.
Alumni Chloé Zhao, Joshua James Richards, and Mollye Asher are featured in ‘Special Presentations’ section of the Toronto Film Festival for their film The Rider.
Alumna Ingrid Jungermann was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for her film, Women Who Kill.
Alumnus Joshua James Richards was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for film, The Rider.
Alumna Jonas Carpignano and MFA Candidate Chloé Zhao were nominated for Best Director at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for their respective films, A Ciambra and The Rider.
Alumna Dee Rees was featured in the Gala Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival for her film Mudbound.
Alumna Sara Driver was featured in the TIFF Docs section of the Toronto International Film Festival for her film BOOM FOR REAL: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Alumna Lisa Bruce was featured in the Gala Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival for her film Darkest Hour.
Alumni John Trengrove won the International Grand Jury Prize at the Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival for his film The Wound.
Student Francesca Mirabella’s short film Modern Love was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Student Elegance Bratton was featured in out.com for her short Walk for Me.
Students Karishma Dube, Jovan James and Tamarin What, won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Narrative at the Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival for their film Goddess.
Student Haley Anderson’s film Get Out Fast was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Student Charlotte Wells was featured in the ‘Short Cuts’ section at the Toronto International Film Festival for her film Blue Christmas.
Sara Shaw’s “Tooth and Nail” was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Professor Eliza Hittman won Best Screenwriting in a U.S. Feature at the Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival for her film Beach Rats.
Alumna Dania Bdeir’s latest short IN WHITE, set in Beirut, Lebanon, won the International Grand Prize at Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival, qualifying her for an Oscar nomination.
Alumni Mollye Asher and MFA Candidate Chloé Zhao were nominated for Best Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for their film, The Rider.
Alumna Atsuko Hirayanagi was nominated for Best First Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for her film, Oh Lucy!
Sasie Sealy and Angela Cheng have won the $1 million AT&T Presents: Untold Stories pitch contest for their film Lucky Grandma.
Jacqueline Dow was selected as a semi-finalist for the HBOAccess Directing Fellowship.
Professor Carol Dysinger was selected as a Guggenheim fellow.
Alumna Joyce Sherri’s short film Beauty debuted with Project Her.
Karishma Dube’s short film Devi was selected as one of the #FiveFilms4Freedom by the British Council and BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Alumnus James Franco was nominated for Best Male Lead at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for his film, The Disaster Artist.
Terrance Daye, Aimee Schaefer, Alexander Etseyatse, and Daliso Leslie, were awarded the Spike Lee Film Production Fund.
Brittany “B. Monét” Fennell’s Q.U.E.E.N. was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival
3rd year student Na’ama Keha was chosen to be the 2018 recipient of the Ronit Elkabetz "Rising Star" Pomegranate Award by the 21st New York Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.
Alumnus Jonas Carpignano won the David di Donatello Award for Best Director for his film A Ciambra, which also took home the award for Best Editing.
Thesis student Kevin Vu’s short film Splendona was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Thesis student Elegance Bratton’s new show My House premiered on Viceland on April 25th.
Desiree Akhavan and Sara Shaw are featured at the Tribeca Film Festival for The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Dagny Atencio Looper’s Sleeping with the Dead was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Alumni Faraday Okoro, Oscar Hernandez, Sheldon Chau, and professor Spike Lee are featured at The Tribeca Film Festival for Nigerian Prince
Jacqueline Dow’s, Little Hope, was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival
Alum Shawn Snyder is featured at the Tribeca Film Festival for To Dust.
Stephanie Donnelly’s, The Adventures of Penny Patterson, was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Dagny Atencio Looper’s, Simulation, was announced as a finalist at the Fusion Film Festival.
Alum Jean Pesce is featured at the Tribeca Film Festival for So You Like The Neighborhood.
Alumnus Jomo Fray’s short film, Emergency, won the Narrative Jury Award at SXSW.
Dee Rees received the Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble Cast as the director for the film Mudbound at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Chloé Zhao received the Bonnie Award for her film The Rider at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Alumna Atsuko Hirayanagi's film, Oh Lucy, premiered in theaters around New York.
The Tribeca Film Institute announced that thesis student Francesca Mirabella was one of 10 All-Access Grant winners.
First year Graduate Film student Jess X. Snow's short Afterearth played at Outfest.
Third year Graduate Film student Ria Tobaccowala's short film, Life After, screened at Outfest.
Kevin Wilson Jr. was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards for his short, My Nephew Emmett.
Jess X Snow screened her documentary film, Afterearth, at Sundance Film Festival.
Spike Lee, Graduate Film Artistic Director, Professor and Alumnus, premiered Pass Over at SXSW.
Kasi Lemmons, Graduate Film Professor, announced new opera “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” commissioned by The Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
Michael Larnell, Graduate Film Alumnus, premiered film Roxanne on Netflix.
Vera Sjunnesson, Graduate Film alumna, was selected for Le Group Ouest Scriptwrting Lab.
Graduate Film alumna Mary Evangelista's short film, Fran This Summer screened at Outfest
Laura Moss, Graduate Film alumna, premiered Allen Anders - Live at the Comedy Castle (circa 1987) at SXSW.
Charles Rogers, Graduate Film Alumna, premiered Men Don’t Whisper at SXSW.
Alumni Sara Shaw and Mollye Asher premiered Tooth and Nail at SXSW.
Graduate Film alumna Desiree Akhaven and her crew, which included alumna Sara Shaw, took home the top honor of U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance for the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Alumnus Reinaldo Marcus Green, who took home the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance for his film Monsters and Men.
Alumna Sara Colangelo's adaptation of an Israeli film, The Kindergarten Teacher, was awarded the Directing Award for the U.S. Dramatic category at Sundance.
Alumna Cathy Y. Yan won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at Sunday for her film Dead Pigs.
Graduate Film alumnus Federico Cesca was interviewed by Filmmaker Magazine for his cinematography work on Dead Pigs.
Alumnus Andrij Parekh was interviewed by Filmmaker Magazine for his cinematography work on The Catcher Was a Spy.
Chloe Zhao, Mollye Asher (producer) and Joshua James Richards (cinematographer), premiered film The Rider at Sundance and Chloe was interviewed by Deadline.
Debra Granik premiered film Leave No Trace at Sundance with pickup from Bleeker Street and Sony Worldwide Acquisitions.
Graduate Film alumna Tamara Jenkins showed two films at Sundance, co-writer of Juliet, Naked and writer and director of Private Life, receiving great reviews from Hollywood Reporter and Vanity Fair.
Dee Rees, Graduate Film Alumna, was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards for her direction of film, Mudbound.
Lisa Bruce, Graduate Film Alumna (‘91), was nominated for six awards at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture for her producer role of film, The Darkest Hour.
Alumni Chloe Zhao, Mollye Asher and Joshua James Richards premiered The Rider at SXSW.
Lin Que Ayoung was awarded a scholarship from New York Women in Film & Television.
Graduate Film student Alexander Etseyatse, premiered film Otis at SXSW.
Laurel Akira Parmet and Lisa Duva premiered Kira Burning at SXSW.
Nicholas Ma premiered Won’t You Be My Neighbor? At SXSW.
Spike Lee, Graduate Film Artistic Director, Professor and Alumnus, received the NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award.
Stefon Bristol, Graduate Film Alumnus, streamed his short film See You Yesterday on HBO.
Laurie Collyer, Graduate Film Alumna, was tapped to direct Hope’s Wish.
Undergraduate Film & Television
Alumnus Max R.A. Fedore was awarded first place in the Alternative category at the Student Academy Awards for his film Opera of Cruelty.
Alumni Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie have created new musical theater podcast, 36 Questions.
Lorne Michaels, from the Dean’s Council, and alumnus Brian Siedlecki, were awarded 2017 Emmy’s in Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for their respective positions of Creator/Executive Producer/Producer and Co-Producer/Associate Producer of Saturday Night Live.
Alumnus Jason Baum was nominated for Best Music Video for his video producer role in Kendrick Lamar's Humble at the 60th Grammy Awards.
Beach Rats, produced by Andrew Goldman (’07) and Paul Mezey (’96), and executive produced by Philipp Engelhorn (’07) and Michael Raisler (’07), was released in theaters.
Alumnus Vince Gilligan (’98) won Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his film Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training.
Alumnus Alex Baldwin (’94) won Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series at the 2017 Emmy Awards for his role as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
Alumna Alexa Lim Haas is scheduled to premier short, Agua Viva, at 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Alumnus Chris Jenkins (’88) won Sound Mixing For a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera) at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his role as Re-Recording Mixer of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week.
Alumnus Larry Hoff (’74) won Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Limited Series Or Movie at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his role as Production Mixer for The Night Of and The Beach.
Alumna Reed Morano (’01) won Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series at the 2017 Emmy Award for her directed work in The Handmaid's Tale • Offred (Pilot).
Alumna Kyra Thompson (’86) won Outstanding Reality-Competition Program at the 2017 Emmy Awards for her Co-Executive Producer of The Voice.
Alumni Larry Fessenden and Chadd Harbold were nominated for the John Cassavetes Award for film, Most Beautiful Island, at the 2018 Film Independent Awards for film, given to best feature made for under $500,000.
Alumnus Sean Baker was nominated for Best Director at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for film, The Florida Project.
Alumnus Ronald Bronstein was nominated for Best Editing at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for film, Good Time.
Alumna Dee Rees was nominated for the Robert Altman Award for film at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for film, Mudbound.
Musa Speed (’06) was honored Top 10 Independent Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for his writer role in Menashe.
Undergraduate Film & TV students Jacob Small Kara Bartek, Brenna Gehlen, Gabriella Salemi, Blake Lyon and Jamie Christina Osganian won Best Web Series at Top Short for their film, Reunion.
Alumnus Fred Elmes (’75) won Outstanding Cinematography For A Limited Series Or Movie at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his role as ASC, Director of Photography in the film, The Night Of and Ordinary Death.
Alumnus Chris Columbus was nominated for Best First Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Awards for his film, Patti Cake$.
Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus were honored Top 10 Independent Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for their respective roles of producer and executive producer of Patti Cake$.
Alumna Erica Lou won NBR Student Grant and 2017 Marion Carter Green Award for her film Ocean Song.
Alumni Igor Kropotov was featured on the profiled for Action Magazine Issue 7.
Alumnus Allen Kelman (’77) won Outstanding Special Class Program at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his role as Producer of the 70th Annual Tony Awards.
Professor John Canemaker presented a film lecture at the Colby College Museum of Art on the history of animation and art direction for the Disney film Bambi.
Faculty and slumna Zoya Baker won Best Short Film for her film Cranberry Lake at the 2017 Portland EcoFilm Festival.
Alumna Liza Chasin (’87) was honored Top 10 Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for her executive producer role in Baby Driver.
Alumnus Ian Hutchinson (’03) was honored Top 10 Independent Movies for his executive producer role in Loving Vincent.
Alumnus Joseph Cedar (’95) was honored Top 10 Independent Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for his director/writer role in Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.
Alumna Lizzie Shapiro was one of six selected for the New Film Independent Producing Lab Fellowship.
Alumnus Joe Mann (’07) was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s list of Hollywood’s Up-and-Coming Executives ‘Next Gen 2017’.
Alumnus Xackery Irving (’92) re-released his first film American Chain Gang.
Undergraduate Film & TV student Amanda Stenberg was included in the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Professor Joe Pichirallo spoke with WABC on the importance of women in Hollywood’s block-buster films, noting Alumna Patty Jenkins’ recent directorial work on Wonder Woman.
Alumnus Nick Quested (’93) was honored Top Five Documentaries by the 2017 National Board of Review for his director/producer role in Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS.
Alums Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch were honored Top 10 Movies by the 2017 National Board of Review for their producer roles in The Florida Project.
Alumna Alexa Lim Haas was selected as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film for Filmmaker Magazine.
Alumni Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch were nominated for Best Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for their film, The Florida Project.
Scott Rudin, Dean’s Council Member, was nominated for Best Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Awards for his film, Lady Bird.
Alumna Aubrey Plaza was nominated for Best First Feature at the 2018 Film Independent Awards for her film, Ingrid Goes West.
Professor Chitra Neogy’s feature length film A Warrior’s Walk Blood Words won at the World Woman Awards.
Alums Gina Petra Abatemarco and Shevaun Mizrahi, were selected as Guggenheim fellows.
Joan Baez debuted music video that was produced by professor Rick Litvin and animated by instructor Jeff Scher.
The audiobook of professor Chitra Neogy’s recently published epic novel Blood Words A Warrior’s Walk releases online.
Alumna Aubrey Plaza who produced Ingrid Goes West, won Best First Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Alumnus Jason Baum won a Grammy for Best Music Video as video producer for Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble”.
Giselle Bonilla, UGFTV alumna, received the Horizon Award for emerging female filmmakers.
UGFTV alumna Cheyenne Cohen was interviewed by UpByFive.
Institute of Emerging Media
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Faculty member Jim Anderson was nominated by the 60th Grammy Awards for Best Surround Sound Album for his surround mix engineer/surround producer role in Early Americans.
Clive Davis received the 'Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement' award at the National Arts Award 2017.
Alumni David Biral and Denzel Baptiste were nominated by the 60th Grammy Awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Free 6LACK.
Legendary rapper, musician, and producer, Q-Tip, announces that he will teach a course at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music alongside Grammy-winning journalist, producer, and writer Ashley Kahn
Professor Jim Anderson won a Grammy for Best Surround Sound Album as surround mix engineer and producer of Early Americans.
Alumnus Sean O’Brien won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album for “Sleep Well Beast” with band The National.
ITP
ITP students Jenny Lim, Chester Dols and Dana Abrassart, won the Intrexon Sustainable Food & Agriculture Prize at the BioDesign Challenge.
ITP students Seunghwan Sean Kim and Baris Siniksaran were featured on the Austrian radio show, Matrix.
Alumnus Ben Light and Executive Director for the Raspberry Pi Foundation Matt Richardson collaborated on a project for Raspberry Pi at NYC Maker Faire.
Alumni Karolina Ziulkoski and Andrea Wolf presented their exhibition Future Past News at the Smack Mellon Gallery.
NYU President Andrew Hamilton visited ITP, in lieu of upcoming move to Brooklyn campus and start of new BFA program, IMA (Interactive Media Arts).
ITP was featured in two Mashable articles on expansion to Brooklyn.
ITP student Ari Melenciano won Collab’s inaugural Invent-Her Pitch Competition with her Ojo Oro camera.
Alumna Sigi Moeslinger and former Adjunct Professor Masamichi Udagawa completed a new Atenna-designed mock-up of the next generation MTA/NYCT subway car.
Alumni Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Sarah Rothberg and Pedro Oliveira were profiled for their show at the Sotheby’s in the New York Times.
Faculty member Gabriel Barcia-Colombo was recognized for the VR/AR Award of the Lumen Prize with his work ‘Hereafter Life’.
Alumnus Peter DePietro won the International Award for Excellence for his article, Tech in Europe: Cultural Reboot, published by the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society.
ITP students Koji Kno, Nitish Wakalkar, Dimosthenis Markopoulos and Chetan Hasabnis were selected as eBay Start Up Finalists for their creation NGEMS (Next Generation Emergency System).
Jaycee Holmes, Stephanie Chambers, Terrick Gutierrez, Ari Melenciano, and ITP Alumna Sharon de la Cruz attended the inaugural Data for Black Lives Conference held at the MIT Media Lab.
Dimothenis Markopoulous, Koji Kno, Nitish Wakalkar and Chetan Hasabnis won first place at Silicon Harlem Hardware Startup Pitch competition for their project ‘NGEMS: Next Generation Emergency System’.
Tiri Kananuruk was featured in a new campaign for Teen Vogue.
Alumni Jesal Trivedi, Amitabh Shrivastava and Sean Kim were selected for the NYU Fall 2017 Prototyping Fund Awards.
ITP students and alumni participated in the annual NYC Media Lab 2017 Summit.
Or Fleisher was a fellow at the Viacom Music + VR Fellowship with Viacom NEXT and NYC Media Lab.
Students Hayton Hwang and Yeseul Song were recognized for the Interactive Award of the Lumen Prize with their work ‘Mirages: Light Experiments’.
ITP Students presented at the 2017 Microsoft Design Expo with their project, ‘Our Future With Books’.
Student Seunghwan Sean Kim was selected as a 2017 Dalai Lama Fellow.
Alumna Susan Leopold was featured in the SVA alumni exhibition Street Smart: The Intersection of Art and Design in the City at the SVA Chelsea Gallery.
Alumna Tirtza Even was one of 10 recipients of the 3Arts Chicago Artist grant.
Alumni Sarah Rothberg and Amelia Winger-Bearskin were featured in Engadget for their VR projects.
Alumna Sharang Biswas won the Dark Horse Award at IndieCade 2017 for his game ‘Feast'.
Alumnus Ralph Borland has work exhibited at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe as part of their International Congress of African Culture exhibition, African Voices.
Alumna Krystal Banzon was selected as a CBS Writers for 2017-2018 Mentoring Program.
Alumni Sean Kim and Kyle Greenberg were featured in the NYVR Expo 2017.
Alumnus Dhruv Mehrotra spoke at the Digital Impact NYC Conference.
Alumna Addie Wagenknecht was featured on The Creative Independent.
Alumna Natasha Dzurny appeared on ABC's 'The Toy Box' with her projects, TechnoChic Flashy Flowers and Blinky Bow ties.
Alumni Yuchen Zhang, Hellyn Teng and Jingwen Zhu, co-founders of Wearable Media, presented their first interactive fashion exhibition, 'Future Textile Library’.
Alumnus Shaul Olmert and his company, Playbuzz, raised $35 million in a new funding round.
Alumnus Nick Yulman was featured in two exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts and Dimenna Center Benzaquen Hall.
Alumnus Kyle Greenberg won an NYC Media Lab award for his project, M3diate.
Alumnus Rui Pereira was the keynote speaker at Heroes ’17, Italy’s startup and innovation festival.
Alumna Miriam Simun’s first show ‘A Wet Chemical Trace’ was exhibited at the Helena Anrather Gallery.
Alumna Jaime Levy was profiled in Creative Bloq.
Alumnus Abhishek Singh made an AR Hologram message through Star Wars.
Alumni Jody Culkin and Eric Hagan published their new book, Make: Learn Electronics With Arduino: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide To Physical Computing.
Alumni Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain have an online exhibition at The New Museum in New York City.
Steve Bodow (MPS, ITP ‘95) won Outstanding Short Form Variety Series at the 2017 Creative Emmy Awards for his role as Executive Producer of The Daily Show.
Dozens of ITP students and alumni participated in this year’s World Maker Faire.
Luqian Chen and Jingfei Lin presented Runway in Store at Verizon Demo Day.
Alumna Angela Perrone had her thesis project featured in Make Magazine.
Alumnus Fengyi Franklin Zhu had his thesis project featured in the Creator’s Project.
Alumnus Michael Clemow presented his project ‘Tabaci Memoriae’ as an artist-in-residence at Mana Contemporary Art Gallery
Alumnus Abhishek Singh recreated Super Mario Brothers in VR/AR throughout Washington Square Park.
Alumnus Tim Mohn has joined new Social Video Startup ‘Fresno’ as chief technology officer.
Alumnus Matt Fargo was profiled for IDEO.
Alumna Rebecca Lieberman was recognized at the Core77 Design Awards for her graduate thesis project, Mnemograph.
Alumni Ann Poochareon and Mark Argo were recognized at the Core77 Design Awards as runner up in open design for ‘Little Robot Friends’.
Alumna Karolina Ziulkoski was recognized at the Core77 Design Awards for her work ‘Wind | DKNY x New Inc’.
Alumnus Winslow Porter and partner, Milica Zec were featured in Adweek for their co-founded ‘New Reality Co.’
Alumnus Fengyuan Zhu was covered by TechCruch for assisting in the creation of new AR technology, HoloKit.
Alumnus Jared Lamenzo was featured in the New York Times.
Alumna Chang Liu was selected for residency at the Catwalk Institute.
Alumnus Evan Joseph presented his first solo exhibition, From Above, at the Chesterfield Gallery.
Alumni Joacim Quach and Ondina Frate will partake in the NYU eLab Summer Launchpad for their company, Myx Reality.
Alumnus Josh Begley received an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica for his work “Best of Luck With the Wall”.
Alumni Yasmin Elayat, Elle Zananiri and David Gochfeld received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica for their work “Zero Days VR”.
Alumni Yining Shi and Sagar Mohite published their new book, Jumpstarting the Arduino 101.
Alumna Marilyn Nance was included in the exhibition The Ties that Bind: Waves of Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Art and Society at the University of Chicago.
Alumni Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Sarah Rothberg were featured in Forbes.
Alumnus Peter Eder received the highest volunteer honor from AARP in Connecticut.
Alumnus Abhishek Singh was featured on Mashable for his creating of a polaroid-style gif camera.
Professor Gabriel Barcia-Colombo was selected as an artist-in-residence at Sotheby’s.
Adjunct professor Heather Dewey-Hagborg had a collaborative exhibit with Chelsea Managing.
Alumnus Leo Villarreal featured first solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery in NYC.
Alumnus Adam Harvey presented research on facial recognition algorithms at TEDxVilnius in Lithuania.
Alumna Allie Diracles rose $1.5 million for her startup Vidcode to teach teenagers coding.
Alumna Amy Khoshbin opened an exhibition, ‘Word on the Street’ in Times Square commissioned by Times Square Arts.
Alumnus Ernesto Rios showcased his first solo exhibition ‘Constellations of a Civilization’ in Mexico City.
Alumna Amelia Winger-Bearskin was selected as an artist fellow for the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation.
Alumni Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy known as CW+T, were listed on Technical.ly’s list of favorite makers in Brooklyn.
Alumnus Daniel Hirschmann alongside company Hirsch&Mann, was recognized for The Placemaking Special Commendation Award of the Lumen Prize with his work Within.
Shawn Van Every, IMA Director of Undergraduate Studies, wrote an article on the newly created program, “More Computer Science Isn’t the Answer.”
Alumnus Juan Jose Egusquiza was a fellow at the Viacom Music + VR Fellowship with Viacom NEXT and NYC Media Lab.
Alumnus Ryan Holsopple was the Starshow Designer and Video Programmer for Anne Dorsen’s ‘The Great Outdoors’ during the FIAF Crossing the Line Festival.
Alumna Melissa Felderman was profiled for her creative technology work on Hello Giggles.
Alumnus Peter DePietro won the International Award for Excellence for Volume 12 of the Technology Collection with his work “Tech in Europe: Cultural Reboot”.
Adjunct Professor Andrew Lazarow received eligibility for the Tony Awards nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play.
Faculty member Allison Parrish was featured in an article on Motherboard.
ITP Resident and alumnus David Lockard represented ITP/IMA at the Children’s STEM Activity Fair.
Adjunct Professor Jessica Banks was listed on Technical.ly’s list of favorite makers in Brooklyn.
Professor Daniel Robin was featured at Ars Electronica exhibition in Berlin.
Alumni Yining Shi and Karen Pen were interviewed on p5js.org.
Alumnus Kuan Huang was a premiered contestant on Apple’s new show “Planet of the Apps.”
Alumna Lili Cheng was named as one of 43 most powerful female engineers by Business Insider.
Alumnus Jason Kaufman (Jace Kay) launched new app ‘Stationhead’.
Alumnus Kerstin Gilg facilitated Maine public art project.
Alum Jamie Levy was profiled in New York Magazine in a piece titled “The Untold Story of Jamie Levy, Punk-Rock, Cyber-Publishing Pioneer”.
Afrotectopia, created and produced by Ari Melenciano, was profiled in znewsafrica.
Second year student Sean Kim has been invited to attend the Dalai Lama Fellows Global Assembly, where he will present his meditation-aid technologies.
Climoji, which was created by ITP student Viniyata Pany and professor Marina Zurkow, was featured in Science Line.
Faculty member Clay Shirky was on WNYC's "Big, If True" Program on March 23rd, discussing the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
ITP alum Sharang Biswas exhibited his game at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
ITP alum Susan Leopold exhibited her work "Intersections" at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
Mathura Govindarajan, Luis Morales-Navarro, Ari Melenciano have been selected for the 2018 Processing Foundation Fellowship.
ITP student Or Fleisher's project Volume was featured in Next Web.
Alum Lori Napoleon was profiled on tinymixtapes.com.
Roi Lev & Anastasis Germanidis presented GLIMPSE: Inventing America at Verizon Demo Day.
Alum Francesca Rodriguez Sawaya was profiled in Hasac for her piece titles, “Weaving, Coding, & Storytelling”.
ITP Alum Roopa Vasudevan's was profiled in NYU News for her work in the political sphere.
ITP students Oriana Neidecker and Lindsey Piscitell presented ‘Marshmallow Laser Feast’ at SXSW.
ITP’s Sean Seunghwan Kim exhibited work, ‘HoloWAVE: Psychic Experience’ at TOPIC Talks: Near Future.
ITP alums Gabe Barcia-Colombo, Louis Foo, David Lobser, Sarah Rothberg, and Scott Garner created an AR MOMA exhibit
ITP alumni David Lockard and Mathura Govindarajan, were featured in the Data Through Design exhibit in Brooklyn.
ITP students Or Fleisher and Dror Ayalon had their work Skeletron featured on The Next Web.
Chetan Hasabnis, Michael Kripchak, DImosthenis Markopoulos and Nitish Wakalkar were selected for the NYC Media Lab third year cohort program for their project, N-GEMS.
ITP adjunct professor Danah Boyd presented ‘What Hath we Wrought?’ at SXSW.
Verizon awarded Roi Lev and Anastasis Germanidis (Glimpse), and Luqian Chen and Jingfei Lin (Runway in Store) with funding for their media and technology projects.
ITP’s Ari Melenciano was profiled by Z News Africa for her work featured at Afrotectopia.
Despina Papadopoulos, adjunct professor and ITP alumna, was featured in Core77 for her company, Principled Design.
Gabe Barcia-Colombo, ITP professor, spoke at TEDX Talk featured on NPR.
Alumnus and adjunct professor Andrew Lazarow was appointed Projection Designer for new musical, Head Over Heels, produced by Gwyneth Paltrow and directed by Tisch alumnus, Michael Mayer.
Faculty member Marina Zurkow along with alumna Viniyata Pany were featured in The Washington Post for their work, Climoji.
Assistant professor Daniel Shiffman received Google’s Faculty Research Award.
Faculty member Daniel Rozin was featured on The Verge.
ITP alumnus David Gochfeld presented ‘Brave New World: The Future of Theatre & Tech’ at SXSW.
Alumna Allie Diracles presented ‘CS Professional Development Recipes’ at SXSW.
ITP alumna Melissa Felderman presented “Design x Tech: DIY Wearable Electronics”, at SXSW.
Alumni Kristina Budelis and Ken Amarit raised $2.1 million for their startup, KitSplit.
Michelle Hessel, ITP alumna, won awards at the 2018 Interactive Annual CommArts for her project “Hidden in Plain Sight”.
Adjunct faculty member Rui Pereira presented work at MIT’s AR in Action Conference.
Sharang Biswas, ITP alumnus, won an IndieCade award for his game “Feast” and was featured in a new exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alumnus Ed Purver created a permanent art installation in Chicago.
Rebecca Ricks, ITP Alumnus, created a tree diagram using Paypal’s EU data to illustrate shared information with third parties.
Richard Ting, ITP Alumnus, was featured in Design Observer’s ongoing series, Chain Letters.
Amy Khoshbin, ITP Alumna, displayed artwork series “I PLEDGE” in several public venues throughout NYC.
Alumnus Ken Haller developed “Klimbz", a data-platform for indoor climbing gyms.
ITP alumnus Rui Pereira spoke at the AR In Action conference hosted at the MIT Media Lab.
Richarg Ting, ITP alumnus, announced executive vice president and global chief design officer of R/GA.
Despina Papadopoulous, ITP alumna and adjunct faculty member, contributed an article titled ‘Trust as the New Empathy’ published in Quartz Magazine.
Winslow Porter, ITP alumnus, won a Lumiere Award for Best Location Based VR Short for his work, Tree
Juan Jose Egusquiza, ITP alum and Resident, was profiled in 6sqft for their Urban Lens feature, including his work “Impossible Landscapes” and upcoming projects.
Surya Mattu, ITP alumna, wrote a piece on privacy and security for Gizmodo.
Adjunct Professor Justin Hendrix presented ‘Content Creation in the Age of AI’ at SXSW.
Photography & Imaging
Professor Bayeté Ross-Smith presented a TED Residency talk, “Why America has always been great.”
Adjunct faculty Joseph Rodriguez opened new exhibition Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the 80s at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Adjunct faculty Mark Bussell curated an online gallery,150 Psalms, 150 Photographs, for Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.
Adjunct faculty Illiana Cepero was featured in The New York Times for her exhibition CubaIs at the Annenburg Space for Photography.
Professor Caitlin Berrigan contributed to Architecture is All Over magazine.
Professor Erika DeVries produced several exhibitions this fall.
Professor Lorie Novak moderated a panel on social justice during the DPI hosted discussion, ‘Future Image-makers Speak Out’ during the 2017 Photoville.
Chair Dr. Deborah Willis received the 2017 Vision Award from the Center for Photgraphy at Woodstock.
Chair Dr. Deborah Willis and Alumni Hank Willis Thomas were selected to speak at the TEDWomen 2017 conference in New Orleans.
Chair Dr. Deborah Willis presented a conversation with Aperture Magazine editor Brandon Wattenberg at the 2017 Photoville exhibition.
Faculty member Sean Fader was included in a new exhibition, Facial Profiling, at C24 gallery.
Adjunct Professor Jeffrey Henson Scales photographed the New York Times story ’Soho’s New Geeks’.
Professor Caitlin Kerrigan was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for her project Unfinished State.
Alumnus Sam Contis spoke at an artist talk at Aperture.
Alumna Rose DeSiano installed Island of Empirical Data and Other Fabrications as part of Randall Island Park Alliance's and Bronx Museum of the Arts' annual FLOW exhibition.
Chair Dr. Deborah Willis opened her exhibition ‘Went Looking for Beauty: Refashioning Self’ at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh PA.
Alumna Kearra Gopee was interviewed by the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian.
Maya Baroody, Lucy Beni, Phoebe Boatwright, Aaron Breetwor, Eugenia Efstathiou, Alex Fiszbein, Adam Kargenian, Aaron Kho, Michelle Kim, Justin Lanier, Claire Sunho Lee, Oscar Lewin, Yuka Lou, Andrew Nelson, David Tu Sun Song, Lea Winkler, and Tris Bucaro - participated in Photoville 2017. Additional alumni involved include Alan Chin, Rian Dundon, Jackie Neale and Sasha Arutyunova.
Alumni Sam Contis and Paul Mpagi Sepuya were included in Museum of Modern Art’s annual new photography exhibit, Being: New Photography 2018.
Alumna Nicole Finemana was published in the New York Time's Race/Related Newsletter.
Alumnus Hank WIllis Thomas opened his first solo exhibition, The Beautiful Game, at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London UK.
Hank Willis Thomas unveiled his sculptural installation, All Power to All People in Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza.
Alumna Jackie Neale exhibited a series depicting the people of Rio Grande Valley in Texas on Governor’s Island.
Alumna Alice Proujanksy was featured in a Stat News article for her photography work on midwives and maternity healthcare in Mexico.
Alumnus Elliot Jerome Brown was featured in Vice Magazine’s annual photo issue, interviewed by the acclaimed Carrie Mae Weems.
Alumnus Justin Scholar was Grand Prize the recipient of the Radii Photo Contest.
Alumna Sasha Arutyunova’s photography was featured within and on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Alumnus Perri Hofmann was featured in the NY Times.
Alumna Monique Jaques was published in the New York Times & Washington Post.
Alumni Eric Lawton and partner Dapne Takahashi curated an exhibition Discursive Selves at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City.
Alumni Perri Hoffman and Lili Holzer-Glier are participants in the 2017 Aperture Open Exhibition On Freedom.
Alumnus Ian Farrell was interviewed by online magazine Allegory Ridge.
Alumnus Hank Willis and artist group known as the Cause Collective, brought ‘The Truth Booth’ to Australia.
Alumnus Elliott Jerome Brown Jr co-curated a Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair titled “Rock Paper Scissors and a Three-Armed Shovel.” Participants also included Alumna Kearra Amaya Topee.
Alumna Shannon Cattleman founded an arts education center and gallery called ‘ Oakwood Arts + P35 Gallery’ in Richmond, Virginia.
Alumnus Hiroyuki Ito was featured in the NY Times.
Faculty member Kaila Brooks Nelson curated the Parsons Fine Arts 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Hybrid of Being at the Westbeth Gallery.
Hank Willis Thomas (BFA ‘98) was selected as a Guggenheim fellow.
Jack Maffucci is L’Officiel’s editorial photographer.
Dr. Deborah Willis was awarded a Hero Award by NYU Africa House.
Alum Aaron Schuman was selected as guest curator for the 2018 Jaipur Photography Festival in India.
Dr. Deborah Willis was featured in Vice Magazine’s Women Seeing Women column.
Chair Deb Willis was interviewed in the Spring 2018 issue of PDN EDU for the “Ask a Curator” feature.
Alumna Rose DeSiano was awarded the UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant.
Alums Sam Conits and Paul Mpagi are included in a new exhibit at the MOMA, Being: New Photography 2018
Joshua Olley was selected as an Achell Documentary Scholarship Finalist.
DPI chair Deb Willis was appointed to the Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Commission.
Deb Willis launched a new large-scale endeavor entitled In Pursuit of Beauty: Imaging Clos ets.
Student Jack Maffucci was featured in a fashion editorial campaign published in Vogue Italia.
Alumna Alice Proujansky contributed an essay to Her America project.
Alumnus Sam Contis was named a recipient of the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant for Visual Artists.
Isolde Brielmaier, DPI Professor, was interviewed on WNYC’s The Takeaway to provide reflection on the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Alum Chang W. Lee was profiled on the NY Times ‘Lens blog’ highlighting his work photographing the PyeongChang Olympics.
Alumnus Hank Willis Thomas appeared on “The Laura Flanders Show” on CUNYTV.
Alumna Jen Kinney was featured on NPR’s Here and Now.
Alumna Austin Irving will be showing her work, Cornbread, in a solo exhibition at Los Angeles's Wilding Cran Gallery.
Alumnus Hank Willis Thomas (‘98) designed the 50th Anniversary cover of New York Magazine.
Rachel Morrison, DPI alumna, became the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards for Mudbound.
DPI alumna Kristina Wilson launched ‘Content Cubed’, a new social media consulting firm.
Alumnus Sam Contis was featured in Photography Mag.
Alumnus David Gilbert was featured in BOMB Magazine.
NYU Game Center
Professor Bennett Foddy won the 2018 IGF Nuovo Award.
Karina Popp (’15 MFA, Game Design) was nominated for the Nuono Award.
Incubator (’16) was honorably mentioned for the Nuovo Award for The Norwood Suite, Cosmo D.
Stephen Lawrence Clark (’14 MFA, Game Design) was honorably mentioned for the Nuovo Award for his work, Witchball.
Seth S. Scott (’17 MFA, Game Design) was honorably mentioned for Best Student Game for his work, Membrane.
Verizon awarded NYU Game Center students Corey Bertelsen, Maria Mishurenko (JamMR) funding for their media and technology project.
Corey Bertelsen and Maria Mishurenko presented Impromptu at Verizon Demo Day.