Highlights: Fall 2022

Thursday, Dec 15, 2022

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

Institute of Performing Arts

ART & PUBLIC POLICY

Pato Hebert, Chair and Professor of the Art & Public Policy department, presented as part of The Photographers' Gallery's program, "Teachers’ Session: Photography & Climate Change"

Michael C. Liu ‘11 (MA, Art & Public Policy) was casted for the play, Golden Shield

Kathy Engel, Art & Public Policy Professor, launched two banners from Ellen Driscoll and her "eyechart" collaboration as part of the Garden of Friends Exhibition

SCOTTY GORHAM '22 SHOWING HIS PROJECT <i>'THE MACO GARDEN'<i>
SCOTTY GORHAM '22 SHOWING HIS PROJECT 'THE MACO GARDEN'

Scotty Gorham ‘22 (MA, Art & Public Policy) received both the Tisch Creative Research Grant and the Public Humanities Grant for his project “The MACO garden.”

Kathy Engel, Art & Public Policy Professor, spoke on a panel commemorating the June 12, 1982 Demonstration for Nuclear Disarmament and Human Needs

Antonieta Landa ‘22 (Art and Public Policy) launched La Revista, Chilean Creatures Magazine at Mil Mundos Bookstore

Ying Qi ‘22 (Art & Public Policy) exhibited work in a new exhibition called, “wǒmen in war(s)”

Gina Goico ‘21 (Art & Public Policy) was selected as a 2022-23 Research Fellow at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

Anna Deveare Smith, Art & Public Policy Professor, was nominated for an Antonyo Award

​​Xyza Cruz Bacani ’20 (MA, Art & Public Policy) received the inaugural Corky Lee Fellowship 

Leah Natasha Thomas ’00/’11 (BFA, Drama/MFA, Arts Politics) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Russell Ladson ’22 (MA, Art & Public Policy) was awarded the Tisch Creative Research grant for his project, “This Ain’t About Resiliency. This Is About Regeneration.”

​​Liz Andrews ’09 (MA, Art & Public Policy) was featured in The Atlanta Journal Constitutional article, "New director brings power of female activism to Spelman Museum of Fine Art."

Kathy Engel, Art & Public Policy Professor, presented Eyechart as part of the Writers and Books Artist in Residence Program

Ella Shohat, Art & Public Policy Professor, was invited to serve as Co-Head Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan

Ricardo Gamboa ‘13 (MA, Art & Public Policy) presented a new play, The Wizards

Pato Hebert, Chair of Art & Public Policy, presented work at Let’s Talk: Vulnerable Bodies, Intimate Collectivities

Marjuan Canady ‘10 (MA, Art & Public Policy) co-produced Arthur Miller’s, Death of A Salesman, on Broadway

Karen Finley, Art & Public Policy Professor, was honored at the ISSUE Project Room 2022 Gala 

DANCE

Giada Matteini, Distinguished Teacher of Dance, was interviewed by Dance Magazine

Richard Move, Assistant Arts Professor of Dance, was selected as a Performing Arts Research Fellow by The New York Library

ADG FESTIVAL 2022 HONOREE PHYLLIS LAMHUT
ADG FESTIVAL 2022 HONOREE PHYLLIS LAMHUT

Phyllis Lamhut, Adjunct Teacher of Dance, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Dance Performance Festival 

Angie Pittman, Assistant Arts Professor of Dance, was nominated for a Bessie Award

Seán Curran, Chair of the Dance Department, and Adjunct Instructor, Ben Freedmanperformed in a reimagined revival of Pandora's New Cake Stain

Kyle Abraham '06 (MFA, Dance) was nominated for a Bessie Award

GRADUATE ACTING

Angel Desai ’97 (MFA, Grad Acting) received a 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Award

Brandon J. Dirden, Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Acting department, was nominated for an Antonyo Award

Nikiya Mathis ‘08, Susan Kelechi Watson ’03, Rebecca Haden ’17 (MFA, Graduate Acting) were all nominated for an Antonyo Awards

Carl Cofield, Graduate Acting Chair, directed the Classical Theater of Harlem’s Twelfth Night

JULIE BENKO '21 STARRED IN <em>FUNNY GIRL<em> ON BROADWAY
JULIE BENKO '21 STARRED IN FUNNY GIRL ON BROADWAY

Julie Benko ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl

Billy Crudup ’94 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Morning Show

Marcia Gay Harden ’88 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Morning Show

Ryan Michelle Bathe ‘01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the NBC thriller, The Endgame

Crystal Lucas-Perry ‘13 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred as John Adams in the Broadway revival of 1776

PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Stachy Saint-Gerard, Noah Witke Mele, and Ruochen Shen ‘22 (BA, Performance Studies) received 2022 Performance Studies Graduation Awards

Cynthia Delgado Huitron (Performance Studies) received the Monroe Lippman Memorial Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation

Tara Willis (Performance Studies) received the Deena Burton Memorial Scholarship in Dance 

Masi Asare '07/'18 (MA/PhD, Performance Studies) was nominated for an Antonyo Award

Hetty King '03 (MA, Performance Studies) published the posthumous manuscript of Nancy Topf's work, A Guide to Somatic Movement Practice, The Anatomy of Center

Alexandra T. Vazquez, Performance Studies Associate Professor, presented the annual Juan Antonio Ramírez lectures at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

2022 PERFORMANCE STUDIES M.A STUDENT AWARD WINNERS
2022 PERFORMANCE STUDIES M.A STUDENT AWARD WINNERS

Jackie AbhulimenFluffy Andres AguilarJoão Victor ToledoRuisi ZhangLuisa Alarcon Criales, Ri Desta, and Leilani Douglas ‘22 (MA, Performance Studies) received 2022 Performance Studies Graduation Awards

Shanté Paradigm Smalls '05/'11 (M.A./ Ph.D., Performance Studies) published their first book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City

André Lepecki, Performance Studies Professor, was featured in the an issue of the MASKA Journal

Henry Castillo '22 (Ph.D., Performance Studies) was awarded a two-year position as a Provost’s Early Career Fellow in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin

Kate Berlant's '11 (MA, Performance Studies) was written up in the New York Times for her show, Kate

Karen Jaime's '03/'13 (M.A./Ph.D., Performance Studies) book, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida, was awarded a Silver Medal in The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Book category at the 24th Annual International Latino Book Awards

Júlia Murat (MA, Performance Studies) was awarded the top prize at the 75th Locarno Film Festival

Alexandra T. Vazquez’s, Performance Studies Associate Professor, book The Florida Room, was named one of the “15 Best Music Books of 2022” by Pitchfork

Mateo Rodriguez-Hurtado '20 (M.A, Performance Studies) debuted their new stand-up show GLORY W(hole)

Kristen Kelso '20 (M.A, Performance Studies) directed a new play, CRY IT OUT

JOÃO VICTOR TOLEDO'S '22 'THE SACRIFICE OF CASSAMBA BECKER'
JOÃO VICTOR TOLEDO'S '22 'THE SACRIFICE OF CASSAMBA BECKER'

João Victor Toledo '22 (M.A, Performance Studies) won the Audience Award for Best Play at the 30th annual Mix Brasil Festival for his play, The Sacrifice of Cassamba Becker

Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo’s '17 (M.A., Performance Studies) piece, Neurodivergent Pickling, premiered at the Invisible Dog Center in Brooklyn

Marc Arthur '19 (Ph.D., Performance Studies) was appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at Wayne State University

Joshua Lubin-Levy '10/'20 (M.A./Ph.D., Performance Studies) was appointed Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University

Allen Baylosis '21 (M.A., Performance Studies) was selected for the 2022/2023 Institute of Asian Research Fellows Program at the University of British Columbia

Alexandra T. Vazquez, Performance Studies Associate Professor, presented the annual Juan Antonio Ramírez lectures at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

Allen S. Weiss, Performance Studies Distinguished Teacher, was featured in the French literary newspaper Le Figaro Literaire

Kiana Karimi (Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies) was featured on the Time to Say Goodbye podcast

DRAMA

Peter Kim ’97, Kenneth Lee ’97, and Lipica Shah ’08 (BFA, Drama) received a 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Award

Moisés Kaufman '17 and Amy Marie Seidel '16 (BFA, Drama) won a Drama Desk Award for Seven Deadly Sins

2022 DRAMA DESK AWARDS
2022 DRAMA DESK AWARDS

Heather Christian '04 (BFA, Drama) won a Drama Desk Award for Oratorio for Living Things

Candis C. Jones ’11, Theo Stockman ’07, and Kadeem Ali Harris ’12 (BFA, Drama) were all nominated for an Antonyo Awards

Elizabeth Sarnoff ’99 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Barry

Rachel Brosnahan ’12 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Ikechukwu Ufomadu ’08 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Words With Ike (Cake)

Mary Birdsong ’90, Kerri Kenney ’92, Thomas Lennon ’92, and Robert Ben Garant (Drama) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon

Devin Delliquanti ’06 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

Anna Drezen ’10 and Jasmine Pierce ’12 (BFA, Drama) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Saturday Night Live

Chelsea Devantez ’09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Problem With Jon Stewart

2022 EMMY NOMINATIONS
2022 EMMY NOMINATIONS

Bernie Telsey ’82 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Only Murders In The Building

Janicza Bravo '03 (BFA, Drama) was represented in the 2022 LA Vanguard

Melissa Barrera (Drama) was represented in the 2022 LA Vanguard

Alisha Gaddis '03 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Grammy Award

Lady Gaga (Drama) was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards

Adam Sandler '88 (BFA, Drama) won a 2022 Gotham Award

Joshua "Domino" Schwartz '08 (BFA, Drama) won an Emmy Award for We're Here - "Evansville, Indiana"

GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING

Sean Patrick Flahaven, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Adjunct Assistant Professor, won a Tony Award for Company

Sam Rosenblatt & Elspeth Collard (both Cycle 29, GMTW) presented an evening of their new work at 54 Below

Sean Patrick Flahaven, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing department, won a Drama Desk Award for Company

Michael R. Jackson '03/'05 (BFA, Dramatic Writing/MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for multiple Antonyo Awards

Erin Reifler and Sean Pallatroni (Cycle 28) each presented works at the NYC venue, Green Room 42

Cheeyang Ng (Cycle 28, GMTW) was featured in Playbill's new Songwriter Series

Adam LaPorte (Current Student, GMTW) presented his new play, COURTSHIP, at the Tank Theatre

Katya Stanislavskaya (Cycle 17) had a reading of her new musical, THE USEFUL CITIZEN, at SUNY New Paltz

Caitlin Thomas & Mason McDowell (both Cycle 31, GMTW) presented solo performances of original songs at NYC's Rockwood Music Hall

75TH TONY AWARDS
75TH TONY AWARDS

Michael R. Jackson '03/'05 (BFA, Dramatic Writing/MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) won multiple Tony Awards for A Strange Loop

Kat Cartusciello & Alex Becker (both Cycle 30, GMTW) presented their new musical, THEN SHE RAN, at the Scranton Fringe Festival

James Powers (Current Student, GMTW) presented a reading of his new musical, UNFINISHED, as part of the Theatre [Untitled] Reading Series

Laurie Hochman and Bryan Blaskie (both Cycle 27, GMTW) had their new musical, NOTHING TO SEE HEREfeatured in NY Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab

Jaime Lozano (Cycle 18), Joey Contreras (Cycle 21), David Gomez (Cycle 25), and Julio Vaquero Ramos & Aliza Sotsky (both Cycle 31) participated in Latiné Musical Theatre Lab's First Annual Benefit Concert at the Soho Playhouse

David Mallamud (Cycle 13, GMTE) co-orchestrated R.E.M EXPLORED for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Kat Cartusciello & Alex Becker (both Cycle 30) presented their new musical THEN SHE RAN at the Scranton Fringe Festival

Helen Park & Max Vernon (both Cycle 22, GMTW) opened their new musical, KPOP, on Broadway

Zoe Ray Prawda (Cycle 32, GMTW) presented THE ELEMENT OF BELONGING at EAT New Works series

Carlos Bauzys (Cycle 32, GMTW) released Songbook Barbatuques: Volume 1

Max Vernon (Cycle 22) presented THE TATTOOED LADY at Philadelphia Theatre Co

Clare Fuyuko Bierman (Cycle 30), Brandy Hoang Collier (Cycle 29), and Erika Ji (Cycle 30) were included in this year's R&D Group at The Civilians with their new musical YOKO'S HUSBAND'S KILLER'S JAPANESE WIFE, GLORIA

Kirsten Childs, Adjunct Faculty Member of GMTW, produced new musical adaptation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Matt Graham and Sophie Boyce (both Cycle 32) presented their 20-minute musical, THE TALK, at New York Theatre Festival

CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS & TEENS, BY KERRY KAZMIEROWCZTRIMM
CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS & TEENS, BY KERRY KAZMIEROWCZTRIMM

Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm (Cycle 30, GMTW) published a book of contemporary monologues for kids and teens

Carrie Caffrey '21 & Earl Marrows '21 (MFA, GMTW) were included in the Theatre Now New York Writers Lab

Jaime Lozano (Cycle 18, GMTW) presented songs from his show Present Perfect! at 54 Below

Danny Haengil Larsen, GMTW Adjunct Professor and Department Admin, and Michelle Elliott (Cycle 14, GMTW) presented their musical, HART ISLAND, at the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley New Works Festival

Brandon James Gwinn (Cycle 19, GMTW) performed Four Pianos at 54 Below

Ernie Bird (Cycle 29, GMTW) brought his songs to the NYC venue Don't Tell Mama for his New York City solo concert debut

Peyton Marion & Caitlin Thomas (Both Cycle 31, GMTW) presented their show SWEAR BY THE MOON at 54 Below

Sean Patrick Flahaven, GMTW Faculty Member, was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards

Rona Siddiqui ‘12 (MFA, GMTW) was nominated for a Grammy Award

Bryan Blaskie (Cycle 27, GMTW) presented THE CHRISTMAS CAROLS at 54 Below

Jamie Buxton and Pablo Concha (Both Cycle 29, GMTW) presented QUILLÉN at New York Theater Festival's Winterfest

OPEN ARTS & COLLABORATIVE ARTS

Joseph Dorman, Open Arts Professor, premiered the documentary, Don Quixote in Newark, on PBS and Amazon Prime Video

Gustavo Aguilar, Associate Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts, performed with percussion ensemble The Forest

Danielle Russo, Open Arts Professor, choreographed and directed an exhibition at Governors Island as part of the LMCC River to River Festival

Anthony Weintraub, Open Arts instructor, screened his film, Tekkonkinkreet, at the Japan Society

Selina Chau, Open Arts Instructor, presented a new ballet titled, Destiny, at the annual Making Moves Dance Festival

A JOURNEY WITHIN A JOURNEY
A JOURNEY WITHIN A JOURNEY

Chitra Neogy, Open Arts Instructor, partnered with Netfilx to release her 1999 film, A Journey Within A Journey

Rogelio Martinez, Open Arts Instructor, premiered his new play, ELIÁN, at the Miami New Drama theatre

Chitra Neogy, Open Arts Instructor, premiered her new film, I Live in Love, at Time & Space Limited

Gustavo Aguilar, Open Arts Faculty Member, screened his film, This Part I Carry, at the Brighton Screen Dance Festival

Steven Drukman, Collaborative Arts Faculty Member, wrote an article about Paul Newman for the Kirkus Reviews, which made the cover of the November issue

DESIGN FOR STAGE & FILM

Beowulf Boritt '96 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) won a Drama Desk Award for Flying Over Sunset

Amith Chandrashaker '12 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) won a Drama Desk Award for Prayer for the French Republic

Bradley King '05/’10 (BFA, Drama/MFA, Design for Stage & Film) won a Drama Desk Award for Flying Over Sunset

2022 ANTONYO AWARDS
2022 ANTONYO AWARDS

Ari Fulton ‘14, Qween Jean ‘16, Kara Harmon ‘09, and Paul Tazewell ‘89  (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) were all nominated for an Antonyo Awards

Marci Mudd ’13, Rich Murray ’04, Jim Fenhagen ’82, Stephan Olson ’87, Jessica Trejos ’06, and Amanda Bujak ’06, Jordan Jacobs ’96, Ed McCarthy '91 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) were each nominated for Emmy Awards

​​Clifton Taylor '86 (Design for Stage & Film) and Linda Essig '85 (Design for Stage & Film) published books that were featured on BroadwayWorld’s "5 Books Every Lighting Design Student Should Read"

Beowulf Boritt '96 (Design for Stage & Film) published a book with Applause Books, Transforming Space Over Time

Marianne Auvinet Gould (MFA Candidate, Design for Stage & Film) was selected for BAFTA’s Newcomer Program

Jordan Jacobs ’91/’96 (BFA/MFA, Drama/Design for Stage & Film) and Rich Murray ’04 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) won an Emmy Award for Only Murders In The Building • True Crime

Zoe Allen (Year 3 Costume Designer, Design for Stage & Film) won a Princess Grace Foundation Award

Institute of Emerging Media

ITP & IMA

Yeseul Song (ITP) presented Two Subtle Bodies

Amy Khoshbin’s (ITP) featured her work, The Sun Seekers, in River to River Festival 

Ali Santana, ITP ​​Adjunct Faculty Member, and Matt Romein, ITP Faculty Member, hosted an art showcase, Xtensions

WOMEN IN LIGHTING
WOMEN IN LIGHTING

Jen Lewin (ITP) received a Woman In Lighting Award

Magdalena Claro (Current Student, ITP) was one of the 15 finalists for the 2022 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards

Lisa Jahmoury, ITP Adjunct Professor and former ITP Fellow, Kameron Nealjoined the MAXmachine cohort of award-winning artists, artist-engineers, activists, composers, and designers

Gabe Warshaw '23 and Armon Naeini '23 (ITP) were featured in the NYU-Yale Summer Accelerator Pitchoff

Jenny Wang ‘22 (ITP) was selected as part of the inaugural cohort of the U.S. Digital Corps

Marianne R. Petit, ITP Faculty Member, installed “an ARTFul Interpretation of Orthopedics” at the Montefiore Medicine Hutchinson campus, Gallery of ARTFul Medicine

T.K. Broderick (ITP) was featured at the Venice Immersive Festival

Spencer Ratanavanh’s (Student, ITP), film was selected by Dazed Magazine and CIRCA Art to be screened on the Piccadilly Lights in London

Sigi Moeslinger (ITP) was featured in the Curbed article, "We’ll Miss You, MetroCard Machine. This is our last year with the ubiquitous, hulking machine."

Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy (ITP) won the National Design Award

Stephen Downs, ITP's Adjunct Professor, wrote an article for Slate titled, "The Jetsons, Now 60 Years Old, Is Iconic. That’s a Problem."

Amogh Thakkar (Current Student, IMA) was featured in NYU Meet

ITP COMMUNITY HERB GARDEN
ITP COMMUNITY HERB GARDEN

​​Shindy Johnson, Adjunct Faculty Member, created the ITP Community Herb Garden 

Hannah Davis '13 (MPS, ITP) was selected for TIME’s, “TIME100 Next” list

Marilyn Nance’s (ITP) book, ​​Last Day in Lagos, was featured in the New York Times

Suraj Barthy (Current Student, ITP) was featured in the DEMO festival in the Netherlands

Nicholas Rubin (ITP), Creative Director at Dirt Empire, was awarded an Emmy for their VR Doc, Reeducated

Mimi Yin, ITP Faculty Member, and alumni Nuntinee Tansrisakul ‘20 (ITP), Yuguang Zhang ‘20 (ITP), Tiri Kananuruk ‘18 (ITP) and NiNi Dongnier ‘19 (Dance) presented a staging of the new performance from NUUM Collective, Doppelgänger, at the Boston Museum 

Marilyn Nance (ITP) new book, Last Day in Lagos, was featured in the New York Times

Yasmin Elayat’s (ITP) film was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy

Amelia Winger-Bearskin (ITP) released a new book called, How to co-create—and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice

Blair Simmons, ITP Staff Member, released a solo exhibition, “Archive of Digital Portraits Cast in Concrete”

Jaycee Holmes '18 (MPS, ITP) listed on Forbes “30 Under 30 List” 

GENOME, NYU GAME CENTER STUDENT TEAM
GENOME, NYU GAME CENTER STUDENT TEAM

NYU GAME CENTER

Abby Yaffe, Jordan Grayson, Darwin Vickers, Finn Carney, and Isaac Schankler (NYU Game Center) and their team, Genome, were awarded the 2022 Alfred P Sloan Grant

CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE OF RECORDED MUSIC

Maggie Rogers '16 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was featured in the New York Times

Nija Charles (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards

Emily Warren '15 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Record Music) was nominated for a Grammy Award

Andrew Wotman (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was nominated for a Grammy Award

65TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS
65TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Faculty Member in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award

Q-Tip, Faculty Member in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award

Jim Anderson, Faculty Member in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award

Blu DeTigerDenzel Baptiste '14 and David Biral '15 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music), were listed on Forbes “30 Under 30 List” 

PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (Photography & Imaging) received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography

Janna Ireland’s (Photography & Imaging) work was featured in the The New York Times

Deborah Willis, DPI Chair, partnered with Getty Images to curate Black History & Culture Collection

Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr. (Photography & Imaging) received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography

NEW YORK MAGAZINE'S 18TH ANNUAL "REASONS TO LOVE NEW YORK" ISSUE
NEW YORK MAGAZINE'S 18TH ANNUAL "REASONS TO LOVE NEW YORK" ISSUE

Hank Willis Thomas (Photography & Imaging) and Graduate Film Professor Spike Lee were featured on the cover of New York’s 18th annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue

Isabel Castro (Photography & Imaging) screened her feature film, Mija, at the Sundance Film Festival and the IFC

Isolde Brielmaier's, Photography & Imaging Professor, was reviewed by BrooklynRail.org for his new book, I Am Sparkling: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980

Sean Fader, Photography & Imaging Professor, had his project, Insufficient Memory (2020), acquired by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Würfel, Photography & Imaging Professor, had projects highlighted in the 29th issue of BE magazine

Fallon McDonald (Photography & Imaging) was featured in the Musée Magazine for their work, I LOVE YOU ANNI AND JOSEF

Michelle Watt (Photography & Imaging) photographed actress, Michelle Yeoh, for Time's 2022 "Icon of the Year" issue

Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

GRADUATE FILM

Razelle Benally (MFA, Graduate Film) was one of five writers for Dark Winds

Shuli Huang (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) won the Queer Palm of Festival de Cannes 2022 for the short film, Will You Look at Me

Abbesi Akhamie and Eris Qian (MFA, Graduate Film) were selected WScripted Cannes Screenplay List

Carole Rothman '72 (MFA, Directing) won a Tony Award for Take Me Out

Julienne Hanzelka Kim, Faculty Member in the Graduate Film department, received a 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Award

Gabriel Bier Gislason (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered his feature film, Attachment, at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

Jorge Sistos Moreno (MFA, Graduate Film) received the 2022 Jeff Lima Production Award

Charlotte Wells’ (MFA, Graduate Film) Cannes-winning film, Aftersun, was acquired by A24 

Irene Mercadal Albornoz (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) was the recipient of the 2022 Volker Bahnemann Award for Outstanding Cinematography

Zenzele Ojore (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) and Sontenish Myers (MFA, Graduate Film) were featured in Showtime’s new anthology series, Spotlights: A Showtime Short Film Series

KARISHMA DEV DUBE (LEFT) AT THE 2022 CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS
KARISHMA DEV DUBE (LEFT) AT THE 2022 CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

Karishma Dev Dube (MFA, Graduate Film) won four Critics Choice Awards for her short film, Bittu

Blanche Akonchong (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) received NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a new initiative in partnership with Netflix to support emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers with $25,000 in funding to create new work

Mia Cioffi Henry, Graduate Film Professor, was sworn into the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600

Joseph Sackett (MFA, Graduate Film) won Best First Feature at Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival for the film Homebody

Jeff Rutherford (MFA, Graduate Acting) premiered his first feature, A Perfect Day for Caribou, at the Locarno Film Festival 

Tony Kushner '84 (MFA, Directing) was nominated for an Antonyo Award

Julius Onah (MFA, Graduate Film) was chosen to direct the fourth installment of the Captain America film franchise

Cathy Yan ‘16 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for her work on Succession

Jessica Sharzer (MFA, Graduate Film) wrote and executive produced the sequel to A Simple Favor

Nicole Kassell (MFA, Graduate Film) directed Amazon’s new "She-Ra" live action series

Max Walker-Silverman’s (MFA, Graduate Film) A Love Song was released in theaters

Gail Segal, Graduate Film Professor, and Sheril Antonio’s new book, Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera, was featured in Filmmaker Magazine

Kevin Wilson Jr (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered his documentary, Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1, on Netflix

Leah Chen Baker (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) was named a Producing Lab Fellow of the Sundance Institute

Jomo Fray (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as one of the ten “2022 Rising Stars of Cinematography” by American Cinematographer

Ryan Heller (MFA, Graduate Film) produced Theater Camp for Topic Studios

Mark Kamine ’92 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Grad Film) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The White Lotus

Christina Alexandra Voros ’10 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Grad Film) was nominated for an Emmy Award for 1883 • Lightning Yellow Hair

Erica Freed Marker, Faculty Member in the Graduate Film department, and Geoffrey Richman ’97 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Severance • In Perpetuity

Jennifer Brooks ’98 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Grad Film) was nominated for an Emmy Award for We Need To Talk About Cosby • Part 1

HUANG SHULI WINS GOLDEN HORSE AWARD AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
HUANG SHULI WINS GOLDEN HORSE AWARD AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Huang Shuli (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) won the Golden Horse Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Will You Look At Me

Elegance BrattonCharlotte Wells, and Margaret Brown (MFA, Graduate Film) featured their films at the New York Film Festival

Elegance BrattonMarian Mathias, and Pepi Ginsberg (MFA, Graduate Film) featured their films at the Toronto International Film Festival

Martin Scorsese (Graduate Film) directed the upcoming adaption of the unreleased nonfiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder for Apple Original Films

Abbesi Akhamie (MFA Candidate, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was selected as a finalist for the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant

Yuan Yuan '22 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was selected as a finalist for the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant

Raven Johnson '19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was selected as a finalist for the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant

Charlotte Wells ’17 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple Gotham Awards

Elegance Bratton ’19 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Gotham Award

Elegance Bratton ’19 (MFA, Graduate Film) released The Inspection in theaters

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

Michael D. Ratner ‘14 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Grammy Award

Charlotte Wells ’17 (MFA, Graduate Film) won a 2022 Gotham Award

Mark Kamine ’92 (MFA, Graduate Film) won an Emmy Award for The White Lotus

UNDERGRADUATE FILM & TELEVISION

Dawn Smalberg '89 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Adam Zell '16 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a Tony Award for The Lehman Trilogy

Sarah Elizabeth Mintz ‘13 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Good Girl Jane

Avery Looser ‘22 (BFA, Undergraduate Film & Television) was a 2022 Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award semi-finalist for her screenplay, Simian

Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter (Undergraduate Film & Television) was nominated for a Sloan Student Prize

Jen Statsky ’08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for Hacks

Daniel Goldfarb ’95 and Matthew Shapiro ’06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an Emmy Award for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Vince Gilligan ’89 and Thomas Schnauz ’88 (BFA, Kanbar, Film & TV) were nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for Better Call Saul

Ravi Nandan ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Euphoria

Karyn Kusama ’90 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for Yellowjackets

Mark Gordon ’78 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Bryan Zuriff ’92 (BFA, Drama) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Ray Donovan: The Movie

TIME 100 NEXT
TIME 100 NEXT

Tyler Mitchell ’17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was selected for TIME’s, “TIME100 Next” list

Sarah Burgess ’06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Impeachment: American Crime Story • Man Handled

Martin Herlihy ’19 and Ben Marshall '17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Saturday Night Live

Stuart Winecoff ’13 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for McCartney 3, 2, 1 • These Things Bring You Together

David J. Frederick ’79 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Survivor

A.J. Catoline ’92 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Ted Lasso • No Weddings And A Funeral

Mark Paone ’82 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

John Skidmore '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award for A Black Lady Sketch Show

Allen Kelman ’77 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Ken Druckerman ’95 and Timothy Moran ’10 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an Emmy Award

Brian Grazer, Dean’s Council, and Justin Wilkes ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an Emmy Award

Justin Wilkes ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards

John Skidmore '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Joseph Gerbino ’12 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Sean McIlraith ’13 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Hillary Olsen ’94 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

John Roesch ’76 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Stefani Feldman ’09 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Laura Cunningham ’11 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Emmy Award

Eric Becker ’04 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards

SAL PEREZ '06
SAL PEREZ '06

Sal Perez '06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) became the Executive Producer of Sesame Street

Cidney Hue '11 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was selected as a finalist for the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant

Jake Friedman, UGFTV Professor, released his new book, The Disney Revolt

Jared Peraglia’s (UGFTV) film, Here to Stay, was a finalist for a Student Academy Award

Jomo Fray '18 and Christine Ng '06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were listed as two of the nine “Rising Stars of Cinematography” by American Cinematographer

Wendi Tang '21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & Television), was selected as the 2022 Award Recipient for the THROUGH HER LENS, The Tribeca CHANEL Women’s Filmmaker Program

Tyler Mitchell '17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) premiered his first solo exhibition, Chrysalis, at Gagosian, London

Wendi Tang '21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was selected as the 2022 Award Recipient for the THROUGH HER LENS program

Aubrey Plaza ’05 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Gotham Award

Karyn Kusama ’90 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Gotham Award

Jared Peraglia '22 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) earned a Student Academy Award silver medal for his film, Here to Stay

Karen Orzolek '01 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards

Jason Baum '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, FIlm & TV) was nominated for a Grammy Award

Ravi Nandan ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a 2022 Gotham Award

Jeremy Tchaban ’03 and Charlie Redd ’14 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

CINEMA STUDIES

The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP) and the Pratt Institute School of Information were awarded $600,000 by the The Mellon Foundation

Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing

Ben Snyder ‘07 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won a Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Allswell

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

Zayd Dohrn ‘07 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Mother Country Radicals

Adam Zell '16 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a Tony Award for Company

Jennifer Ashley Tepper ’08 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) received a 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Award

Adam Zell '16 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a Drama Desk Award for Company

Megan Callahan-Shah ’08, Billy Domineau ’12 (BFA, Dramatic Writing), and Celeste Yim ’20 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) were nominated for an Emmy Award for Saturday Night Live

Tirosh Schneider (Dramatic Writing) won the 2022 Goldberg Playwriting Award for his work, Daniel

Paul Kolsby ’91 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Ozark

Dan Erickson ’12 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for Severance

Donald Glover ’06 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an Emmy Award for Atlanta

Molly Smith Metzler ’06 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an Emmy Award for ​​MAID • Snaps

Dan Erickson '12 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) and Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) were selected for TIME’s, “TIME100 Next” list

Dan Erickson ’12 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Gotham Award

Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Gotham Award

Dailyn Rodriguez '96 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was represented in the 2022 LA Vanguard

Richard Wesley, Dramatic Writing Associate Professor, was awarded the AUDELCO Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the world of theater

Susan Soon He Stanton ’03 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing), won an Emmy Award for Succession

Bill Wrubel ’93 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won an Emmy Award for Ted Lasso