The Tisch Community had an exciting and successful year! Check out the many achievements of our students, alumni, faculty and staff.
Institute of Performing Arts
Art & Public Policy
Grace Aneiza Ali received the 2018 New York University’s Provost's Fellowship
Performance artist and professor Karen Finley released her newest book, Grabbing Pussy
Dr. Ella Shohat was celebrated in a series of events by the Middle East Centre at Oxford University
Professor Dr. Laura Harrisreleased a new book, Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
Alum Ikram Lakhddhar opened an exhibition, Trespassing Liquid Highways, at Gallery 102 in Washington D.C.
Professor Hentyle Yapp participated in Franklin Furnace: Performance & Politics, presented by Franklin Furnace Archive and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU
Professor Pato Hebert was a featured artist in Boise State University's exhibition, In The Mix
Alumna Victoria Lynford joined the Chicago Architecture Biennial writing education and programming grants
Dance
Tisch Dance was ranked as the second best school for aspiring choreographers by College Magazine
Associate Arts Professor Pamela Pietro performed in Danspace
NYU Tisch Dance was ranked as the #1 College Dance Program in 2018-2019 by OnStage Blog
Dance student Aliza Russell won the Princess Grace Award, and was featured in Washington Square News
Rashaun Mitchell, Assistant Arts Professor and Associate Chairperson, collaborated with Silas Riener to create a new work entitled SWITCH, as part of NY Quadrille
Professor Betsy Coker received the 2019-2020 fellowship from The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU
Student Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes choreographed fellow classmate, Taina Lyons, for a new film titled, Considerable Evidence
Chair Sean Curran performedHands and Feet Solo in STOMP's 25th Anniversary Show at NYC’s Orpheum Theater
Alumna Jordan Ryder received a grant from Eric Tyler Dance
Mariana Valencia's work was presented at Danspace Project, Roulette, the Center for Performance Research, The New Museum, The Women and Performance Journal, Ugly Duckling Presse and AUNTS, and internationally in both Serbia and Macedonia
Dance BFA students Savannah Gaillard, Sarina Alexia Gonzalez, Amanda Rose Labuda, Rachel Lee, Taina Lyons, Lexi Martinez, Moeka Minami, Ida Obediente, Isabella Pete, Taylor Stansfield, Orina Siphanoum, Clairisa Patton, Jordan Wynn, Makenna Isabel Wolff, and Riana Pellicane-Hart performed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Visiting Dance professor, Patricia Beaman, received a resident fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU
MFA alumnus Kyle Abraham, of Abraham.in.Motion,received the 2018 Princess Grace Statue Award
Woolrich casted Dance student, Oriana Siphanoum, and Associate Chair Rashaun Mitchell, for their SS19 campaign
Dance Magazinenamed two Tisch Dance alumni as "25 to Watch for 2019”: Stephanie Troyak and Paul Morland
Associate Arts Professor Pamela Pietro was featured in the article "How I Get It Done: Pamela Pietro" in the December 2018 print issue of Dance Teacher Magazine
Susan Hamburger accepted a role as Supervisor of Dance Production & Adjunct Teacher
Imani Moss received the 2019 President's Service Award
Drama
Alum Moises Kaufman’s play, The Laramie Project, was ranked the 17th “Best American Play in the Last 25 Years" by The New York Times
Critics raved about the feel-good movie of the summer, Hearts Beat Loud, produced by alum David Bernon
Renowned actor, writer, producer, and alum, J. Kyle Manzay, was chosen as resident artist
Alumna Jaclyn Backhaus won this year's Horton Foote Prize for her play, India Pale Ale
Mia Katigbak, co-founder and Artistic Producing Director of the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), was curator of the annual Festival of Voices
Professor Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew was honored with the Henry Hewes Design Award for her lighting designs in the musical KPOP
Denis Jones was nominated for a Tony Award for her choreography in Tootsie
Alum Brandon Uranowitz was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in, Burn This
Alumna Ali Stroker was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Oklahoma!
For a special "Back to School" feature, recent Tony Award winner and Tisch alum, Ari’el Stachel, met with Frank DiLella from NY1’s On Stage to discuss his alma mater
Student Karishma Bhagani traveled to Uganda to direct in the Uganda National Theatre
Chair Ruben Polendo’s theatre company, Theatre Mitu, was highlighted in the New York Times
Alum Taylor Daniels was selected to play the part of George Eacker in the Broadway production, Hamilton
Alumna Rachel Brosnahan was recognized in Forbes: “30 under 30”, in the “Celebrities” category
Alumni Corey Camperchioli, Rachel Brosnahan, and Michael Ratner were all recognized in Forbes: “30 under 30”, in the field of “Hollywood & Entertainment”
Torch Song, produced by Richie Jackson ‘87 (BFA, Drama) and Carole Rothman ‘72 (MFA, Directing), was nominated for a Tony Award
What the Constitution Means to Me, produced by alumna Rachel Sussman, was nominated for a Tony Award
Alex Brightman was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Beetlejuice
Alumna Lady Gaga won an Oscar for her song “Shallow” in A Star is Born
Alumna Ryann Redmond was selected as the first woman to play Olaf in a production of Frozen
Faculty members earned 13 Helen Hayes Award nominations for The Wiz
Woolrich casted students Fernando Casablancas, Yiling Luo, Olivia Massiah, and Sejahari Saulter-Villegas for their SS19 campaign
Alumna Lady Gaga received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in A Star Is Born
Alumna Rachel Brosnahan received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical for her work in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Alumna Kristen Bell received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical for her work in The Good Place
Professor Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew was featured in an issue of American Theatre under “People to Watch”
Graduate Acting
Associate Chair Laurence Maslon released his new book, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America
Alumna Dina Shihabi was profiled in Elle Magazine, as well as in an AOL Build video interview
Corey Stoll (’03) spoke with The Daily Beast about his roles on The Romanoffs and First Man
Alumna Carvens Lissaint joined the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning musical, Hamilton, as George Washington
Jeff Wise (’09) directed Happy Birthday, WandaJune, featuring alumni Matt Harrington (’09), Kareem Lucas (’13), and Kate MacCluggage (’07) in a Wheelhouse Theater Company production
Alum Mahershala Ali won a Bafta Award for Best Supporting Actor in Green Book
Mahershala Ali received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor In A Supporting Role In Any Motion Picture for his performance in Green Book
Alumna Debra Messing received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series, Comedy or Musical for her performance in Will & Grace
Alumna Abigail Rose Solomon, who produced The Prom, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical
Amber Gray received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Hadestown
Grad Acting Assistant Arts Professor, Scott Illingworth, received a 2019 Fulbright Grant to travel and work in Kiev, Ukraine
Nominations for the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards: Matt Harrington (‘09), David Kenner (‘09), Michael Schantz (‘10), and Jeff Wise (‘09), Kareem Lucas ('13), Kate MacCluggage ('07), Mayaa Boateng ('17), Cherise Boothe ('02), Ian Lassiter ('10) Nikiya Mathis ('08), Marchánt Davis ('16), Clifton Duncan (‘09), Crystal Lucas-Perry ('13), Danielle Skraastad ('99), and Grad Acting faculty member Steve Skybell
Alum Marchant Davis stared in The Day Shall Come, which premiered at SXSW
Alumnas Danielle Skraastad and Mia Barron star in Hurricane Diane, a New York Times “Critic's Pick”
Alumna Amber Gray arrived on Broadway in Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown as Persephone
Alum Sterling K. Brown won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance in Black Panther
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
GMTW collaborated with Brooklyn Museum to present 11 mini-operas
Alum Timothy Huang, who wrote KOI STORY, and Helen Park, who composed the music for BAKED GOODS, were featured in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Ars Nova presented TnT: Igniting the Future, which showcased songs by Tisch alumni, Ty Defoe and Tidtaya Sinutoke
Alum Mark Allen’s score for the new Broadway musical, GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER, will be recorded for the original Broadway cast album, produced by Sh-K-Boom Records
How To Break, by GMTW alumni Aaron Jafferies and Rebecca Hart was selected for The New Victory Theatre Labworks
Joe Iconis was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score for Be More Chill
Alums Julia Gytri and Avi A. Amon received the 2019 Jonathan Larson Grant Award
Alumna Paul Castles composed the music for a new play by Hansol Jung entitled WILD GOOSE DREAMS (Among the Dead)
Ryan Scott Oliver presented new songs from his pop-rock musical, Three Points of Contact, at NYC's Feinstein's/54 Below
RED EMMA & THE MAD MONK was presented at The Tank in NYC as part of Ladyfest, after it sold-out at Ars Nova's ANT Fest.
Alumni Gordon Leary & Julia Meinwald held the world premiere of their new musical, THE LONELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego
SMALL TOWN STORY: A Musical About a Musical That Rocked a Community, co-written by alumna Brandon James Gwinn was presented in a concert at Feinstein's/54 Below
HANSEL AND GRETL AND HEIDI AND GUNTER and THE HOMEFRONT, which were both written by alumni, were featured in the 18th annual Festival of New Musicals at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington
BE MORE CHILL, a new musical by alumna Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz, transferred from the Off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center, to the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway
Alum Michael R. Jackson was one of the winners of this year's Whiting Awards
Alumni Molly Reisman and Emily Chiu were recipients of the Inaugural Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists
Alumna Mark Allen opened his new musical GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre
THE RIVER IS ME, by alumna Sukari Jones, and GUN AND POWDER, by alumni Ross Baum & Angelica Chéri, were selected for the 2018 NAMT Conference
Alumni Daniel F. Levin & Jonathan Portera received a staged reading of their musical, TO PAINT THE EARTH, and it was selected for Aria Entertainment’s Festival of New Music Theatre: From Page to Stage
Alumnas Molly Reisman and Emily Chiu were recipients of the Inaugural Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists
Performance Studies
Interim Poetry and Poetics recently published an issue on “The Body”, featuring work of the following Performance Studies students and alumni: Manion Kuhn (BA' 19), Diego Christian Saldana (MA' 17), Jeongyun Lee (MA '17), and Zhen Cheng (MA '17). This issue was also edited by PS alum Autumn Widdoes (MA ’07)
MA Candidate Ivan Espinosa's most recent essay "Landscapes and the Living" was published in NYU's Center for Experimental Humanities journal, Caustic Frolic
Associate Professor Barbara Browning is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award in the “Bisexual Fiction” category for her novel, The Gift
B.A. Candidate Akeem Muhammad presented research from his capstone project at "The Convening of the Commons" during the "Queens International 2018: Volumes" event at the Queens Museum
B.A. candidate Lisa Mordkovich served as the assistant producer in Tisch New Theatre’s, Next To Normal
Alumna Ann Cooper Albright was named as a Guggenheim Fellow
Mark Lockwood (M.A. '17) was selected as a recipient of the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology at the Kinsey Institute
B.A. Candidate Melissa McDonald performed as part of the Tisch Showcase at Bowery Electric
Visiting scholar, Rodrigo Fischer’s latest show, The Other Shadow, premiered at Dixon Place
Alumna Joshua Chambers-Letson's latest book, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life is now available
Alumna Erin B. Mee (MA '97 and PhD '04) will be remounting, Café Play, her site-specific play at the historic Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village
Alumna Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón's latest book, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora is now available
Ph.D. Candidate Kristen Holfeuer presented I'll Find You, a new work co-created with Matthew Keyes, at Korean International Duo Performance Arts Festival in Seoul, South Korea
Woolrich casted Performance Studies student Theo Goude for their SS19 campaign
Associate professor Malik Gainesreceived the Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Grant for Arts Writing for his book, Future Ruins: The Art of Abstractive Democracy
Performance Studies alumna Johanna Burton has been appointed as the new director of the Wexner Center for the Arts
Ph.D. Candidate Aliza Shvarts sat down with The Cut to discuss her latest installation “Anthem"
The Citizens Journal is a civic engagement magazine that was founded by Performance Studies B.A. candidate Akeem Muhammad and published by the student-run organization, Citizens Press Institute
Shane Vogel (PHD ’04) launched a new book, Stolen Time: Black Fade Performance and the Calypso Craze
B.A. candidate Akeem Muhammad presented research from his capstone project at the “Action: Arrest" conference at King’s College London
Kay Turner performed in Otherwise: Queer Scholarship into Song
Alumna Jeongyn Lee performed in Lost and Found Underground at the Downtown Community Television Center
Alum Ethan Philbrick began a new position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre History at Muhlenberg College
Bya Braga, Performance Studies visiting scholar, performed in It Takes Two to Tangle at Dixon Place
Ph.D. Candidate James McMaster has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Deborah Kapchan's latest book, Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry, is now available
Alumna Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón joined Cathy Hannabach on the Imagine Otherwise podcast to discuss how women graffiti artists perform feminism on the global stage.
Open Arts
St. Joseph, which stars faculty member Angela Pietropinto, was screened as part of the Cutting Room FIlm Festival
Adjunct professor Lizzie Olesker’s new documentary, The Washing Society, had a special two-night event at Anthology Film Archives
Adjunct professor Anthony Weintraub’s new film, Bel Canto, was screened at Cinema Village, and is also available to stream online through iTunes and Amazon
Adjunct Instructor Nathalie Handal’s poem, "Lady Liberty”, is on display in the Poetry In Motion At 25 exhibit at Grand Central
Faculty member Pat Hoffbauer performed in Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done at the MOMA, which was reviewed by New York Times
Faculty member Danielle Russo opened her new show, Sentinel, at the Brooklyn Historical Society on September 14th
Distinguished teacher Rob Benevides accepted a new role in Undergraduate Film & Television as Area Head of Special FX Makeup
Adjunct instructor Sheldon Woodbury recently published some short stories: Ancient Ones II, Indiana Horror Review 2018, and Surreal Nightmares II
Design for Stage & Film
Clint Ramos (’97) was nominated for a Tony award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Once on this Island
Greg Barnes (’83) and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for his work in Mean Girls
David Zinn (’91) won a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for his work in SpongeBob SquarePants
Alumna Christine Jones won a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for designing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Alum Bradley King was nominated for a Tony Award for his design work in Hadestown
Alum Paul Tazewell was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design in Ain’t Too Proud
Aluman Laura Jellinek was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in Oklahoma!
A Quiet Place, produced by alum Jeffrey Beecroft, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Cinema Studies
The Library of Congress announced that the Pratt Institute, in collaboration with MIAP, will oversee the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program
MIAP received a grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for $314,100 in support of the Regional Media Legacies project
Elena Gorfinkle ’07 was awarded a 2018 Arts Writer Grant by the Andy Warhol Foundation to support her book Aesthetic Strike: Cinemas of Exhaustion
Associate Professor Ed Guerrero sat down with Dr. Angela Davis to discuss her talk, “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” for the Skirball Talks series
Assistant professor Laura Harris’ released her book Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
Erica Titkemeyer (’13), Project Director and AV Conservator of the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina, was awarded a $1.75 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to continue AV preservation
Alum Noa Steimatsky was named as a Guggenheim Fellow
Green Book, executive produced by alum Steven Farneth, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion picture, Musical or Comedy
Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
Professor Gordon Farrell debuted his plays The Life Span of a Fact at Studio 54
Graduate student Michael Allen Harris' play, Kingdom, is now published through Stage Rights, and won the Lorraine Hansberry (Best Writing of a Play) Award at the 2018 Black Theatre Alliance Awards
Charlie Gershman’s play, Free & Proud went from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe to London's King's Head Theatre, and was also published by Oberon Books
Professor Lucas Hnath discussed art and style in Esquire magazine
Stacey Rose and Cerstin Johnson were named the Sundance Institute 2018 Theatre Lab Fellows
Alumna Kris Diaz’s play, The Elabroate Entrance of Chad Deity, was ranked as the 25th “Best American Play in the Last 25 Years" by the New York Times
Alumna Anne Washburn’s play, Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play,was ranked #4 by the New York Times
Alum George C. Wolfe was nominated for a Tony Award for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
The Waverly Gallery, which was produced by Kenneth Lonergan and Scott Rudin, was nominated for a Tony Award
Adjunct Faculty and Alumna Jeffrey Stanley received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship to travel to Kolkata, India
Alumna Itamar Moses, won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for, The Band's Visit
Faculty member Ian Ellis James who directed, La MaMa, has received a 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award
Faculty member Suzan-Lori Parks’ play, Topdog/Underdog, was named by The New York Times as the “#1 play written in the twenty-five years since Angels in America”
Alumna Annie Baker’s play, The Flick, was ranked #3 by the New York Times
Alumna Kenneth Lonergan’s play, This Is Our Youth, was ranked as the 12th “Best American Play in the Last 25 Years" by the New York Times
Alumna Rajiv Joseph won the 2018 Best New American Play Obie for Describe the Night
Torch Song, produced by alumni Richie Jackson and Carole Rothman, was nominated for a Tony Award
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, produced by alum Adam Rodneralong and Dean’s Council members, Barry Diller and Scott Rudin, was nominated for a Tony Award
Alum Donald Glover received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy for his work in Atlanta
Adam Zell who produced, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, was nominated for a Tony Award
Faculty member Ed Solomon’s third installment of the Bill & Ted movies will be released in 2020
Alumna Teresa Lee’s short film, I Think She Likes You, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
Donald Glover won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album for This is America
Alum Kevin Willmont won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for Blakkklansman
Alumna Fredrica Bailey’s Netflix feature, See You Yesterday, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
Alumna Samantha Godfrey’s work was chosen to be featured at the third annual 50in50: Letters to Our Daughters
Alum Charles Gershman debuted his new play, Ivankaplay, at the Kraine Theatre
Alum Adam Lujan won the David & Lynn Angell Comedy Fellowship
Associate Arts Professor Kristoffer Diaz has adapted Jonathan Larson's classic musical RENT!
Alumna Sanaz Toosi was selected as the 2019 PAGE 73 playwriting fellow
Dramatic Writing alumnas, Samantha Godfrey and Shamar White, were featured playwrights in the Fire ThisTime Festival
Graduate Film
Won't You Be My Neighbor?, produced by student Nicholas Ma, was nominated for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards, received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Documentary, and is now the top-grossing biodoc
Student Elegance Bratton sat down with The New York Times to discuss his current ballroom documentary series, My House, on Viceland
Professor Tatjana Krstevski was the Director of Photography for, The Load (Teret), which screened at Cannes' Director’s Fortnight. She was then interviewed by ARRI NEWS to discuss her film
Alumni Stacey Rose and Cerstin Johnson were named the Sundance Institute 2018 Theatre Fellows
Faculty member and David Payne Carter Teaching Award Recipient, Gail Segal, has been selected for the 2018 IRIS/NYWIFT Writer's Lab
Alumna Debra Granik's film, Leave No Trace, was nominated for Best Feature, Best Director and Best Female Supporting at the Independent Spirit Awards
Alumna Tamara Jenkins's feature, Private Life, was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards
Renaldo Marcus Green's Monsters And Men, and László Nemes' Sunset, were part of the Special Presentations at the Toronto Film Festival
Imogen Thomas’, Emu Runner, Ash Mayfair's The Third Wife, and Sameh Zoabi’s, Tel Aviv on Fire, screened at the Toronto Film Festival
Sara Colangelo's film, The Kindergarten Teacher, was part of the Gala Presentations at the Toronto Film Festival
Student Art Parnitudom’s film, Time to Go, premiered at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA
Students Laurel Parmet, Sontenish Myers and Nick Colia each took home awards at the Palm Springs International ShortFest
Alumnae Lisa Robinson, Christine Swanson, and Heather Jack have been selected to be a part of the inaugural class of NBC’s, Female Forward, Director's Initiative
Alumnas Mary Evangelista and Sara Shaw were amongst the winners at this year's Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival
Alum Kevin Wilson, Jr. was awarded the BAFTA Student Film Award for Live Action, for his Academy Award-nominated short, My Nephew Emmett
Alumna Abigail Prade’s thesis film, Future Perfect, was included in the The 71st Locarno Film Festival
Alumna Shevaun Mizrahi's new documentary and first feature film, Distant Constellation, premiered at the Metrograph in NYC
Nettles, a film directed by student Raven Jackson, was selected for the San Sebastian International Film Festival Nest program
Alumni in the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Lineup: Josh Hetzler, Julius Onah, Kimberly Parker, Kirill Mikhanovsky, Laura Valladao, Jomo Fray, Nisha Ganatra, Matthew Clark, A.V. Rockwell, Marttise Hill, Julius Pryor, Mary Evangelista, Ines Gowland, Nikyatu Jusu, and Darius Clark Monro Olivier Theurillat, aed Alsemari, Alan Wu, Elegance Bratton, and Alex Wallace
Professor, Tony Jannelli was Director of Photography on, Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murry
Alumna Saba Riazi was featured in Filmmakers of Tomorrow at the Telluride Film Festival, with two films, a short entitled, The Wind Is Blowing On My Street, and a feature film, Ice Cream
My Nephew Emmett, by alumnus Kevin Wilson Jr, played in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow: Student Prints section at the Telluride Film Festival
Student Jisun Jamie Kim's film, A Year, was screened in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow: Student Prints section at the Telluride Film Festival
Alumna Omar Zúñiga produced the film Too Late to Die Young, which was selected for the Main Slate at the New York Film Festival
Student Raven Jackson won the New Orleans Film Festival pitch contest, South Pitch. Her project, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, won the Narrative Open-Call section of the contest
Alum Mamadou Dia was the recipient of the Hubert Bals Fund, which is part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam
Student Alfonso Herrera Salcedo was awarded the prestigious Kodak Vision Award
Alumnus Cary Fukunaga was profiled by the New York Times Magazine about his new show Maniac
Alumna Laura Moss has been selected to direct, After Birth, a film from Fangoria that is a loose adaptation of the classic Frankenstein story
Alumni Tamara Jenkins and Debra Granik received a Bonnie Award
Alumna Elif Eda Tartar's short film, Void, was selected for the 2018 Tirana International Film Fesitval (TIFF)
Alumnae Jomo Fray and Charlotte Wells were chosen to be on 25 New Faces in Independent Film 2018 by Filmmaker Magazine
Alumna Reinaldo Marcus Green's film, Monsters and Men, screened in theaters nationwide
Alumna Brittany "B. Monet" Fennell was one of six selected from the Ghetto Film School to be a part of a development program with Women in Film, LA
Alumna Marian Mathias was selected for the 2018 Cinéfondation Cannes Residency
Professor Kasi Lemmons is set to direct Harriet, a biopic about Harriet Tubman from Focus Features
Professor Spike Lee's film, BlacKkKlansman, received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Actor for Adam Driver’s performance
Alumna Debra Granik's film, Leave No Trace, received two Gotham Award Acting nominations: Best Actor and Breakthrough Actor
Student Raven Jackson won one of the Fall 2018 SFFILM Rainin Grants
Thesis student Jacqueline Christy cast Miriam Shor as the lead in her thesis film, Magic Hour
Alumna Cary Fukunaga was tapped to direct the latest James Bond film
Alumna A.B. Shawky’s thesis film, Yomeddine, was selected as the official Egyptian entry for foreign language film at the Academy Awards
Two Sisters, by David Moragas, The Starling Girl, by Laurel Parmet, and Dry Summer, by Lakshmi Simhan were selected as Purple List winners
Kristian King was the recipient of this year’s Media Services Producing Award
Netflix has released the trailer for See You Yesterday, which is Grad Film alum Stefon Bristol’s debut feature
The Montclair Film Festival lineup included many Grad Film students and alumni
Alum Taj Musco won the Gold Prize for Drama at the 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Alumna Jess de la Merced was selected to participate in Paul Feig's new program that supports up and coming female directors
Students Haley Anderson and Elegance Bratton had films honored with grants at the 16th annual Tribeca All Access program
Alumna Chloé Zhao is set to direct the new Marvel film, The Eternals
Grad Film alumni Atsukpo Hirayanagi, Shawn Snyder, Kristen Tan, Shirlyn Wong, and Jason Begue were selected as Sundance FilmTwo Fellows
The Tribeca Film Festival lineup featured work from numerous alumni, students and professors
Alumna Francesca Mirabella and thesis student Stephanie Bollag are among the winners of the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Professor Amy Fox and alum Abbesi Akhamie recently served as jury members for the City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment inaugural Women's Film, TV and Theatre Fund
Thesis students Haley Anderson and Laurel Parmet were selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Fellowship
Professor Spike Lee won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Blackkklansman
Film Independent announced its list of 2019 Project Involve Fellows, which includes Tisch alumni Lorena Durán, Mary Evangelista, and Enrique Unzueta
Student Grant Hyun's film Koreatown was a finalist for the 2018 Coppola Short Film Competition
BET Network/Blackhouse Fellowship Program awarded the following students with fellowships: Sontenish Myers, Kristian King, Rashad Deshawn Frett, and Aisha Ford
Student Rashad Frett won a prestigious Director's Guild of America (DGA) Student Film Award
Alumna Tamara Jenkins received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Screenplay for her script, Private Life
Haley Anderson has been named the recipient of the Sandra Ifraimova Production Fund
Lin Que Ayoung, Molly Gillis, Ninna Palmadottir, and Kevin Wang have been named the recipients of the Spike Lee Film Production Fund
The Slamdance Film Festival announcedNettles, directed by Grad Film thesis student Raven Jackson, and Dominant Species, directed by alum Joseph Sackett as part of their 2019 lineup
The Library of Congress has announced that Eve's Bayou, directed by professor Kasi Lemmons, and Brokeback Mountain, a film by alum Ang Lee, have been added to the National Film Registry
Third year student Alexander Etseyatse won a grant from The Caucus for Producers, Writers, and Directors for his film Otis
Alum Nicholas Ma’s film Won’t You Be My Neighbor?won the Audience Award at the 2018 Gotham Independent Film Awards
The Rider, by Alumna Chloé Zhao, won Best Film of 2018 by the National Society of Film Critics, Best Feature at the 2018 Gotham Independent Film Awards, Next Generation Award at the LA Film Critics Association Awards, and was nominated for British Independent Film Award
Alumna Rezwan Shahriar Sumit's feature project, The Salt in Our Waters // Nonajoler Kabbo, recently won the Centre National du Cinéma (CNC)’s Aide aux cinémas du monde
Graduate Film alumni Ines Gowland, Tony Koros, and Jian Luo had short films selected to compete in the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Alumna Jean Pesce is the recipient of the 2018 Richard Vague Production Fund. Pesce won the annual $100,000 prize for her feature, Cuttlefish
Alumna Debra Granik was awarded Best Director for her film, Leave No Trace, at the LA Film Critics Association Awards
Professor Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
Tukei Muhumuza’s, Facing North (Bukiikakkono), and A.V. Rockwell’s, Feathers, were a part of the International Short Cuts at the Toronto Film Festival
Ian Harnarine's film, Caroni, was included in the Short Cuts at the Toronto Film Festival
Student Stephanie Bollag won the grand jury prize at this year's Shore Scripts Screenplay Competition
Undergraduate Film & Television
Adjunct professor Jeff Scher won an Emmy for his animation work in The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
Professor Rick Litvin (producer) and Instrutor Jeff Scher (animator) had their video, The President Sang Amazing Grace, mentioned in the NY Times Daily Briefing
Alumna Tyler Mitchell, was the first black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history
Faculty member Chitra Neogy’s recently published novel, Blood Words A Warrior’s Walk, is now an audiobook
Faculty Marco William's doc, Crafting an Echo, had it's World Premiere on Nov. 14th at DOC NYC
John M. Davis (’87) was nominated for an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding Sound Editing For a Limited Series, Movie or Special for his work in Fahrenheit 451
Eric Becker (’04) and Shaun Harkins (’81) were nominated for Emmy awards for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For a Limited Series, Movie or Special for their work on Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, The Oscars, and the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
James Anderson was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing For a Variety Series for his work on Saturday Night Live
Tyler Mitchell ’17 (BFA, Film & Television) was recognized in Forbes: “30 Under 30” in the field of Art & Style
Ben Kutchins ’00 was nominated for two Emmy awards for Outstanding Cinemtography For A Single-Camera Series for Ozark and The Toll
Recent grad, Yusuf Kapadia, was named a Sundance Fellow
Rick McGuinness (’82) was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Lighting Design/Direction For a Variety Series for Saturday Night Live
Howard Lee (’88) and Anna Pousho (’95) were nominated an Emmy for Outstanding Structured Reality Program, for their work on Who Do You Think You Are?
Sam Email ‘98 was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within a Scripted Program for his work on Mr. Robot
Brian A. Kates (’94) was nominated for two Emmys for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For a Comedy Series for his work in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Pilot
Stephanie Gibbons ‘89 was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series for The Americans: The Final Season
Diamantino, co-directed by alums Daniel Schmidt & Gabriel Abrantes, won the annual Critics Week sidebar at Cannes
E. Max Frye (’85) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for executive producing The Alienist
Tiffany Chung (’08) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for co-producing Westworld
Shukree Tilghman (’01) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for co-producing This Is Us
Reed Morano (’01) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series for executive producing The Handmaid’s Tale
Greg Spence (’88) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series for producing Game Of Thrones
Delaney Matthews won the Filmmaking Award at the 2018 Sight and Sound Viewers Choice Awards for Alone
Alumna Bridget Bedard won the Episodic Premiere at SXSW for Ramy
Alum Dan Sterling won an Audience Award at SXSW for the film Long Shot
Chris Voss ‘09 was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for co-executive producing SNL
Eliana Ritts won the Documentary Award at the 2018 Sight and Sound Viewers Choice Awards for Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
UGFTV freshman, Philip Youmans, was the youngest filmmaker to have a film premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Alum Nia DaCosta was interviewed by IndieWire about her recent success
UGFTV professor Sam Pollard received the Distinguished Teaching Award
Top Shorts Film Festival named UGFTV students, Peri Segel, Laura Torres, Jo Sanford, Noah Friend and Elizabeth Rezende with a Best Web Series Award for their TV Bootcamp, Sting Attached
Alexandra Johnes won an NAACP Image Award for Amazing Documentary for Amazing Grace
Alumna Cassandra Evanisko won a Virtual Cinema Award at SXSW for Send Me Home
Alumni Jen Statsky, Dylan Morgan, and Doug Smith who Co-Produced The Good Place, were nominated for a Golden Globe for Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical
Alumna Elizabeth Sarnoff, Consulting Producer for Barry, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical
Animation professor Sherry Camhy was featured in two art periodicals: Linea- the Artist’s Voice and Artist’s Magazine
Professor Lewis Erskin’s Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool/ U.S.A premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
Alum Kahlil Maskati won the Episodic Plot Competition at SXSW for Revenge Tour
Step Up High Water, S2, E2, "Splits", directed by UGFTV Professor Mary Lambert premiered on YouTube
Alumna Chelsea Odufu won a position as the chief digital nomad of Fiverr, and made it into Forbes
Alumna Chloé Aktas was one of ten filmmakers chosen by Warner Brother’s Music Group & Eko to create and direct an interactive pilot
Justin Wilkes ‘92 was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for his work on The Fourth Estate
Magnus Sundberg won the Studio Award at the 2018 Sight and Sound Viewers Choice Awards for Puppet Barber & Friend
Cooper Peery and Tyler Sánchez were two of top five finalists in the 2019 Coca-Cola Regal Films Competition
Alumni Ryan Fleek and Anna Boden directedCaptain Marvel
Student Nikki Knight won the Richard Protovin Animation Award
Professor John Canemaker’s animation, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, ranked #13 on the Oscar’s List
Alums Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty were nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Alum Joel Coen was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Woolrich casted the following students for their SS19 campaign: Agasha Irving, Joshuah Melnick, and Julia Yelvington
Alumna Debra Granik won a Bonnie Award at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards
Alumna Nicole Holofcener won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for Can You Forgive Me?
Justin Wilkes (’96) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special for his work on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman
Christopher Collins (’92) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series or Special for his work on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
The UGFTV Advanced TV Production, SALAZAR, was the winner in the Topshorts Film Festival
Mikey Buckholtz (’12) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for producing The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
David Minkowski (’99) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series for co-producing Genius: Picasso
Johnathan Krise (’00) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for executive producing Portlandia
Brian Siedlecki (’96) was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Talk Series for co-producing Saturday Night Live
Alumna Jessica Brillhart won a Virtual Cinema Award at SXSW for Traverse
Alum Guy Guido's feature docudrama, Madonna and the Breakfast Club, was released worldwide by Sony/The Orchard Films
A Star Is Born, produced by alum Todd Phillips, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Drama
Sharp Objects, produced by alum Charles Layton,received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture
Escape at Dannemora, executive produced by alumni Michael De Luca and Bryan Zuriffwere, was nominated for a Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Golden Globe
The Alienist, executive produced by alumni E. Max Frye, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Steve Golin, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture
Homecoming, executive produced by alumni Sam Esmail, Micah Bloomberg, and Alex Blumberg, was nominated for a Golden Globe in the area of Best TV Series, Drama
Isle of Dogs, produced by Scott Rudin and Molly Cooper, was nominated for a Golden Globe in the area of Best Original Score
Alumni Warren Bell and David Javerbaum Co-Produced, The Kominski Method, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical
Institute of Emerging Media
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Alum Mack Keane performed his rendition of Cranes In The Sky, by Solange on MTV 'Cover Sessions'
Alumna Ada performed her rendition of New Rules, by Dua Lipa on MTV 'Cover Sessions'
Clive Davis made it onto Billboard’s "2018 Top Music Business Schools” list
Alumna Fletcher performed live on the Today Show after making her television debut on on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Woolrich casted student Paolo Grilli Cicilioni and adjunct professor Seva Granik for their SS19 campaign
Clive Davis student Blu DeTiger debuted her music video for, In My Head
Cardi B’s song, Everything is Love, written by REMU student Nija Charles, won a Grammy Award
Beck’s album, Colors, produced by Clive Davis Alum Cole M.G.N, won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album
Cardi B’s album, Invasion of Privacy, co-produced and co-written by REMU alum, Andrew Watt, won a Grammy for Best Rap Album
Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats’s album, All the Sounds, mastered by Adjunct Professor Alan Silverman, won a Grammy for Best Children’s Album
Kenta Yonesaka (Clive Davis ‘10) won a Grammy award for Best Traditional Blues Album for The Blue is Alive and Well
ITP
Alumni Sebastián Morales and Tiri Kananuruk were interviewed in Medium by ITP alum and Adjunct Faculty Member Taeyooon Choi
Student Ari Melenciano received the NYU Nia Award
Alumna Camille Utterback's project, Precarious which is featured in the National Portrait Gallery has been profiled in an article by The Washington Post
Alum Paul Berry was interviewed by CNN Tech on embracing gender fluidity
Alumna Diana Freed’s collaborative research appeared on Vox and is presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Diana Freed (ITP '15) received a special recognition for Diversity and Inclusion at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing(CSCW)
Alumni Zach Lieberman and MolMol Kuo were profiled by National Geographic for their smartphone AR work
Professor Danny Rozin had his wooden mirror exhibited at “Innovation as Artistic Technique” in the State Hermitage Museum in Russia
Alums Michael Simpson and Yeseul Song's project Indigo was profiled in Comm Arts
Alumni Renata Gaui and Francesca Rodriguez Sawaya presented their work at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center and gave a workshop on Weaving and Coding at the Currents New Media Festival, both in New Mexico
Faculty Member Gabe Barcia Colombo's AR exhibition was profiled in CNet
Alumni Ann Poochareon and Mark Argo were profiled in Futurpreneur Canada
A number of ITP Alumni were featured in the NEON Show in Brooklyn
ITP’s new online journal, Adjacent, recently launched Issue No. 4
Faculty Member Allison Parrish has published her latest book, Articulations, as reported in Rhizome
Alumni Mathura Govinarajan and Esther Hersh were featured on NYU's Entrepreneurial Institute Blog
Sean Kim completed the Dalai Lama Fellowship and became a lifelong fellow
Alumna Marco Guarino opened a show called, Liminal Instruments: An Interactive Exhibition on the Present and Future of Music Technology
Alumni Rena Anakwe, Joelle Fleurantin and current student Barak Chamo were profiled in Medium by ITP Alum Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Alumna Donny Tsang shared tips for styling and editing food photography with Vulture Video
Alumni Mathura Govindarajan and Davíd Lockard presented their learning initiative, Paper Crane Lab, at the Bauhaus Centenary festival in Dessau, Germany
Alum David Gochfeld gave a workshop on producing live performance in social virtual reality at SXSW
Faculty Member Marianne Petit's work was displayed at the First Annual Booklyn Artists' Book Fair
The Processing Foundation and Creative Coding Fest at ITP were profiled on arts.Gov
Faculty Member Gabe Barcia-Colombo, has been announced as one of Adobe's Augmented Reality Residents
A group of ITP residents and alumni won Communication Arts Interactive Annuals Awards
Alumna Amy Khoshbin performed a new short piece called, You Never Know,with Laurie Berg and friends on the main stage of the Whitney Museum for the launch of VECTOR Artist Journal #8
“The Humans of Tomorrow”, a group from ITP, designed and produced a 10,000 sq. foot exhibit for Solutions Zone at the Coal+Ice climate exposition in San Francisco
Student Terrick Gutierrez demoed his project, Misunderstood, at the NYC MEDIA LAB 100 Demo Expo
Alumna Or Fleisher's research paper on the 3D Reconstruction of History was published in SIGGRAPH ’18
The Black Experience in Americafeatured ITP alum Ari Melenciano
Alum Mark Kleback was written up in the Bushwick Daily
Lucifer Landing I, by Jonathan González and created in collaboration with Rena Anakwe, Pamela Liou, and Nadia Schwartz Tykulsker was on display at Moma PS1
Alumni Yasmin Elayat and Elie Zananiri won the Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary for their project, Zero Days VR
ITP students and alumni presented works at the 2018 Maker Faire
Alumna Maja Petric has opened her installation, A Panorama of the Skies, at MadArt Studio
Students Terrick Gutierrez, Louise Lessel, Christina Hall, Amitabh Shrivastava, Jenna Xu, Mingna Li and Chengchao Zhu, Hayeon Hwang presented work at the NYU Media Lab Summit
Alumna James Clar opened a solo exhibit called The World Never Ends
Alumna Alexander Lee presented an art installation, NO’ANO’A, at Marisa Newman Projects
Alumna Teresita Cochran was profiled in WBUR 90.9, covering her work and upcoming projects
Student Shreiya Chowdhary presented TEDx Talk: "Making Self-Doubt Your Superpower", at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India
ITP students Jasmine Soltani and Regina Cantu de Alba received the NYU Green Grant
NYU's Ability Project and Google Create Labs partnered on the ITP Floor to create a more accessible music world, featured on Pix 11 News
Alum Heather Dewey-Hagborg's project, LoveSick, was part of the STRP Festival 2019 in Eindhove, Netherlands
Alumna Jonah Brucker-Cohen received the Creative Techaward for his project, Healing Destinations, at NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit
Alumna David Lobser recieved the XRaward for his project, Cosmic Sugar, at NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit
Alumni CHiKA, Hayeon Hwang, Tiri Kananuruk, Sebastian Morales, Michael Simpson, Yeseul Song, and David Temchulla joined the Mana Contemporary’s 2018–19 New Media Residents
Alumni Cristobal Valenzuela and Anastasis Germanidis’ project, Uncanny Road, was featured in Fast Company
Alumna and Research Resident Ari Melenciano presented her work at the EYEO Festival
Alumna Nathaniel Stern released a new book, Ecological Aesthetics
Alumna Hayeon Hwang was awarded the Engineering Award for her project, Expressive Tactile Controls, at NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit
Alumni Todd Bryant and Kat Sullivan received first prize for their project, Relevant Motion,at NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit
ITP Alums Yeseul Song and Michael Simpson were featured on 3ders.org for their assistance on a 3D Printed Glow Box
ITP Alum Beliz Demircioglu has published the book, Improvisation in the Expressive and Performing Arts
Alum Molly Schwartz presented her work, Breakthrough and Anas v the Giant at SXSW
Graduate students Mengzhen Xiao and Lin Zhang formed a New Company in NYC Media Lab’s Combine Accelerator Program
Photography & Imaging
Carry Over: New Voices, from the Global African Diaspora, curated by DPI faculty member Kalia Brooks Nelson, was exhibited at Smack Mellon
Chair Deborah Willis was appointed as the Director of the Institute of African American Affairs
For Freedoms, the country's first ever artist-run super PAC, co-founded by Hank Willis Thomas, was featured in the New York Times and TIME Magazine
Alumna Richard Rinaldi’s, Touching Strangers, received a boost from actor and musician, Will Smith
Hyperallergic interviewed Chair Deborah Willis about her appointment as director of the NYU Institute of African American Affairs and the founding of the Center for Black Visual Culture
Chair Deborah Willis and alum Hank Willis Thomas were honored at the 2018 Aperture Foundation Gala
Alumna Julia Wang was awarded the Princeton In Asia Teaching Fellowship
Professor Karl Peterson collaborated with Joan Baez in a new video, The Great Correction
Chair Deb Willis and alum Hank Willis Thomas spoke at TedWomen 2018
Moore College of Art & Design awarded its 2018 Visionary Woman Awards to theart historian and Chair Deborah Willis, Ph.D
Lili Kobielski '10 was selected as one of 18 artists featured in the exhibition, The Way Live Now, by Aperture
The Writing on the Wall, a collaborative installation between Hank Willis Thomas ’98, and professor of John Jay College Baz Dreisinger, was awarded a $150,000 grant from the Agnes Gund Art for Justice Fund.
DPI professor Lorie Novak presentedThe Afterlife of Images at NYU Florence’s Villa La Pietra
The Toronto Starfeatured the work of professor Wafaa Bilal about his exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum
Alumna Ifétayo Adbus-Salam'06 became Manager of Museum Education and Community Partnerships
WABC-TV New York City aired a feature on former Future Imagemakers student Aaron Philip, a Bronx teenager making waves as a disabled, black, trans model
Aluma Rebecca Arthur received a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship award to France
Faculty member Bayete Ross Smith was named one of the 2019 Presidential Leadership Scholars
Professor Lorie Novak presentedThe Afterlife of Images at NYU Florence’s Villa La Pietra
The SCAD Museum of Art presents, In the Present: Five Decades, by Professor Elaine Mayes exploring works that span 50 years of her career
Alumni Janna Ireland ’07 and Paul Mpagi Sepuya ’04 have artwork featured in the Aperture Magazine edition entitled Los Angeles