Highlights: Fall 2025

Institute of Performing Arts

Art & Public Policy

Michael McElroy (Professor, Art and Public Policy and Associate Dean of the Institute of Performing Arts) co-conceived a Juneteenth Concert in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center produced by Black Theatre United.

Laura Ibáñez Kuzmanic '23 (MA, Art and Public Policy) was selected for an international fellowship during this year’s Berlin Biennale representing El Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende.

Ella Shohat (Professor, Art and Public Policy) has a new book called Langue et memoire juives-arabes: Politique du trait dunion, a collection of essays translated into French.

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn '20 (MA, Art and Public Policy) gave an artist talk at Rutgers University–Newark about her recent work in Senegal, including a new installation and a self-portrait series.

Edgie Amisial '24 (MA, Art and Public Policy) was accepted to the ARTWorks Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL).

Tarisse Iriarte '24 (MA, Art and Public Policy) was presented with a Global Ambassador of Peace award from the UN Women's Federation for World Peace International.

Kathy Engel (Professor, Art and Public Policy) participated in the symposium: "On Call: June Jordan, Palestine, and the Black Radical Tradition at Stony Brook." 

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn '20 (MA, Art and Public Policy) wrote the guest essay “The Wish to Be Seen” in the New York Times.

Dance

cari ann shim sham* (Arts Professor, Dance) shared her passion of experimental movement into the world of technology with “Hello Chelsea” // Techspressionism 2025, an exhibition at the Hudson Guild Gallery. 

Daniel Padierna ‘20 (MFA, Dance) was appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at Adelphi University.

Richard Move (Assistant Arts Professor, Dance) made their Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) debut for Next Wave 2025 with their acclaimed dance-theater work “Martha@BAM - The 1963 Interview.”

Tatiana Nuñez ‘22 (BFA, Dance) made her Broadway debut in The Lion King on Broadway.

Bridget L. Moore '06 (MFA, Dance) was announced as a 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria Recipient.

Richard Move (Assistant Arts Professor, Dance) was featured as Martha Graham in Martha@The 1963 Interview as part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2025 at BAM Fisher.

Monica Barbaro '10 (BFA, Dance) was featured on the 2025 TIME100 Next list.

Monica Barbaro '10 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Design for Stage & Film

Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 2025 Tony Award.

Sim Carpenter ‘25 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) and Xorlali Plange ‘25 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) worked on The Wrath of Othell-Yo!, which was featured at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Kalina Ivanov '83/'89 (MFA, Design for Film & Stage)/(MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Rich Murray '04 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Patrick Howe '84 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Casey Smith '05 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Aaron Black '02 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Tricia Barsamian '07 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Dina El-Aziz ‘15 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was announced as a 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria Recipient.

Hinda Miller '76 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) and Polly Smith '75 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) were featured in a New York Times article discussing their invention of the Jogbra.

Sophie DiBella (Design for Stage and Film) was selected as an essay finalist for this year’s Mercer Street anthology. 

Tricia Barsamian '07 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

dots, which is comprised of Kimie Nishikawa '15 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film), Andrew Moerdyk '18 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film), and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde '18 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) were included in a feature in Architectural Digest.

Qween Jean '16 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was featured in Vogue Magazine spotlighting her costume designs for the new film adaptation of Saturday Church, and the ways in which her designs and activism in the community intersect.

Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) and Clint Ramos '97 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) were featured in the NYU Arts Digest, where their work was spotlighted.

Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was featured in Paper magazine for their “Coolest Person in the Room” interview that spotlighted Wicked and Wicked: For Good.

Drama

Dylan Tashjian '18 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Tony Award.

Sam Pinkleton '09 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Tony Award.

Alexandra Blanco ’24 (BFA, Drama) was featured in the Tisch website article: A Chance to Connect With Cuba (Again) about her study abroad experience. 

Jessie Komitor ‘11 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Tribeca Festival Award.

Brooklyn Boukather ‘20 (BFA, Drama) performed “Strangewife” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Douglas Urbanski '79 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Kristen Bell (Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Todd Kubrak '06 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Pedro Pascal (Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Cristin Milioti (Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Robert Delaney '99 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Stefanie Cohen Williams '00 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Josh Halloway '05 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Devin Delliquanti '06 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Sarah Silverman (Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Miles Teller '09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Sara Parks '99 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Bernard Telsey '82 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Adam Sandler '88 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Corey Pierno '06 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Fernando Segall '20 (BFA, Drama & Dramatic Writing) was announced among NYU Production Lab's Inaugural Artists in Residence Program.

Giuliana Carullo '13 (BFA, Drama) has been named as one of the 2025 Prince Fellowship recipients.

Sara Parks '99 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Devin Delliquanti '06 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Cristin Milioti (Drama) won a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jack Quaid (Drama) was featured on the 2025 TIME100 Next list.

Heather Christian '04 (BFA, Drama) was named one of this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grant Fellows.

Mary Bronstein '01 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for two 2025 Gotham Awards.

Adam Sandler ’88 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Gotham Award.

Lady Gaga (Drama) was nominated for multiple 2026 Grammy Awards. 

Sarah Silverman (Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Idina Menzel '93 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Alex Lin '18 (BFA, Drama) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Adam Sandler '88 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Kristen Bell (Drama) was nominated for multiple 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Douglas Urbanski '79 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Cristin Milioti (Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Leslye A. Headland '03 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Sarah Silverman (Drama) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Graduate Acting

Jaylen Eashmond ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Acting), Elizabeth Jarrett ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Acting), and Brendan George ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in The Wrath of Othell-Yo!, which was featured at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Sterling K. Brown '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Julie Sharbutt '09 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was selected for this year's Almanack Screenwriters Colony.

Saul Williams '97 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Laurence Maslon (Faculty, Graduate Acting) moderated a guest speaker event with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who starred in Waiting for Godot on Broadway alongside Brandon Dirden (Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting). 

Billy Crudup '94 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Sterling K. Brown '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

Will Aronson '07 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) won multiple 2025 Tony Awards.

Dahlak Brathwaite '17 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theater Writing) was announced as a 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria Recipient.

Kirsten Guenther (Cycle 16) presented THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY: AN OPERA in concert at The Cutting Room.

Deborah Abramson '99 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Will Aronson '07 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Sean Patrick Flahaven '97 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Winnie Holzman '83 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Performance Studies

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '07 (MA, Performance Studies) won a 2025 Tony Award.

Pamela Santana Oliveros (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) was awarded a Public Humanities Fellowship from The Latinx Project at New York University.

Lele Han (MA candidate, Performance Studies) had the article, “The Young China: Musical Theatre Reperformances by Chinese Generation Z Fans,” received Honorable Mention in the 35th TDR: The Drama Review Student Essay Contest. 

Lukas Woodyard ‘20 (MA, Performance Studies) presented their first production, Good Samaritans, at The Tank Theater with their collective Out of Order. 

Monika Błaszczak '24 (MA, Performance Studies) premiered her new work, "Clay", in Venice at Palazzo Contarini Polignac. 

Allen Baylosis ‘21 (MA, Performance Studies) completed his summer fellowship at The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) under the seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice." 

Shannon Woods ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) was awarded the prestigious Gertrude Lippincott Award for her article, “The Threat Is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill,” published in Theatre Journal (Vol. 76, No. 3) at the Dance Studies Association Conference.

Diana Taylor (Professor, Performance Studies) was elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy.

Jessamyn Fitzpatrick ‘23 (MA, Performance Studies) presented "The HeteroMonotony Project" with the Kinship Theatre Collective, which was the recipient of the Episcopal Actor's Guild's 2025 Open Stages Grant.

Stacey Manos ‘24 (MA, Performance Studies) and Ellie Houlihan ‘24 (MA, Performance Studies) wrote, directed, and stage managed their production, Best Thing in the World which was featured in the Gene Frankel Theater Festival.

Sunmi Yong ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) founded gmtc - golden monkey trading company, a new performance laboratory nestled in New York's Chinatown.

Areum Jeong ‘08 (MA, Performance Studies) wrote Beyond the Sewol that was published. 

Anh Vo ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) presented their first solo exhibition "Punish, Perform, Possess" at Asian Arts Initiative.

Isaac Silber (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) performed a sonic activation of María-Elena Pombo's site-specific installation, “Fuerte Quebracho” at an abandoned structure at Fort Tilden.

Alhena Katsof ‘19 (MA & PhD candidate, Performance Studies) chaired a session at Yusef Lateef Symposium.

Richard Move ‘10 & ‘19 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) was featured as Martha Graham in Martha@The 1963 Interview as part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2025 at BAM Fisher.

Patrícia Gomes ‘17 (MA, Performance Studies) graduated from UC Berkeley with her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Women and Gender Studies.

Summer Kim Lee ‘11 & ‘17 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) published the monograph Spoiled.

Mateo Rodriguez-Hurtado ‘20 (MA, Performance Studies) hosted "LATIN TWINKS LIVE!" at Club Cumming.

André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies) participated in a conversation at Concordia University.

Denisse Griselda Reyes (MA candidate, Performance Studies) screened their film as a part of the Bodega Film Festival.

Jen Huang ‘22 (PhD candidate & MA, Performance Studies) contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog for On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival.

Barbara Browning (Faculty, Performance Studies) and isa saldaña (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) performed at The Swiss Institute in collaboration with the editorial collective of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

Fusako Innami ‘08 (MA, Performance Studies) was recognized as the runner-up for the British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025 for the book: Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan.

Sandra Ruiz ‘02 & ‘11 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) published the book: Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor with NYU Press.

André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies) spoke at the Carlito Carvalhosa book launch where he also contributed essays to the volume.

Misty De Berry (Assistant Professor, Performance Studies) ran an interactive "Conferencing" workshop for BA, MA, and PhD students in the Center for Research & Studies departments.

Dakota Camacho ‘15 (MA, Performance Studies) was named a 2025 Artist Fellow as part of the Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) program.

Pamela Santana Oliveros (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) published her article, “Afrofutur1st Garçon: From Material to Matter,” in Intervenxions, the online publication of The Latinx Project at New York University. 

Biba Bell ‘15 (PhD, Performance Studies) had the article, “Becoming Epiphyte: Tree Sitting, Hypermingling, (Para)sitism, and Abolition Ecologies,” published in the special issue of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. 

Jill Dolan ‘89 (PhD, Performance Studies) received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from Princeton University.

Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe ‘04 (MA, Performance Studies) served as Executive Producer for "The Banjo Boys" premiering at ADIFF.

Joshua Javier Guzmán ‘15 (PhD, Performance Studies) was selected to be the next editor in chief of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.

Institute of Emerging Media

Clive Davis Instiute of Recorded Music

Eamon O’Connor (Recorded Music) was selected as an essay finalist for this year’s Mercer Street anthology. 

Sedona Schat ’16 (BFA, Recorded Music) and Noah Yoo '16 (BFA, Recorded Music) also known as the pop duo Cafuné, joined for an exclusive listening party and conversation of their album Bite Reality with the CDI community.

David Biral ’15 (BFA, Recorded Music) and Denzel Baptiste ’14 (BFA, Recorded Music) also known as production duo Take A Daytrip, were declared Artists-In-Residence for the Fall 2025 semester.

Alessandra Clarke, Aviad Poznansky, Dustin Averbuch, Luisa Wilson, Sumaya Bouhbal, and Zane Mattingly (all current students, Recorded Music) with direction by JD Samson (Performance Area Head and Associate Arts Professor, Recorded Music) were invited to participate in The Guggenheim Museum’s Students First: Soundscape. 

Maggie Rogers ‘16 (BFA, Recorded Music) and CDI were featured in Billboard's 2025 Top Music Business Schools List.

Dan Charnas (Associate Professor, Recorded Music) won the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism from the 56th annual ASCAP Foundation. 

Andrew Watt (Recorded Music) was nominated for multiple 2026 Grammy Awards. 

EJAE '14 (BFA, Recorded Music) was nominated for multiple 2026 Grammy Awards. 

Audrey Nuna (Recorded Music) was nominated for multiple 2026 Grammy Awards. 

Ashley Kahn (Visiting Arts Professor, Recorded Music) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Alan Silverman (Adjunct Faculty, Recorded Music) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Kaleb “KQuick” Rollins '10 (BFA, Recorded Music) contributed to 2026 Grammy nominated projects.

Carlián Tamara '23 (BFA, Recorded Music) contributed to 2026 Grammy nominated projects.

Sam Everett '13 (BFA, Recorded Music) contributed to 2026 Grammy nominated projects.

Mitchell Prewitt '27 (Recorded Music) contributed to 2026 Grammy nominated projects.

Clive Davis '53/ Hon. '11 (Recorded Music & Tisch Dean's Council) spoke with Mark Ronson at the screening event of Do You Remember?

David Biral ’15 (BFA, Recorded Music) and Denzel Baptiste ’14 (BFA, Recorded Music) also known as Take A Daytrip (TADT), finished their artist residency, becoming the first-ever alumni Artists-In-Residence. 

Audrey Nuna (Recorded Music) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Kim Eun-Jae (EJAE) '14 (BFA, Recorded Music) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

ITP/IMA

Gabe BC (Faculty, ITP) directed David Byrne's new music video for "Everybody Laughs."

Lily Crandall ‘24 (MPS, ITP) was featured in an Alumni Family Profile on the Tisch website.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin ‘15 (MPS, ITP) was featured in NEW INC's DEMO2025 festival.

Yuxiang Chen ‘25 (BFA, IMA) was featured in the NYU news article: 7 New Grads on the Research Projects That Launched Their Careers.

Alan Winslow ‘22 (Adjunct Faculty, Collaborative Arts and MPS, ITP) was featured in the immersive exhibition "Dancing the Algorithm" at the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob's Pillow.

Christina Tang ‘25 (MPS, ITP) was announced among NYU Production Lab's Inaugural Artists in Residence Program to develop the immersive theater event: BIRTHDAY.

Sharon De La Cruz ‘15 (Faculty and MPS, ITP) was a featured speaker at Serious Play Conference 2025 with a session titled Adventures in TTRPG: Building Learning World with Dice, Devices, and Dialogue.

Tommy Martinez (Adjunct Faculty, ITP) and Melanie Hoff ‘17 (Adjunct Faculty and MPS, ITP) were announced as 2025-2026 resident artists for CultureHub’s Residency Program.

Ernesto Ríos ‘06 (MPS, ITP) opened his 28th solo exhibition, CÓDIGOS, at the Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí (CEART).

Mary Mark '24 (MPS, ITP), Xiaotian Zhang '24 (MPS, ITP), Jess Shen '24 (MPS, ITP) and John Luo '25 (MPS, ITP) presented work at PASEO 2025.

Lita Vinueza '24 (MPS, ITP), viola he '22 (MPS, ITP), and Rena Anakwe ‘15 (MPS, ITP) were announced as members of the twelfth annual NEW INC cohort for the September 2025 to June 2026 program cycle. 

Cristóbal Valenzuela '18 (MPS, ITP) was featured on the 2025 TIME100 Next list.

Micaelle Lages ‘24 (MPS, ITP) presented their research, titled "From family albums to synthetic memories: gender, dissidences and visibilities" at the Synthetic Narratives Symposium at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Aneesa Julmice ‘24 (BFA, IMA) was featured in the upcoming group exhibition, "soft weapons: Keep Your F*cking Hands Off My Body" at 12 Franklin St in Brooklyn. 

Blair Simmons (Assistant Arts Professor, ITP/IMA) was featured in the Letters for the Future exhibition at Brooklyn Public Library.

Tiri Kananuruk '18 (MPS, ITP) and Sebastián Morales Prado '18 (MPS, ITP) had their installation "Histolysis" featured in the NY Latin American Art Triennial as part of the "Smart Cities" exhibition.

Sophia Collender (current student, ITP) had her paper: How Money Could Move Us: The Feasibility of Payment Interoperability Among Global Mass Transit Systems featured in the 2025 Interledger Summit in Mexico City.

Tom Igoe (Faculty, ITP/IMA) and B Wu (current student, ITP) traveled to the Light Symposium, in Wismar, Germany to present their research. 

Ari Melenciano ‘18 (MPS, ITP) was featured in "The Age of Black Metal," an exhibition by Afrotectopia.

Marilyn Nance ‘98 (MPA, ITP) had the exhibit Spirit Faith Grace Rage open at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Bethany “B” Wu (current student, ITP), hebin rachel shin (current student, ITP), Jiyou Park (current student, ITP), Nasif Rincon Romaite (current student, ITP), Nikolai Kozak (current student, ITP), Audrey DOh (current student, ITP), Helen Lin (current student, ITP), Ian Cox (Staff, ITP/IMA), and Jasmine Nackash ‘25 (MPS, ITP & ITP/IMA Resident) was featured in "Perimeter" at All Street Gallery.

Melanie Hoff ‘17 (MPS, ITP) opened the interactive installation Dance Poem Revolution at CultureHub NYC.

Kelli Anderson (Adjunct Faculty, ITP/IMA) was featured in Adam Savage's Tested for their new pop-up book "Alphabet in Motion."  

Photography & Imaging

Danny Arensburg ‘25 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) photographed the "No Kings" protest that took place in New York City and was featured alongside the article, "Hitting the Streets With ‘No Kings Day’ Protesters." in The Cut magazine.

Sean Fader (Assistant Professor, Photography & Imaging) had “Insufficient Memory” acquired by the Brooklyn Museum.

Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) was featured in Vogue for her new book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present.

Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) was featured by the Guardian in the article, ‘A sense of self and self-worth’: Deborah Willis on the importance of Black photography. 

Sam Contis ‘04 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) had her first institutional solo show at the Phases exhibition with the film: Five Kilometers at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Zalika Azim (Professor, Photography & Imaging) had the solo exhibition Blood Memories (or a going to ground) open in Texas.

Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) and Hank Willis Thomas ‘98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) were featured in the Family Album exhibition in Las Vegas. 

Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) was featured in the Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births exhibit.

Denise Hewitt '24 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

NYU Game Center

Joella Lin (Game Design) was selected as an essay finalist for this year’s Mercer Street anthology. 

Zeke Virant ‘14 (MFA, Game Design) worked as lead game designer on one of the most widely acclaimed film-to-game crossovers of recent years: “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”, which Esquire described as "the best Indiana Jones story in decades." 

Frank Lantz (Founding Chair, NYU Game Center) and his family studio, Everybody House Games released the demo for “Q-UP.”

Jenny Jiao Hsia ‘16 (BFA, Game Design) and AP Thomson ‘15 (MFA, Game Design) released Consume Me which began ten years ago as Jenny's senior capstone and was featured in the written up in the New York Times among other outlets.

Bennett Foddy (Academic Director & Associate Arts Professor, NYU Game Center), Maxi Boch (Associate Arts Professor, NYU Game Center) and Gabe Cuzzillo ‘15 (BFA, Game Design) worked on Baby Steps and were featured in the New York Times.

Julian Cordero '19 (BFA, NYU Game Center) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television: 

Cinema Studies

Caitlin Clements '13 (MA, Cinema Studies) won a 2025 Tony Award.

David Jammy '97 (MA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Declan Mulvey '00 (BFA, Film & TV/Cinema Studies) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

David Jammy '97 (MA, Cinema Studies) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Steven Farneth '07 (MA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

John Zois '08 (BA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Dramatic Writing

Josephine Jung (Dramatic Writing) was declared a winner of the 2025 Green Violet Script Call for The Sea Women.

Adriana Kyncl (MFA candidate, Dramatic Writing) was declared a winner of the 2025 Green Violet Script Call for The Last Womb.

Scott Thomas Huffman (Dramatic Writing) was declared a winner of the 2025 Green Violet Script Call for I Could Make You Care.

Andrés Worstell ‘25 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was mentioned at the 2025 Green Violet Script Call for Como Me Duele.

Kisha T. Burgos ’09 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Tribeca Festival Award.

Dan Erickson '12 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Noelle Valdivia '02 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Halley Wegryn Gross '10 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Samantha Riley '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ayo Edebiri '17 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Jessica Conrad '07 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Zachary Dean '05 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Matt O'Brien '92 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Daniel O'Brien '90 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Celeste Yim '20 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Megan Callahan-Shah '08 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Sudi Green '13 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Fernando Segall '20 (BFA, Drama & Dramatic Writing) was announced among NYU Production Lab's Inaugural Artists in Residence Program.

Zoë Rhulen '16 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was announced as a 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria Recipient.

Eka Savajol ‘24 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won the 2025 Goldberg Play Prize for The Apologetics.

Erin Gruodis-Gimbel ‘25 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was declared a 2025 Goldberg Play Prize finalist for MAiD in America.

Lisa Konoplisky ‘24 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was declared a 2025 Goldberg Play Prize finalist for Dog Park.

Michael D. Dinwiddie ‘83 (Professor and MFA, Dramatic Writing) curated the exhibition "Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way" on view at the New York Public Library.

Megan Callahan-Shah '08 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Sudi Green '13 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Daniel O'Brien '90 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Sanaz Toossi '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was featured on the 2025 TIME100 Next list.

George C. Wolfe '84 (MFA, Dramatic Writing & Tisch Dean's Council Member) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Audrey Hobert '21 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Dan Erickson '12 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Julia Cho '01 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Noelle Valdivia '02 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Samantha Riley '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Ayo Edebiri '17 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Graduate Film

Lucas Acher (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Hunter Redhorse Arthur (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Caroline Gohlke (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Bilal Hefner (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Taylor Lee (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Naa Adei Mante (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Oliver McGoldrick (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Vincent Mocco ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Max Wilson (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Film Production Fund.

Fredgy Noël (Graduate Film) was announced as a recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee + Sandra Ifraimova Production Funds.

Kwesi Jones ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) directed and starred in The Wrath of Othell-Yo!, which was featured at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Luke Kao (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) and Kai Hartman (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) worked on The Wrath of Othell-Yo!, which was featured at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Mia Cioffi Henry ‘16 (MFA & Professor, Graduate Film) had cinematography featured in Sorry, Baby which premiered nationwide.

Reuben Hamlyn (MFA, Graduate Film) was mentioned at the 2025 Green Violet Script Call for Dark World Children.

Cristian A. Carretero ’14 (MFA, Graduate Film) won multiple 2025 Tribeca Festival Awards.

Ro Haber ’17 (MFA, Graduate Film) won a 2025 Tribeca Festival Award.

Manya Glassman ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as a semifinalist for the Student Academy Awards in the Narrative Category for How I Learned to Die. 

Vincent Mocco ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as a semifinalist for the Student Academy Awards in the Narrative Category for Piedi Nudi.

Fenton Bailey (Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Nicole Kassell '02 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Kalina Ivanov '83/'89 (MFA, Design for Film & Stage)/(MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Kirsten Tan '14 (MFA, Graduate Film) was interviewed by Vogue Singapore detailing their favorite spots in Singapore to eat, drink, and hang out.

Alle Hsu ‘16 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 2025 Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab for Beach House.

Sofia Camargo ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 2025 Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab for Madeja.

Abigail Prade ‘15 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 2025 Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab for Er Tin Tin.

Cheryl Wong ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 2025 Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab for Nineteen, Monsoon.

Karen Madar ‘22 & ‘24 (MBA/MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as one of 11 participants in the 2025 Sundance Producers Lab with Little Phnom Penh. 

Anooya Swamy ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as one of ten fellows as part of the 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship.

MG Evangelista ‘17 (MFA, Graduate Film) and Shuli Huang ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) were named recipients of the 2025 New Voices Filmmaker Grant.

Cathy Yan ‘16 (MBA/MFA, Graduate Film) was appointed as the Purple List’s first president.

Cassidy Batiz (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), Fatima Loeliger (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Reuben Hamlyn (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) have been selected as the recipients of the 2024-2025 Black Family Prize for Thesis Short Films. 

Hasan Hadi ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival with their film The President's Cake.

Marina Xarri ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected for the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival with their film Habitat Hotel.

Jim Jarmusch (MFA, Graduate Film), Joshua Astrachan (Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film), and Fred Elmes ‘75 (MFA & Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film) premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival with Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.

Ana Alpizar (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), Madeline Finkel (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Yuqian Zhang (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival with Norheimsund.

Julia Solomonoff (Faculty, Graduate Film) premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival with Constantinopoliad.

Mia Cioffi Henry ‘16 (MFA & Professor, Graduate Film) premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival with Cover-Up.

Chheangkea '24 (MFA, Graduate Film), Pepi Ginsberg ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film), and Mariano Dongo (MFA, Graduate Film) were featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 2025 edition of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. 

Ashim Bhalla ‘13 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival.

Sofia Sondervan-Bild (Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film) premiered King Hamlet at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival.

Chloe Zhao (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Hamnet at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival.

East Elliott ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film), Spike Lee (Faculty, Graduate Film), Aliea Clark ‘23 (MBA/MFA, Graduate Film), and Ella Gibney (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered FROM SIDNEY, WITH LOVE at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival.

Eve Liu ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film), Spike Lee (Faculty, Graduate Film), Gregory Barnes ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film), Alex Bendo ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Film), Elias Putnam (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Mélanie Akoka ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Nervous Energy at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival.

Chloe Zhao (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Hamnet and received the People's Choice Award at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Joecar Hanna ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Talk Me and received the Best International Short Award at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Hasan Hadi ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered The President's Cake at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Shrihari Sathe (Faculty, Graduate Film) premiered Nomad Shadow at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Isabelle Mecattaf ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered Not Scared, Just Sad at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Nile Price ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered McNair at the Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.

Jomo Fray ‘18 (MFA, Graduate Film) was named a 2025 Film Independent Changemaker by Film Independent.

Karishma Dev Dube ‘19 (MFA, Graduate Film) and MG Evangelista ‘17 (MFA, Graduate Film) were named the winners of the 10th annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca CHANEL Women’s Filmmaker Program for their film, Strangers.

David Rafailedes (MBA/MFA, Graduate Film) was named one of the 2025 Film Independent Fiction Producing Lab Fellows for his project, Satoshi. 

Owain Astles (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), Roxy Moskowitz (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Mariano Dongo (MFA, Graduate Film) received the 2025 Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film. 

Tony Martinez (Adjunct Professor, Graduate Film) won the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie Or Special for his work as the ADR Editor on The Penguin. 

Taylor Sanghyun Lee ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) received the 2025 Grad Film Volker Bahnemann Award.

Jim Jarmusch (MFA, Graduate Film), Fred Elmes ‘75 (MFA & Adjunct Instructor, Graduate Film) and Joshua Astrachan (Adjunct Instructor, Graduate Film) had Father Mother Sister Brother screened at the 63rd New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. 

Mia Cioffi Henry ‘16 (MFA & Professor, Graduate Film) had Cover Up and Fragments of Venus screened at the 63rd New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

Lucio Castro (Adjunct Instructor, Graduate Film) had Drunken Noodles screened at the 63rd New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

Eve Liu ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film), Gregory Barnes ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film), Alex Bendo ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Film), Elias Putnam (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Mélanie Akoka ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) had Nervous Energy screened at the 63rd New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

Sofía Camargo ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) was one of five recipients of the 2025 Vimeo Short Film grant for her film La Selva.

Julia Loktev ‘00 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Gotham Award.

Eric Lin ‘06 (MFA, Graduate Film) directed, wrote, and executive produced the feature film Rosemead which opened in theatres.

Lyle Vincent ’07 (MFA, Graduate Film) worked as cinematographer for the feature film Rosemead which opened in theatres. 

Robert Pietri ’06 (MFA, Graduate Film) worked as titles designer for the feature film Rosemead which opened in theatres. 

Max Walker-Silverman, Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, Ramzi Bashour, Jason Brownrigg, and Noam Argov (all MFA, Graduate Film) worked on the feature film Rebuilding which came out in theatres. 

Chloé Zhao (Graduate Film) was nominated for multiple 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Maria Belen Poncio ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) was the inaugural recipient of the Anthony Jannelli Grant For Outstanding Cinematography.

Alex Bendo ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Film), Shao Min Chew Chia ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film), and Pepi Ginsberg ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film) were three of thirty participants chosen for the inaugural Square Peg Social.

Undergraduate Film & Television

Ramiel Petros ‘19 (BFA, Film & TV) and Nicholas Freeman ‘19 (BFA, Film & TV) were featured in an article about their film: “The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel.”

Haley Odum ‘25 (BFA, Film & TV) produced The Wrath of Othell-Yo!, which was featured at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Sarah H. Goher ’07 (BFA, Film & TV) won multiple 2025 Tribeca Festival Awards.

Suzannah R. Herbert ’10 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Tribeca Festival Award.

Manya Glassman ‘24 (MFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Tribeca Festival Award.

Caroline Baron (Adjunct Faculty, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jen Statsky '08 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Marika Sawyer '05 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Amanda Rohlke '09 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ronald Bronstein '96 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Matt Wolf '05 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Justin Wilkes '99 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Hillary Olsen '94 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Eric Monsky '96 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jordan Barker '99 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

John Skidmore '08 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jeremy Tchaban '03 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Timothy Moran '10 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Charlie Redd '14 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ben Marshall '17 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Scott Hercman '14 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Martin Herlihy '19 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jake Nordwind (Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Jeremy Saulnier '98 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Adam Newport-Berra '09 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ben Kutchins '00 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Rick McGuinness '82 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Geoffrey Richman, ACE '97 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Joanna Naugle '11 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Mickala Andres '16 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ryan Spears '11 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Sean McIlraith '13 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ryan McIlraith '16 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

John M. Davis '87 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Barry London '96 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Troy Smith '89 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

John Perez '85 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Jennifer Murray '92 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Eric Becker '04 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Christine Kapo Ng '07 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Harry Teitelman '09 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

April S. Chang '19 (BFA, Film & TV) was selected as one of 11 participants in the 2025 Sundance Producers Lab with Dying is Fine.

Harlan Banks '26 (Film & TV) was selected as one of ten fellows as part of the 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship.

Giles Perkins '21 (BFA, Film & TV) was selected as one of ten fellows as part of the 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship.

Ben Marshall '17 (BFA, Film & TV) was announced as a new SNL featured cast member.

Jolie Hoang-Rappaport (Film & TV) was selected as an essay finalist for this year’s Mercer Street anthology. 

Muhammad Siddiqui (Film and TV and Mathematics) was selected as an essay finalist for this year’s Mercer Street anthology. 

Ryan Spears '11 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Sean McIlraith '13 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Ryan McIlraith '16 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Jake Nordwind (Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Ronald Bronstein '96 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Matt Wolf '05 (BFA, Film & TV) won multiple 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Rick McGuinness '82 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Jennifer Murray '92 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Adam Newport-Berra '09 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Jeremy Saulnier '98 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award.

Jeremy Tchaban '03 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Charlie Redd '14 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Primetime Emmy Award.

Ronald Bronstein ’96 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Gotham Award.

Alexandre Gavras (Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Gotham Award.

Susan Sandler (Professor, Film & TV) had her film Crossing Delancey added to the The Criterion Collection.

Justin Wilkes '99 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.

Eli Taylor-Lemire (Film & TV) was named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Ronald Bronstein '96 (BFA, Film and Television) was nominated for multiple 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Alexandre Gavras (Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Vince Gilligan '89 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Mark Kamine '92 (MFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Jenn Statsky '08 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Gandja Monteiro '07 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Ehren Kruger '93 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Mike Jones '94 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Christine A. Sacani '87 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2026 Golden Globe Award.

Virtual Production Center

Ariana Taveras (Associate Director Masters in Professional Studies, Virtual Production) joined a panel at AICP to speak about education’s role in emerging technologies.

Martin Scorsese ’64, ’68, Hon. ’92 and Francesca Scorsese '23 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) attended a collaboration event with Lavazza.

Special Programs

Media Producing

Jacquetta Farrar (MA candidate, Media Producing) received the Wasserman Internship Grant.

Kelly Needleman (MA candidate, Media Producing) was featured for their work at Wayfarer Studios.

Spencer Folmar (MA candidate, Media Producing) was featured for his work on Saint Nick of Bethlehem and his development of several feature projects through his company, Hard Faith Films. 

Sydné Chesson (MA candidate, Media Producing) started a non-credit apprenticeship with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.

Susan Gard (MA candidate, Media Producing) was nominated for two 2025 Suncoast Emmy Awards. 

Paul Michael Bloodgood (MA candidate, Media Producing) was nominated for two Lone Star Chapter EMMY® Awards for his commercials Love's Gentle Spring and Romeo & Juliet. 

Paul Michael Bloodgood (MA candidate, Media Producing) won a Lone Star Chapter EMMY® Awards for his commercial Love's Gentle Spring.

Kelly Needleman (MA candidate, Media Producing) helped organize the event: “The Creator in the Age of AI: How to Use AI Ethically” at Tisch’s campus in Brooklyn.

Craig Jolley (Media Producing) screened his short film Dead Roommate, a project he directed alongside his son, Zachary Maxwell, an Undergraduate Film and Television major, for his thesis in the Media Producing program.

Kelly Needleman (MA candidate, Media Producing) co-hosted a special NYU screening of Billy Knight.