Institute of Performing Arts
Art & Public Policy
Anna Deavere Smith has been named a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.
Pato Hebert’s “In, If Not Always Of” is featured in Issue 85 of Fraction Magazine
Pato Hebert testified at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS (HLM) for the 2016 Political Declaration on behalf of a platform of global advocates and civil society (photo attached; courtesy of Global Forum for MSM & HIV (MSMGF Twitter)
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega initiated The Art of Justice 2 convening, focused on examining how the valuing of aesthetic production, culture and race has impacted financial investment in organizations of color and social justice arts
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega: won the Guapa Award from Dealmas Incorporated for "Afro Latina's Who Rock" Award from "Ain't I Latina?"
Dr. Ella Shohat's “The Question of Judeo-Arabic,” was the opening article in Arab Studies Journal, 23:1
Oskar Eustis profiled in VOGUE March issue: "Inside the High-Drama Life of Hamilton Impresario Oskar Eustis"
Karen Finley performed “The Jackie Look” at the Kessler Theater in Dallas as part of the Dallas Art Fair. She was interviewed by Theater Jones ahead of her performance. She performed the same show in November to sold out audiences at The Broad in Los Angeles.
Kathy Engel and her poem “I Will Not” was part of the booklet "Poems of Love and Welcome" used for public readings on street corners. It was featured at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival on April 15, 2016.
Dance
Elizabeth Coker: EdD, Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dissertation funding provided by TC's Provost Policy Award, Doctoral Research Dissertation Grant, the Ann Gentile Endowment, as well as generous support by Career Transitions for Dancers.
Design for Stage & Film
Alum Mimi Lien ‘03 was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for John
Alum David Zinn ‘91 was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for The Humans
Alum Clint Ramos ‘97 was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Eclipsed
Alum Mark Barton ‘03 was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for John
The work of NYU Tisch Design alums David Zinn '91, David Meyer '10, and Clint Ramos '97 was featured in the New York Post.
Design Department Associate Arts Professor and alumnus Allen Lee Hughes was honored by Arena Stage in Washington DC at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program.
Drama
Alumna Thais Francis, ‘12, won Essence Magazine’s 2016 Short-film contest for Late Expectations, about a teenage girl coming to terms with her identity.
During the revival of Spring Awakening, alumna, Ali Stroker, became the first actor in a wheelchair to perform on a Broadway stage. Ali discussed the experience during her TEDx Talk “Where There’s a Wheel, There’s a Way.”
Drama faculty Dell Howlett won a 2015 Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Choreography for his work on the Alliance Theatre’s production of The C.A. Lyons Project, an American play with dance.
Kevin Kuhlke, Arts Professor, directed a staged reading of his play Your Eyes and My Eyes at the Atlantic Theater Company. The cast included Drama alums Jessica Hecht, Mary McCann, and Michael Laurence, along with J. Smith Cameron and several Drama students.
Assistant Arts Professor, Michael McElroy, topped Playbill’s “Broadway Legacy,” an exhibition celebrating African American Achievement on Broadway.
Assistant Arts Professor Erin Mee’s article "The Rasa of Immersive Theatre" will be published in the book Immersive Performance: Engaging the Audience, forthcoming in June. Her article "Dancing on the Tongue" has just been accepted for the special issue of Performance Research On Taste.
The electronic version of Arts Professor Louis Scheeder’s book “All The Words on Stage" was published on shakespearepronounciation.com.
Arts Professor Louis Scheeder co-directed (with Daniel Spector) Hamlet in an Original Pronunciation production (the first of its kind in NYC) for The Classical Studio. In April, The Classical Studio hosted an all-day symposium on Original Pronunciation.
Graduate Acting
Rosa Gilmore ‘16 was cast in NYSF’s “The Taming of the Shrew”.
Corey Stoll ’03 recurs on Girls and plays Trigorin in a film adaptation of The Seagull.
Genevieve Angelson ’12 was cast in the Amazon original series, Good Girls Revolt.
Harry Ford ’14 was cast in primetime series Code Black.
Danai Gurira ‘04 has Eclipsed on Broadway and Familiar at Playwrights Horizons.
Cornelius Smith Jr. ‘07 was promoted to series regular on Scandal.
Mark Wing-Davey, chair, starred in one man show, The Double Man at The Public Theatre, hosted by the New York Review of Books, and lectured at NYU Abu Dhabi hosted by The British Council.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
Nathan Tysen ‘01 & Chris Miller’s ‘01 musical Tuck Everlasting opened on Broadway in April 2016.
Nikko Benson ‘13 and Sam Salmond ‘11 each received a 2016 Jonathan Larson Grant.
Sean Flahaven ‘98 won a Grammy as an Associate Producer of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton: An American Musical.
Timothy Huang ‘02 won the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater for his musical Costs of Living.
Royce Vavrek ‘07 premiered his opera JFK, which was commissioned by Fort Worth Opera and American Lyric Theater, at Fort Worth Opera in April 2016.
Michael R. Jackson ‘05 was chosen to be a Sundance Fellow at the UCross Foundation.
GMTWP Alums and Faculty nominated for this season’s NYC theatre awards as of April 2016:
Nathan Tysen ‘01 & Chris Miller ‘01 musical Tuck Everlasting was nominated for Outer Critics for Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Drama League for Outstanding Production of a Broadway Musical
Julianne Wick Davis ‘07 & Dan Collins ‘07 musical Southern Comfort (the Public) was nominated for a Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical.
Michael John LaChiusa (Faculty) musical First Daughter’s Suite (the Public) was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, as well as Outstanding Music & Lyrics
Open Arts
Peter Lucas was Creative Producer for the film Hooligan Sparrow, a documentary feature by NYU alumna Nanfu Wang. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is currently screening at festivals worldwide.
Sheldon Woodbury had three of his short stories published this Spring: "A Dream Come True" in Surreal Nightmares, "A Gift from the Stars" in Lovecraft After Dark, and "The Holy Ghost" in Ghosts Revenge.
Bayete Ross Smith was a featured author and collaborator for Question Bridge: Black Males in America, a book companion to the award-winning project that combines various media platforms, an interactive website and mobile app, as well as community roundtable conversations and a curriculum designed for high school learners.
Donna Cameron's collaborative multimedia art film Meditation for a Lonely Flute screened at the Wertheim Center in Miami for the 80th Birthday Celebration of the life and work of Fredrick Kaufman, founder of the Florida International University School of Music.
Stephen Michaels appeared as Dr. Wangel in the Prism Stage Company’s staged reading of Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea at the Abingdon Theatre.
CG Foisy was the composer and Associate Producer for the film Starring Austin Pendleton, which premiered with a special panel event at the Tribeca Film Festival in April.
Chitra Neogy will have her book Blood Words / A Warrior Walk published in May by International Publications Media Group.
Performance Studies
Alum, Kate Berlant stars in Episode 4 of the new Netflix Original Series, “The Characters.”
Masi Asare, PhD candidate, has been recognized as a woman theatre artist to watch in Playbill.
PhD Candidate Adrienne Edwards was named visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
MA Alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the 2016 PEN Literary Award for Emerging American Playwright.
Professor Malik Gaines’s project, “Clockshop,” has been funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Laura Zlatos, MA student, received her first Times review for her new play “Happily After Ever”.
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Graduate Film
Artistic Director Spike Lee received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2015 Governor’s Awards, featured at the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony
Alumnus László Nemes won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film and was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director for his film Son of Saul
Alumna Dee Rees won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series for Bessie
Weiner-Dog, a film written and directed by Professor Todd Solondz, premiered at Sundance and was bought by Amazon Studios
Equity, a film written by Grad Film Professor Amy Fox and DP’d by alumnus Eric Lin, premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and was picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics
Professor Kasi Lemmons served as the Artistic Director for the Sundance Institute 2016 January Screenwriter’s Lab
Complete Unknown, a film written and directed by alumnus Joshua Marston, premiered at Sundance and was bought by Amazon Studios
My Blind Brother, directed by alumna Sophie Goodhart, DP-d by alumnus Eric Lin, from her thesis short, premiered at SXSW and sold to STARZ Entertainment
Professor Spike Lee premiered a new documentary, Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, at Sundance and then aired it on Showtime
Touched With Fire, directed by alumnus Paul Dalio, produced by alumni Kristina Nikolova and Jason Sokoloff, premiered in theaters; Nikolova also served as the DP and Professor Spike Lee was the executive producer.
How to Tell You’re a Douchebag, a film produced by alumnus Martisse Hill and thesis student Julius Pryor IV premiered in Sundance’s NEXT category. It also screened in the New Voices in Black Cinema program at BAM.
Women Who Kill, written and directed by alumna Ingrid Jungermann, received the Best Screenplay Award at the Tribeca Film Festival; Jungermann has also signed on to adapt her web series “F to 7th” as a comedy series for Showtime
Hello, My Name is Doris opened in theaters. The film was co-written by alumna Laura Terruso and is based on a short film she wrote and directed while studying at Grad Film
Alumna Gabrielle Demeestere’s feature film Yosemite starring alumnus James Franco, opened in select theaters in New York and LA and was released on iTunes
Songs My Brothers Taught Me by alumna Chloé Zhao had a theatrical run at Film Forum in NYC
Alumna Pamela Romanowsky's feature film The Adderall Diaries opened in NYC theaters
Alum Perry Blackshear's thesis film They Look Like People got a digital and VOD release after its LA theatrical run
Dirt, a short film directed by alumnus Darius Clark Monroe, edited by alumnus Doug Lenox, and DP’d by alumnus Daniel Patterson, premiered in the U.S. Narrative Short Films Category at Sundance
Jungle, a short film directed by student Asantewaa Prempeh, produced by student Joyce Sherri, and DP’d by student Sheldon Chau, premiered in the U.S. Narrative Short Films Category at Sundance
Seide, a short film directed by student Elnura Osmonalieva, produced by alumna Charlotte Rabate, art directed by student Myrsini Aristidou, and DP’d by almuna Chananun Chotrungroj, premiered in the International Narrative Short Films Category at the Sundance Film Festival
Alumna Iquo Eissen's short film New York, I Love You screened in the New Voices in Black Cinema program at BAM.
Alumnus James Franco produced the film Goat, which premiered at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition
Alumna Laurie Collyer was nominated for a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series for The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Alumna Maryann Brandon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Editing for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tisch Asia alumnus Jordan Schiele’s feature film Dog Days, DP-d by alumnus Nathaniel Carton, had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival
War on Everyone, a film DP’d by alumnus Bobby Bukowski, premiered in the Narrative Spotlight section of SXSW
Tisch Asia Alumnus Han West produced Hard World for Small Things, which was in Sundance’s New Frontier: Virtual Reality Program and at the Tribeca Film Festival
Semele, a short film directed by student Myrsini Aristidou and produced by alumnus Reinaldo Marcus Green, was selected for Berlinale Generation 2016 and won the Generation Kplus International Jury Award for Best Short Film. It also was chosen to premiere in Tribeca's Learning Curve section at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tisch Asia alum Atsuko Hirayanagi was the winner of the Sundance Institute / NHK Award for her script Oh Lucy! at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Tisch Asia alumnus Rene Pannevis’ short film Jacked had its international premiere at the Berlinale
A Quiet Place, a short film directed by alumnus Ronny Doerfler, screened at the Berlinale
Tisch Asia alumna Alle Hsu's second year film Sophie had its international premiere at the Foyle Film Festival and won the Light in Motion Awards for Best Short Film, and at the Bahamas International Film Festival in the Short Film Competition
Alumna Sasie Sealy was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs for Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, "Gortimer and the Vengeful Violinist"
Student Lilian Mehrel's virtual reality film haunt premiered in Tribeca's Interactive Playground at the Tribeca Film Festival
The film From Nowhere premiered in the Narrative Spotlight category at SXSW. Three students worked on the film: Annie Kaempfer was the first assistant director, Joanne Mony Park was the second assistant camera, and Ruthie Marantz was the line producer.
Student Frances Bodomo was one of the writers/directors of collective:unconscious, which premiered in the Narrative Feature Competition at SXSW
The pilot of alumni Sarah-Violet Bliss' and Charles Rogers' show Search Party debuted in the Episodic category at SXSW
Alumna Nisha Ganatra directed the pilot of You Me Her, which premiered in the Episodic category at SXSW
Professor Spike Lee’s film Chi-Raq was released on Amazon Prime
Student Sheldon Chau was featured in Filmmaker Magazine on the process of shooting the short film Jungle
Professor Kasi Lemmons was one of five female directors who partnered with Indigenous Media to create an incubator called "Made by Women." The program will pair new female writers and directors with mentors like Professor Lemmons.
PBS did a feature on alumnus Yared Zeleke’s film Lamb
Professor Spike Lee's new short, 2 Fists Up, was selected to premiere in the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival: Sports Shorts section at the Tribeca Film Festival
Alumnus Ben Goldstein's new feature documentary Jack London: American Original, screened at NYU
Professor Ian Harnarine was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media in an Original Daytime Program or Series for his video "The Amazing Song" that he directed for Sesame Street's Autism Initiative
Alumnus Reinaldo Marcus Green's critically acclaimed short film STOP was been nominated for a Webby Award for Best Drama Individual Short or Episode. He was also selected to participate in Berlinale Talents 2016
Thesis student Shawn Snyder was the recipient of this year's Sloan Tribeca grant for his screenplay To Dust
Alumnus Michael D. Ratner's film Gonzo @ Derby screened in the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival: Sports Shorts section. The film was produced by alumnus Eric Cohen, edited and associated produced by thesis student Ashish Ravinran
Alumnus Malcolm D. Lee’s film Barbershop: The Next Cut opened in theaters
Students Elnura Osmonalieva, Cenk Erturk, Myrsini Aristidou, Germain Gulick, and Elizabeth Nichols, were Graduate King Award winners at the 2016 Wasserman Awards, First Run Film Festival
Tisch Asia alumnus Nathanael Carton, student Carlos Miller, and Tisch Asia alumnus Quester Hannah are the 2016 Richard Vague Production Fund recipients
Alumni Kiara C. Jones, Jessica dela Merced, and Cenk Erturk are the 2016 Purple List Winners
Alumna Kat Westergaard DP’d the film Lovesong which premiered at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition
Cinema Studies
PhD candidate Neta Alexander won first place in this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies student essay prize competition for her essay, “Rage Against the Machine: Buffering, Noise, and ‘Perpetual Anxiety’ in the Age of Connected Viewing.”
MIAP students Rob Anen and Ina Archer presented their work on Fox Movietone News outtakes from 1928 at the annual Orphans Film Symposium this April.
MIAP student Eddy Colloton has been named a 2016-2017 National Digital Stewardship Residency with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
PhD candidate Zoe Graham has been awarded a 2016-2017 Doctoral Student Research Fellowship from the NYU Center for the Humanities.
MA student Meng Guo screened two of her short films: Back to the Roaring Twenties was featured in the Newfilmmakers New York Film Festival, and A Normal Man was screened at the Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival.
MIAP student Luke Moses, President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Student Chapter at NYU, received a 2016 President’s Service Award for his outstanding leadership in organizing and contributing to audiovisual archiving events for the NYU and NYC community.
Amalia Cordova (PhD 2015) received the Mellon Diversity Postdoc at the NYU Center for the Humanities.
Keith Corson (PhD 2012) published Trying to Get Over: African American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977-1986 from the University of Texas Press.
Sandra Gibson (MIAP 2010) showed her work with Luis Recorder in a solo exhibition at Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles.
Michael Gillespie (PhD 2007) published Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film from the Duke University Press.
Elena Gorfinkel (PhD 2008) has been appointed to a lecturer position at King’s College London.
Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (MIAP 2015) has been named a 2016-2017 National Digital Stewardship Residency with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Carla Marcantonio (PhD 2007) published Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film with Palgrave Macmillan.
Meenasarani Linde Murugan (MA 2009) has been appointed to a tenure-track position at Fordham University.
Shira Peltzman (MIAP 2013) published an article entitled, Expanding NDSA Levels of Preservation, on the Library of Congress' digital preservation blog, The Signal.
Professor Antonia Lant gave a series of invited seminars at the Department of Cinema, Photography and Television, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Rome.
Assistant Professor Toby Lee won the NYU Center for the Humanities 2015-2016 Faculty Research Fellowship. Additionally, her essay, “Being There, Taking Place: Ethnography at the Film Festival,” appeared in Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice, Marijke de Valck, Brendan Kredell and Skadi Loist, eds.
Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
Quester Hannah (Tisch Asia) won a 2016 Richard Vague Film Production Fund Deans’ Award of $35,000 for the documentary NEVER GIVE UP NEVER KEEP SILENT.
Nathanael Carton (Graduate Film Tisch Asia) won a $50,000 Richard Vague Film Production Fund Award for FRUITS OF LABOR.
Virginia Mohler (UGFTV) won a $50,000 Richard Vague Film Production Fund Awar for RADIUM GIRLS
Carlos Miller (Graduate Film NY) won a $50,000 Richard Vague Film Production Fund Awar for BETWEEN SINS.
Jianjie Lin won Tisch Asia, Graduate Film 1st Prize of $10,000 for GU
Robbin Rae McCulloch won Tisch Asia, Graduate Film 2nd Prize of $7,500 for OAKLAND IN BLUE
Imran J. Khan won Tisch Asia, Graduate Film 3rd Prize of $5,000 for PROM
Elnura Osmonalieva won 1st prize of $10,000 for SEIDE at the Graduate Film King Awards
Cenk Erturk won 1st prize of $7,500 for A LONG DAY at the Graduate Film King Awards
Myrsini Aristidou won 3rd prize of $5,000 for SEMELE at the Graduate Film King Awards
Zuxiang Zhao won 1st Prize of $10,000 for A TEST at the Undergraduate Film & TV King Awards
Alejandra Parody won 2nd Prize of $7,500 for ROSA at the Undergraduate Film & TV King Awards
Tristan Daley won 3rd Prize of $5000 for DEBT TO SOCIETY at the Undergraduate Film & TV King Awards
Germain Gulick won a $2,500 King Screenwriting Award for TRIFLES
Elizabeth Nichols won a $2,000 Wasserman Directing Award for BLUEPRINT
Matthew Puccini won a $2,500 King Screenwriting Award for SOLO
Zuxiang Zhao won a $2,000 Wasserman Directing Award for A TEST
Undergraduate Film & TV
John Canemaker curated an exhibit titled "Wish Upon a Star: The Art of Pinocchio" for the Walt Disney Family Museum.
Black Card, directed by Pete Chatmon and produced by Christina DeHaven, premiered on HBO in February.
Alice Elliott's production company, Welcome Change Productions, will receive the Media Excellence Award from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in June 2016.
Lewis Erskine was an editor on episode one of Jackie Robinson, which aired on PBS in April.
Janet Grillo's feature film Jack of the Red Hearts aired on Lifetime on April 23rd. The film will also screen in emerging nations as part of the US State Department's American Film Screening project.
John Gurrin wrote a chapter for the book Think/Point/Shoot: Media Ethics, Technology and Global Change.
Rick Litvin was named to the Advisory Council of the board at the Institute of Play for his educational initiatives that involve developing curriculums and expanding opportunities for public high school students in NYC.
Antonio Monda's latest novel, L'indegno, was published by Mondadori in March.
Joe Pichirallo executive produced an ABC miniseries on Bernie Madoff, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. Madoff premiered in February. Isabella Wing-Davey won the Audience Choice Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for The Rain Collector
Christina Jean Benenati won the Animation Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Otter of the Underground.
Serena Dykman won the Doc-In-The-Works Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Nana
Alik Barsoumian won the Graduate Feature Screenplay Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Antouni (Homeless)
Thati Peele won the Movado Exceptional Artist Award for Graduate Film & Canon Filmmaker Award for Graduate Film at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Lerato (Cinematography by Chananun Chotrungroj)
Jennifer Rudin won the Graduate Half Hour Pilot Script Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Starring Chloe Fisher
Danielle Kampf won the Sight & Sound Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Paper
Sandra (Min Wan) Tan won the Movado Exceptional Artist Award for Undergraduate Film & Canon Filmmaker Award for Undergraduate Film at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Fishbone (Cinematography by Daisy Zhou)
Madelyn Miller won the Undergraduate Half Hour Pilot Screenplay Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Right Wing Woman
Jennifer Helen Coates won the Undergraduate Hour Pilot Screenplay Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Wasteland
Suzanne Egan won the Undergraduate Feature Screenplay Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for The Firebird.
Marie Constantinesco won the Web Series Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for My Life in Sourdough.
Rose Loprinzo won the Rising Star Award at the 2016 Fusion Film Festival for Bonedigger
Vera Berkshire (UGFTV, 2016) won the 24th annual Richard Protovin Animation Award for her film Dragons in Distress.
Ahad Mahmood (UGFTV, 2016) was nominated for a Student Emmy in the commercial category.
I Know No Country, directed by Antonio Salume won the Spring 2016 Sight & Sound Showcase for a documentary
Homme, directed by Ben Elias won the Spring 2016 Sight & Sound Showcase for filmmaking
The Telemarketer, directed by Taylor Schafer won the Spring 2016 Sight & Sound Showcase for studio
A Test by Zuxiang (Matthew) Zhao won first prize at the Wasserman Awards at the First Run Film Festival.
Rosa by Alejandra Parody won second prize at the Wasserman Awards at the First Run Film Festival.
Debt to Society by Tristan Daley won third prize at the Wasserman Awards at the First Run Film Festival.
Kevin Bailey was a Wasserman Finalist at the First Run Film Festival for the film Father’s Son
Isabelle Gedigk was a Wasserman Finalist at the First Run Film Festival for the film Disconnect
Chriz Naing was a Wasserman Finalist at the First Run Film Festival for the film Zayar
Matthew Puccini was a Wasserman Finalist at the First Run Film Festival for the film Solo
YiYi Han received a Faculty Commendation in Directing at the First Run Film Festival for the film Something About Wonder
Tanner Jarman received a Faculty Commendation in Directing at the First Run Film Festival for the film High Hoops
Adam Meeks received a Faculty Commendation in Directing at the First Run Film Festival for the film Wildfire
Chriz Naing received a Faculty Commendation in Editing at the First Run Film Festival for the films Mutt, Zayar (directed by Chloé Aktas)
Leo Purman received a Faculty Commendation in Cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film Jahar (directed by Henry Hayes)
Hamilton Yu received a Faculty Commendation in Cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film Rosa (directed by Alejandra Parody)
Henry Zaballos received a Faculty Commendation in Cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film BOOYAKA!! (directed by Chris Santiago)
Bobb Barito received a Faculty Commendation in Sound Design at the First Run Film Festival for the film ENTROPIC, WILDFIRE, DEBT TO SOCIETY (directed by Sebastian Savino, Daniel Stenzel, Tristan Daley)
Dennis Hu received a Faculty Commendation in Sound Design at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOMETHING ABOUT WONDER, DISCONNECT (directed by YiYi Han, Isabelle Gedigk)
Arina Bleiman received the Nestor Almendros Award in recognition of outstanding cinematography by a woman for the films ZAYAR, DEBT TO SOCIETY (directed by Chriz Naing, Tristan Daley)
Sebastian Sdaigui received the Carl Lerner Award for Social Significance for the film RAGHEAD
Renee Mao was recognized for Achievement in Experimental at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHERE PEOPLE HIDE AWAY
Cyrus Cumming was recognized for Achievement in Animation for the film THE GREEN MONSTER
Renee Mao was recognized for cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film Solo (directed by Matthew Puccini)
Conor Murphy was recognized for cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film RAGHEAD (directed by Sebastian Sdaigui)
Daniel Stenzel was recognized for cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film WILDFIRE (directed by Adam Meeks)
Jinwei Zeng was recognized for cinematography at the First Run Film Festival for the film A TEST (directed by Zuxiang Zhao)
Kevin Bailey was recognized for editing at the First Run Film Festival for the film FATHER’S SON
Henry Hayes was recognized for editing at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOLO (directed by Matthew Puccini)
Tanner Jarman was recognized for editing at the First Run Film Festival for the film HIGH HOOPS
Matthew Puccini was recognized for editing at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHERE PEOPLE HIDE AWAY (directed by Renee Mao)
YiYi Han was recognized for screenwriting at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOMETHING ABOUT WONDER
Johnny Levin & Tom Mishra were recognized for screenwriting at the First Run Film Festival for the film THE INTERVENTION
Daniel Sorochkin was recognized for screenwriting at the First Run Film Festival for the film CHECK PLEASE
Lily Van Leeuwen & Jen Hubbard were recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film ZAYAR (directed by Chriz Naing)
Elizabeth PW & Janella Lacson were recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film ROSA (directed by Alejandra Parody)
Zachary Nutman was recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOLO (directed by Matthew Puccini)
Lizzie Shapiro was recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film JAHAR (directed by Henry Hayes)
Lizzie Shapiro was recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film RAGHEAD (directed by Sebastian Sdaigui)
Yifei He, Peichao Wang, and Zuxiang Zhao were recognized for producing at the First Run Film Festival for the film A TEST
Bobb Barito was recognized for sound design at the First Run Film Festival for the film SNAGGLETOOTH (directed by Spencer Jezewski)
Katherine Jirles was recognized for sound design at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHO’S AFRAID OF THE OCTOPUS MAN? (directed by Ben Sottak)
Sean Kiely was recognized for sound design at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHERE PEOPLE HIDE AWAY (directed by Renee Mao)
Christina Benenati was recognized for production design at the First Run Film Festival for the film OTTER OF THE UNDERGROUND
Emma Carlson was recognized for production design at the First Run Film Festival for the film DOMINIK THE DARING AND BRONCO THE BRAVE (directed by Andrew Scott)
Courtney Porter was recognized for production design at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHO’S AFRAID OF THE OCTOPUS MAN? (directed by Ben Sottak)
Noah Engel was recognized for original score at the First Run Film Festival for the film FATHER’S SON (directed by Kevin Bailey)
Jose Alejandro Parody was recognized for original score at the First Run Film Festival for the film ROSA (directed by Alejandra Parody)
Eric Phillips was recognized for original score at the First Run Film Festival for the film BOOYAKA!! (directed by Chris Santiago)
Amia Datts was recognized for supporting actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film IRON PLAY (directed by Jasmine McLaurin)
Jennifer Ferrin was recognized for supporting actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film MUTT (directed by Chloé Aktas)
Barbara Rosenblat was recognized for supporting actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film STRANDED AT THE ALTAR (directed by Ryan McCabe)
Leila Rusciani was recognized for supporting actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film RAGHEAD (directed by Sebastian Sdaigui)
Sophia Zalipsky was recognized for supporting actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film WILDFIRE (directed by Adam Meeks)
Joosje Duk was recognized for lead actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film WILDFIRE (directed by Adam Meeks)
Aracely Guzman was recognized for lead actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film ROSA (directed by Alejandra Parody)
Rebecca Kiembock was recognized for lead actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOMETHING ABOUT WONDER (directed by YiYi Han)
Demi Mills was recognized for lead actress at the First Run Film Festival for the film DOMINIK THE DARING AND BRONCO THE BRAVE (directed by Andrew Scott
William Beckwith was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHERE PEOPLE HIDE AWAY (directed by Renee Mao)
Finn Cutler was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHO’S AFRAID OF THE OCTOPUS MAN? (directed by Ben Sottak)
Roger Grundwald was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film ONE GOOD PITCH (directed by Parker Hill)
Hany Kamal was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film LITTLE SYRIA (directed by Francisco Sanchez Solis)
Matthew Mindler was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOLO (directed by Matthew Puccini)
Rich Nair was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film DEBT TO SOCIETY (directed by Tristan Daley)
Andre Ozim was recognized for supporting actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film JAHAR (directed by Henry Hayes)
Mischa Aletta was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film FATHER’S SON (directed by Kevin Bailey)
Kalil Hamadoui was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film RAGHEAD (directed by Sebastian Sdaigui)
Devante Lawrence was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film JAHAR (directed by Henry Hayes)
Yixiang Li was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film A TEST (directed by Zuxiang Zhao )
Tommy Nelson was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film SOLO (directed by Matthew Puccini)
Christin Ryan was recognized for lead actor at the First Run Film Festival for the film WHO’S AFRAID OF THE OCTOPUS MAN? (directed by Ben Sottak)
Misha Green (UGFTV, 2006) co-created WGN America's Underground, which was recently renewed for a second season.
Tahir Jetter (UGFTV, 2010) wrote and directed How To Tell You're A Douchebag, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Felix Thompson (UGFTV, 2009) won the Someone to Watch award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards for his film King Jack.
Melina Matsoukas (UGFTV, 2003) directed part of Beyonce's visual album, Lemonade. Matsoukas also directed the music video for the song Formation.
Reed Morano (UGFTV, 2001) was one of the cinematographers for Beyonce's visual album, Lemonade. Morano was also the cinematographer for five episodes of HBO's Vinyl.
Virginia Mohler (UGFTV, 2011) was awarded $50,000 from the 2016 Richard Vague Production Fund for her film Radium Girls.
The Ticket, directed by Ido Fluk (UGFTV, 2005), written by Ido Fluk (UGFTV, 2005) and Sharon Mashihi (UGFTV, 2005) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Live Cargo and Women Who Kill, co-produced by Lauren Brady (UGFTV, 2011 )was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Steph Ching (UGFTV, 2010) and Ellen Martinez's (UGFTV, 2010) documentary After Spring, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Jon Stewart served as an executive producer on the documentary. After Spring was awarded $25,000 from the 2015 Richard Vague Production Fund.
14 Minutes from Earth, co-directed, co-written, and co-produced by Adam "Tex" Davis (UGFTV 1993) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
One Good Pitch, directed by Parker Hill (UGFTV), written by Parker Hill (UGFTV) and Evan Ari Kelman (UGFTV, 2015), produced by Evan Ari Kelman (UGFTV, 2015) and Jacob Baker (UGFTV, 2016), cinematographer Maria Rusche (UGFTV, 2014), executive produced by Andrew Corkin (UGFTV, 2008) and Bryan Reisberg (UGFTV, 2009) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Jahar, directed and co-written by Henry Hayes (UGFTV), produced by Lizzie Shapiro (UGFTV), production, design by Rachel Zabala (UGFTV, 2015) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
You Can Go, directed and produced by Christine Turner (UGFTV, 2004), produced by Kyle Martin (UGFTV, 2007), cinematographer Marshall Stief (UGFTV, 2004)
Wannabe, directed and written by Matthew Manson (UGFTV, Spring 2004) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, co-written by Robbie Pickering (UGFTV, 2002) was an opening film at the Tribeca Film Festival
A Kind of Murder - co-produced by Ted Hope (UGFTV, 1985) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Pistol Shrimps, produced by Morgan Spurlock (UGFTV, 1994) and starring Aubrey Plaza (UGFTV, 2005) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Wolves, directed,written, and co-produced by Bart Freundlich (UGFTV and Cinema Studies, 1992), production design by Elizabeth Jones (UGFTV, 2003), was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Holidays, co-directed and co-written by Scott Stewart (UGFTV, 1991) was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
Emerging Media
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
VH1’s TV movie “The Breaks,” based on Dan Charnas book The Big Payback, aired to critical acclaim and was picked up as a series, of which Dan is the Executive Producer.
Dan Charnas writes and releases new book, Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-en-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind
“What Happened, Miss Simone” produced by Jayson Jackson received the Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature
Bob Power Remastered A Tribe Called Quest 25th Anniversary Edition LP1, recorded/mixed Jason Moran for Blue Note Records (Grammy nominee), recorded/mixed Marcus Strickland for Blue Note Records, new mix/master of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” for Bobby McFerrin, mixed/mastered Pharrell Williams TCQ remix, mixed De La Soul 2016 release including David Byrne, Usher. He also gave lectures/interviews for Red Bull, Native Instruments, Electronic Musician, The New York Times, ASCAP magazine, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Jeff Rabhan discussed streaming as a special guest on CNBC.
Mike Errico had music placements in dozens of TV shows, including the season finale of "Shameless" on Showtime, starring William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum. He also wrote featured articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Observer, and more!
Tony Visconti was one of the featured keynote speakers, as well as Jeff Peretz, Dan Charnas, Errol Kolosine, and Hank Shocklee all spoke on panels at SXSW.
Alum Frankie Celenza, creator and star of his own show Frankie Cooks, won an Emmy for Outstanding On-Camera Talent, the show won an Emmy for Best lifestyle Series, and alum Eren Cannata was part of the team who won Outstanding Musical Composition for Frankie Cooks season 3.
Alum Phoebe Ryan opened for Charlie Puth on tour.
Mason Jar Music (alums Jonathan Seale & Dan Knobler) hosted its inaugural multi-media arts festival, The Long Arc Festival, hosted by National Sawdust.
Episode (featuring alum Daniel Lonner) had an exclusive in Billboard.
Alum Tolu Adeyemo’s song "No Running From Me" was featured on CBS's “The Good Wife.”
Cafuné’s (Sedona Schat and Noah Yoo) Lay Low was featured on Spotify’s #viral50 chart.
Fletcher (Cari Fletcher) was mentioned as an artist to watch by Billboard, Idolator, Spotify, and Teen Vogue (to name a few) and talked to Glamour about plans for 2016.
Noah Davis (Field Trip), Jake Tavill, and Tor Miller all performed at SXSW.
ITP
Clay Shirky (ITP, GSAS/Journalism, NYU Shanghai) publishes “Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi and the Chinese Dream” published by Columbia Global Reports (2015)
ITP alum Andrew Schnedier nominated for a Drama Desk Award 2016 / Unique Theatrical Experience for his show YOUARENOWHERE
ITP and Tandon full-time faculty member R. Luke DuBois presented a TED Talk on “Insightful Human Portraits Made from Data” on Feb. 17, 2016 as part of the “Code Power” discussion at TED2016 in Vancouver, Canada
ITP students Gene Han, Marc Abbey, David Cihelna and Abhishek Singh are winners of the Verizon Open Innovation Challenge at the NYC Media Lab -- for the project, Surround, which enables creators and brands to engage with their audiences in live 360 video streams.
Water Canary, a project created by ITP Alumnus Sonaar Luthra, was featured in the White House Water Summit announcement for World Water Day
ITP alums Milena Berry (Power to Fly) and Alex Kaufmann (Google) are named part of the “most creative people in business ” by Fast Company
ITP and ITP Shanghai Associate Arts Professor Marianne Petit is awarded NYU Distinguished Teaching Award
ITP Wins NYU President’s Service Award for “Sustainable ITP” which is made up of ITP Alumnus John Farrell, Faculty advisor Marina Zurkow and ITP students Oryan Inbar, Viniyata Pany, Kat Sullivan
NYU Game Center
Game Center/Incubator alum Gabe Cuzzillo nominated for the Independent Game Festival Best Student Game award with Ape Out.
Game Center Incubator participant Kenny Sun nominated for the Independent Game Festival Best Student Game award with Circa Infinity.
Game Center alum Alec Thomson and current BFA Jenny Jiao Hsia won for the Independent Game Festival Best Student Game award with Beglitched.
The New York State Digital Gaming Hub designation was officially awarded and started with the Spring semester of 2016. The designation comes with a $450,000 grant dispensed over 3 years.
Faculty Clara Fernandez-Vara, in collaboration with Tandon School of Engineering’s Integrated Digital Media department and Interactive Media Arts in NYU Shanghai, received a Global Seed Grant.
Faculty Matt Parker received a Dean’s Grant for his multimedia project, Lumarca, in celebration of Tisch 50th.
Game Center alum Toni Pizza co-chaired IndieCade East 2016, the International Festival of Independent Games for the east coast.
Game Center and Incubator alum Zeke Virant releases his game, Soft Body, for Playstation 4.
Game Center and Incubator alumni Misha Favorov, Sigursteinn Gunnarsson, Josh Raab, along with Games for Learning in Steinhardt alum Geoffrey Suthers raises $13,000 (and climbing!) on Kickstarter for their game, Sumer.
Game Center alum Winnie Song, adjunct faculty Robert Yang, and faculty Naomi Clark were all invited to speak at Berlin’s A MAZE Independent Games festival.
Faculty Eric Zimmerman successfully kickstarted Losswords, his newest project with his team at Local No. 12.
Faculty Eric Zimmerman and his wife Nathalie Pozzi created a well-reviewed, interactive installation, Waiting Rooms, at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Photography & Imaging
Deb Willis received the Distinguished Africanist Award – New York African Studies Association 2016 Celebration of Black Writing Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Visual Literacy – Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia
Deb Willis participated in The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel Residency Program
Lorie Novak received a $2750 Dean’s Grant for Migraine Register project
Editha Mesina received a $1,000 Dean’s Faculty Grant, Fall 2015 for Collaborative Exhibition Exchange
Caitlin Berrigan received a $25,000 Two-year artist fellowship from the Akademie der Schloss Solitude
Caitlin Berrigan received a $3,000 Dean's Faculty Grant for Treatise on Imaginary Explosions print edition residency with a master printer at the Wassaic Project for the Fall, worth $5,000 in-kind
Paul Owen received a $1,110 Dean's Faculty Grant for Noche de Muertos – A STATIONARY PARADE
Shelley Rice received a Global Research Grant for Fall 2017 for research in Europe, based at NYU Paris, for one to three months in the fall of 2017.
Ariel Goldberg received $983.56 from this year's Adjunct Faculty Development Grant in support of travel, lodging and production materials in order to give an artist talk at The Range in Saguache, CO.
Wafaa Bilal completed an Artpace Summer 2015 International Artist-in-Residence Program from May 18th – July 20th, 2015, further developing Canto III series and premiered a new installation titled The Things I Could Tell….
Wafaa Bilal completed a Civitella Renieri Fellowship from September 25th - November 5th, 2015, focusing on research and writing for the forthcoming book on dynamic encounters titled Encounters: A Critical History.