Highlights: Spring 2021

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Congratulations to the students, alumni, faculty, and staff who achieved so much and recieved awards and honors during the Spring 2021 semester! Despite unpreceded times, we continued to create. Take a look at everything the Tisch Community has accomplished!

INSTITUTE OF PERFORMING ARTS:

ART & PUBLIC POLICY

Hentyle Yapp, Art & Public Policy Professor, released a new book, Saturation: Race Art, and the Circulation of Value

Dr. Ella Shohat, Art & Public Policy Professor, was nominated and awarded a prestigious Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

Grace Aneiza Ali, Art & Public Policy Professor, released a new book entitled Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

Liminal Spaces
Liminal Spaces

Pato Hebert, Professor of Art & Public Policy, had his photo series featured at the Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium in Athens

Asmaa Walton '18 (Art & Public Policy) launched the Black Art Library at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Kathy Engel, Professor of Art & Public Policy, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her recent collection of poems, The Lost Brother Alphabet

Kyle Abraham in his Brooklyn apartment, courtesy of the New York Times
Kyle Abraham in his Brooklyn apartment, courtesy of the New York Times

DANCE

Kyle Abraham '06 (MFA, Dance) was featured in the New York Times for his play The Runaways

Rohan Bhargava '15 (BFA, Dance), Rebecca Margolick '12 (BFA, Dance), and Aaron Samuel Davis '18 (MFA, Dance) were named three of the twenty-five dancers to watch by Dance Magazine

Pato Hebert, Art & Public Policy Professor was featured in the LA Times for COVID 'Long Hauler' advocay

GRADUATE ACTING

Sterling K. Brown '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2021 SAG Award for This is Us

Aunjanue Ellis '95 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2021 SAG Award for Lovecraft Country

Grace Porter '19 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the season 2 of the hit Epix TV show, Godfather of Harlem

Daniel Dae Kim '96 (MFA, Graduate Acting) joined the star studded cast of Stowaway

Rainn Wilson ‘89 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the dark comedy fiction podcast series, Dark Air With Terry Carnation

Crystal Lucas-Perry ‘13 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was featured in a recent episode of the hit NBC TV show, Law & Order: SVU

Julia Solomonoff was announced as the incoming chair of the Graduate Film Department

Janet Zarish
Janet Zarish

Janet Zarish, Graduate Acting's Interim Chair, received NYU's 2020 - 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award

Arlo Hill '18 (MFA, Graduate Acting) CEO of SecondBody, was featured in Forbes magazine

Camila Moreno ‘19 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the CW pilot, Naomi

Meredith Garretson '17 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in season 2 of Resident Alien on SYFY

Carl Cofield was named Chair of the Graduate Acting department

Larry Maslon, Associate Chair of Graduate Acting, was interviewed by NY1's Frank DiLella

Simone Recasner ‘17 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the upcoming television series, The Big Leap

Nikiya Mathis ‘08 (MFA, Graduate Acting), appeared in Season 4 of the hit tv series Snowfall on FX

Performance Studies

Anh Vo '19 (M.A., Performance Studies) premiered BABYLIFT at the Target Margin Theater

Daniel Sander '20 (Ph.D., Performance Studies) was a Curator-Mentor for Allie/A.L. Rickard's exhibition, Even there, there are stars, at CUE Art Foundation

Gabaccia Moreno '13 (M.A., Performance Studies) was featured in the SHE EXPLORES new mini-series See Us Outside

Ricardo Montez '07 (Ph.D., Performance Studies) published his book, Keith Haring Haring's Line: Race and the Performance of Desire

Cynthia Oliver '03 (PhD, Performance Studies) was selected as a 2021 USA Fellow

Diana Taylor, Performance Studies Professor, launched her new book, ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence

Sol Cabrini's Experimental Mixtape, Vivid Image
Sol Cabrini's Experimental Mixtape, Vivid Image

Sol Cabrini  '20 (B.A., Performance Studies) premiered her third experimental mixtape, Vivid Image

Ph.D. Candidate Cy Delgado (Performance Studies) was awarded a GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation titled, "Staging the Interstice: Countercartographies of Trans- Performance in Contemporary Mexico City"

Marc Arthur ‘19 (PhD, Performance Studies) published an essay in Theatre Journal, "Nostalgia and Chronicity: Two Temporalities in the Restaging of AIDS"

Tracie Morris '02/'06 (MA/PhD, Performance Studies) was named a Guggenheim Fellow

Rebecca Schneider '90/'96 (MA/PhD, Performance Studies) was named a Guggenheim Fellow

B.A. Candidate Stachy Saint-Gerard (Performance Studies) co-produced the Sativa Sessions

Chaski No '20 (BA, Performance Studies) and Sol Cabrini '20 (BA, Performance Studies) joined Professor Fred Moten in Romi Crawford's new book titled, Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect

André Lepecki, Performance Studies Professor and Chairperson, published his article, "The Dramaturg's Work" on Sound, Stage, Screen

Diana Taylor, Performance Studies Professor, was conferred The Edwin Booth Award from CUNY Grad Center’s Theatre and Performance Department

M.A. Candidate Allen Baylosis (Performance Studies) presented his performance piece Singaw at UCLA’s QGrad: Queer Graduate Conference

Alexandra Vazquez, Performance Studies Associate Professor, was named the 2020/2021 David Payne-Carter award winner

M.A. candidate Allen Baylosis (Performance Studies) was awarded a C.V. Starr A/P/A Student Research/Conference grant to present his paper "‘Sagot’: On Space, Medium, and Aesthetics"

Drama

Bryce Dallas Howard and Nia Farrell (Drama), along with Rachel Friedman, Head of Tisch Drama's Career Development & Alumni Engagement Office, presented at the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival about the Drama department’s collaboration with Nine Muses Entertainment 

Molly Beth Thomas '21 (BFA, Drama) was a cast member of CODA, which won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival 

Chad Beguelin '91 (BFA, Drama)/ '92 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for The Prom

Max Jenkins '07 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2021 SAG Award for Dead to Me

Jeanette Yew
Jeanette Yew

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Assistant Arts Professor in the Drama Department, was awarded the 2020 Design Achievement Award for her design work in the opera Sweet Land by Live Design magazine

Michael Schaefer '82 (BFA, Drama) and Steven Schneider '02 MA/'04 PhD (Cinema Studies) were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for His House

Tanya Barfield '92 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mrs. America – “Shirley”

Stacey Amma Osei-Kuffor ‘09 (BFA, Drama) was signed on to write the new Blade reboot for Disney / Marvel—the first black woman to write a Marvel movie

Joshua Bachove '06 (BFA, Drama) won a Golden Globe for Minari

Douglas Urbanski '79 (Drama) was nominated for a PGA Award for Mank

Lady Gaga (Drama) won a Grammy Award for Rain On Me

Lauren Patten (Drama) was the principal soloist on the album, Jagged Little Pill, which won a Grammy Award

Brittany Balbo ‘01 (BFA, Drama) was listed on the 29th Annual Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 list

GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING

Charles Vincent Burwell (Cycle 20, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) and James D. Sasser (Cycle 20, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) received a virtual developmental production of their new musical, Le Comte Noir, by The Manhattan School of Music Musical Theatre Department

Gabrielle Mirabella and Ernie Bird (both Cycle 29, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) featured their new 10-minute musical, RISE, in Theatre Now's annual “Sound Bites 7.0” showcase

Marcus Scott (Cycle 22, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was chosen to be a part of the 19th Annual Downtown Urban Arts Festival

Lily Dwoskin (Cycle 26) and Casey O'Neil (Cycle 24) streamed performances of their new musical THE AVIATRIX on Vimeo

Second-year students of Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program collaborated on Village Song with the Rattlesnake Theatre

Michael Cooper (Cycle 13) released the cast album for his new musical MARGUERITE

Emily Chiu (Cycle 26) and Molly Reisman (Cycle 27) had their new musical KEATON AND THE WHALE workshopped at Ghostlight Theatre Camp

PROGRAM ALUMS (RIGHT TO LEFT): JOSH BEN-AMI & JAMES SALEM (CYCLE 29), CAITLIN THOMAS (CYCLE 31), AND JOSHUA VRANAS (CYCLE 30)
PROGRAM ALUMS (RIGHT TO LEFT): JOSH BEN-AMI & JAMES SALEM (CYCLE 29), CAITLIN THOMAS (CYCLE 31), AND JOSHUA VRANAS (CYCLE 30)

Josh Ben-Ami (Cycle 29), James Salem (Cycle 29), Caitlin Thomas (Cycle 31), and Josh Vranas (Cycle 30) were nominated for the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards in the Musical Theatre Emerging Division

Anna K. Jacobs (Cycle 17) had her work featured in A LITTLE NEW MUSIC

Sara Cooper (Cycle 18), Adjunct Professor in GMTWP, presented part of her new musical, SUNSHINE AND THE GHOST GIRLS, in the 5 New Musicals X 15 Minutes Presentation

Marjorie Duffield (Cycle 10) and Helen Park (Cycle 22) wrote the songs for the film, Over The Moon, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award

Current students Clare Bierman & Erika Ji (both Cycle 30) and alums Zonia Tsang (Cycle 25) and Erin Reifler (Cycle 28) were selected as finalists for the 2021 NMI New Voices Project

Bomi Lee (Cycle 18) released her new album, Famous, on Apple Music

Ben Bonnema & Arianna Rose (both Cycle 21) had their new musical LOST GIRL presented in the 2021 JETFEST

Becca Blackmore, Dan Marshall, and Julian Blackmore (all Cycle 19) presented their new musical QUIZ BOWL virtually with NYFA

Paulo K Tiról (GMTW) had his work featured in New York Theatre Barn's New Work Series

Samatha Chanse (Cycle 23) was commissioned to write a new monologue by the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO)

Ryan Scott Oliver (Cycle 16) released an album of his popular song cycle, 35 MM IN FOCUS: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION

EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn (both Cycle 19) were the recipients of the coveted Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre

Students Vaibu Mohan and Raiah Rofsky (both Cycle 31) presented their song cycle NAYIKA at the Festival of New American Theatre

Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper

Students Eliza Randall and Samuel Norman (Cycle 30), had the virtual premiere of their 20-minute musical adaptation of THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, produced by HARP Theatricals

Sebastian Fabál (Cycle 18) was named the new Executive Director of the Underscore Theatre Company

Michael R. Jackson (Cycle 14) was named one of the recipients of this year's coveted Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama

Lauren Taslitz & Danny Ursetti (both Cycle 26) had their new musical MIMOSA featured as part of New York Theatre Barn's virtual New Work Series

Joe Iconis (Cycle 14) streamed a performance of his songs 

Angelica Chéri (Cycle 24) streamed her new play BERTA, BERTA at Everyman Theatre

Deborah Wicks LaPuma (Cycle 5) released the cast album of her new musical DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS!

Brandy Hoang Collier & Sean Eads (both Cycle 29) streamed their new musical BLAZING NEW WORLD at the University of the Arts

Daniel Messé (Cycle 5) and Nathan Tysen (Cycle 10) opened their new musical, AMELIE, at London's West End

Joe Iconis (Cycle 14) opened BE MORE CHILL at London's Shaftesbury Theatre 

Fred Carl (Cycle 4) and Robert Lee (Cycle 6), both full-time faculty members of GMTW, joined an online conversation with Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network

Timothy Huang (Cycle 11), EllaRose Chary (Cycle 19), Ty Defoe, Marcus Scott, Claire Tran (all Cycle 22), AriDy Nox (Cycle 27), and Andi Lee Carter (Cycle 28) had their work presented as a part of Prospect Theater Company's TREE TALES, an interactive, outdoor arts experience

Rogelio Martinez
Rogelio Martinez

OPEN ARTS/COLLABORATIVE ARTS

Rogelio Martinez, Open Arts Instructor, was nominated (with six other playwrights) for a 2021 Drama League Award for Miami New Drama's 7 Deadly Sins

Donna Cameron, Open Arts Instructor, published a new book, The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

Gustavo Aguilar, Collaborative Arts & Open Arts Assistant Arts Professor, and Gaelyn Aguilar worked together as TUG

Stuart Wurtzel ADG Lifetime Achievement Award
Stuart Wurtzel ADG Lifetime Achievement Award

DESIGN FOR STAGE & FILM

Alan Muraoka '83 (MFA, Design) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Power of We: A Sesame Street Special

Stuart Wurtzel, Design for Stage and Film Faculty Member, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 25th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards

INSTITUTE OF EMERGING MEDIA:

ITP/IMA

Katherine Dillon, ITP Faculty Member, published "How Data Designers Helped Us Make Sense of 2020's Chaos" in Fast Company

The ITP/IMA/IMA Low Res Winter Show 2020 archive was made available online

Jason Krugman (MPS, ITP) won a LIT Lighting Design Award for his project, Capella Basket

Ari Melenciano, Adjunct Professor in ITP, created an illustration for the New York Times, which was honored as one of the most memorable illustrations of 2020

MOLMOL KUO OF YES YES NO, IMAGE COURTESY OF LOGITECH
MOLMOL KUO OF YES YES NO, IMAGE COURTESY OF LOGITECH

Molmol Kuo (ITP) and former ITP Adjunct Professor, Zach Lieberman, were featured in the #DefyLogic ad campaign by Logitech, for their project YesYesNo

Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi (ITP) showcased their simulation artwork ThingThingThing at the World On A Wire exhibition at the New Museum

Graduate students Yiru Lu, Enrique Garcia Alcala, and Li Shu (ITP), had their work included in the Digital Arts Festival hosted by YUZ Museum

Yuliya Parshina-Kottas (ITP) was profiled by The New York Times for her project about climate change

Current student Storm Willow (IMA) had her work is featured on the South African website The Citizen

CHiKA (ITP) displayed her virtual sculptures around Manhattan 

Cy X (ITP) won the prestigious HearSay Audio Arts Festival for their audio piece, XOXO LEX

Stephanie Misa won the Art Foundation Merita’s Award

Current student Ahmed Mostafa (ITP) exhibited a new art project at the Cairotronica Festival for new media arts

Matt Parker
Matt Parker

NYU GAME CENTER

Matt Parker, NYU Game Center Professor, was awarded the 2020 Mega Grant

Eric Zimmerman, NYU Game Center Professor, was awarded the 2020 Mega Grant

CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE OF RECORDED MUSIC

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Faculty Member in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Topaz Jones '15 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute), Simon Davis '15 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Jason Sondock '15 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won The Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival for the film, Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Faculty Member in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Soul

Robert Glasper, Adjunct Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was a songwriter on the album, Better Than I Imagine, which won a Grammy Award

Grammys 2021
Grammys 2021

Cole M.G.N (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) produced the Grammy Award winning album Hyperspace

Andrew Watt (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) won the Grammy for Producer of the Year

Alan Silverman, Adjunct Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, mastered three artists who were nominated for Grammy Awards

Topaz Jones '15 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) won a SXSW Film Award for Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma

PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

Jeffrey Henson Scales, Photography & Imaging Faculty Member, was interviewed by ABC 7 on the NY Times Year In Pictures, which he curates annually 

Carlos Hernandez, Photography & Imaging Sophomore, was a featured artist in NYU's Spring Welcome Event hosted by CMEP

Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging, published a new book, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

Rian Dundon (Photography & Imaging) photographed the Summer 2020 protests in Portland, Oregon, which were featured in The Washington Post

Joseph Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography & Imaging, opened a new online gallery exhibition of his LAPD: 1994 project with the Bronx Documentary Center

Senior Ayesha Kazim (Photography & Imaging) was named one of “10 Black Female Photographers to Watch in 2021” by the Photographic Museum of Humanity

SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS FROM DPI STUDENT ASHLEY PENA COMMISSIONED BY APPLE
SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS FROM DPI STUDENT ASHLEY PENA COMMISSIONED BY APPLE

Student Ashley Pena (Photography & Imaging) had her work featured in Apple’s HomeTown series, which celebrates Black History Month

Gabrielle Lurie (Photography & Imaging) was selected as Local Photographer of the Year Pictures of the Year International

Editha Mesina, Photography & Imaging Professor, received a NYC Mayoral Certificate for her work with New York City’s homeless

Alice Proujansky '02 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) published a photo essay "Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births"

Lorie Novak, Photography & Imaging Professor, was featured in Vogue Italia

Elliott Brown Jr. (Photography & Imaging) was featured in the New York Times

Chang W. Lee (Photography & Imaging) had a photo published in The New York Times on how Asian and Asian-American photographers visualize "love in a time of hate"

Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging, was featured in the New York Times for showcasing her work in the outdoor exhibition, Staying Power

Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging, was elected to the Academy of Arts & Sciences

Lili Kobielski and Olivia Horner (Photography & Imaging) were featured in Vogue

Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging, was featured in A Global History of Women Photographers

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (Photography & Imaging) was honored at The Center for Photography at Woodstock Affinity Awards

Rindon Johnson (Photography & Imaging) opened his first solo museum exhibition, Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies

Hank Willis Thomas’ (Photography & Imaging) sculpture, Unity, was featured on the cover of NYU Alumni Magazine

Shina Peng '21 (Photography & Imaging) photographed the band Chai for the New York Times

MAURICE KANBAR INSTITUTE OF FILM & TELEVISION:

GRADUATE FILM

Rezwan Shahriar Sumit (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for the prestigious Ingmar Bergman Award at the 44th Göteborg Film Festival for the film, The Salt in Our Waters

Omar Zúñiga (MFA, Graduate Film) released The Strong Ones on DVD

Omar Zúñiga’s (MFA, Graduate Film) debut film, The Strong Ones, was reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter

Chloé Zhao (MFA, Graduate Film) and Mollye Asher ‘99 (BFA, Drama)/‘14 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won Best Feature at the 2020 Gotham Awards for the film, Nomadland

Cris Gris, Sontenish Myers, Tony Koros, and Alyssa Loh (MFA, Graduate Acting) were announced as 2021 Screenwriter Lab Fellows by the Sundance Institute

Mamadou Dia (MFA, Graduate Film) sat down with The Wrap to speak on his critically-acclaimed feature film, Nafi’s Father

Chloe Zhao was the first woman in history to receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Director of the Year

Kasi Lemmons, Graduate Film Professor, was recruited by ABC to serve as a director on their new anthology series, Women of the Movement

Spike Lee’s, Graduate Film Professor, Da 5 Bloodz was named 2020’s Best Film by The National Board of Review

Chloe Zhao’s (Graduate Film) Nomadland was named her film a Top Film of 2020 by The National Board of Review

FRANCHES MCDORMAND AND CHLOE ZHAO PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDS / SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
FRANCHES MCDORMAND AND CHLOE ZHAO PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDS / SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES

Chloe Zhao’s (Graduate Film) Nomadland received Film Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Female lead 

Elegance Bratton’s (Graduate Film) was nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards for Pier Kids

Chloe Zhao (MFA, Graduate Film) was the first woman in history to receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Director of the Year

Maria Altamirano (MFA, Graduate Film) was named a fellow for the 2021 installment of the highly competitive Rotterdam Lab

Blerta Basholli’s (Graduate Film) Hive won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic, and the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival

Zamarin Wahdat’s (Graduate Film) thesis film, Bambirakwon the Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival 

Alexis Gambis’s (Graduate Film) Son of Monarchswon the Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 

Gregory Barnes '22 (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival for The Touch of the Master's Hand

Peter Mavromates '84 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) and Douglas Urbanski '79 (Drama) were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Mank

Chloé Zhao (Graduate Film) and Mollye Asher '99 (BFA, Drama)/ '14 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) were nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards for Nomadland

Misha Green '06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Lovecraft Country

Chloé Zhao’s (Graduate Film) Nomadland received five nominations at the London Critics’ Circle Awards, including Director of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year, and Film of the Year, Technical Achievement, and Actress of the Year for Frances McDormand’s performance

Professor Spike Lee’s film, Da 5 Bloods, received an Actor of the Year nomination for Delroy Lindo’s performance, and a Supporting Actor of the Year nomination for the late Chadwick Boseman at the London Critics’ Circle Awards

Cathy Yan (Graduate Film) was enlisted to write and direct the sci-fi love story The Freshening

Karishma Dev Dube (Graduate Film) won Best Asian American Student Filmmaker in the East Region for her film Bittu

Ramzi Bashour (Graduate Film) won the Special Jury Prize at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival for the film The Trees

Karishma Dev Dube '19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won the Best Asian American Student Filmmakers award at the DGA Student Film Award for the film East Region

Seith Mann '02 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for #FreeRayshawn

Spike Lee, Professor of Graduate Film, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Da 5 Bloods

Steve McQueen (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Small Axe – “Mangrove”

Christine Swanson '00 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel

Karishma Dev Dube’s (MFA, Graduate Film) film, Bittu, was an Oscar shortlist

Max Walker-Silverman (Graduate Film) screened Chuj Boys of Summer at SXSW

Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Graduate Film) screened Summer Animals at SXSW

Michael D. Ratner (Graduate Film) screened Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil at SXSW

Darius Clark Monroe '10 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was selected as a 2021 USA Fellow

Spike Lee, Professor of Graduate Film, was named Filmmaker Of The Year by The American Cinema Editors

Mollye Asher, Steve McQueen, Garrett Bradley and Gus Van Sant (Graduate Film) were honored at The Cinema Unbound Awards

Sara Colangelo’s (MFA, Graduate Film) film, Worth, was acquired by Netflix and Higher Ground (Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company)

Hind Shoufani (Graduate Film) co-wrote The Present, which was an official 93rd annual Oscar Shortlist

Ang Lee (Graduate Film) was awarded France's highest order of merit: the Legion of Honour

Reinaldo Marcus Green (Graduate Film) was enlisted to direct Paramount’s Bob Marley biopic

KEFF’S (Graduate Film) Taipei Suicide Story received both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Narrative Features, and the Best Actor prize

Elegance Bratton's Pier Kids
Elegance Bratton's Pier Kids

Elegance Bratton (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a Spirit Award for his film, Pier Kids

Chloé Zhao’s (MFA, Graduate Film) Nomadland won multiple awards at the 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards

Shaka King’s (Graduate Film) Judas and the Black Messiah won Daniel Kaluuya the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards

Ria Tobaccowala's (MFA, Graduate Film) short film, SHADOWSlanded a distribution deal with HBO

Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Graduate Film) won the Special Jury Prize in the Texas Shorts category at SXSW 2021 for Summer Animals

Max Walker-Silverman (Graduate Film) won a Special Jury Award at SXSW 2021 for Chuj Boys of Summer

Joshua James Richards (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated by The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for his cinematography in Nomadland

Dee Rees’ (MFA, Graduate Film) Pariah was the first film by a queer woman of color on the Criterion Collection

Chloé Zhao’s (MFA, Graduate Film) and Mollye Asher ‘99 (BFA, Drama)/’14 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) were nominated for multiple BAFTA Awards Nomadland

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for a DGA Award and a PGA Award for Nomadland

Spike Lee, Graduate Film Professor, was nominated for a DGA Award for David Byrne’s American Utopia

Nisha Ganatra ’99 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for a DGA Award for #wombstories, Bodyform/Libresse

Shaka King ‘13 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for a PGA Award for Judas and the Black Messiah

Chloé Zhao’s (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) film, Nomadland, was nominated for multiple Academy  Awards

Shaka King’s '13 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) film, Judas and the Black Messiah, was nominated for multiple Academy Awards

Mark Ricker '95 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was nominated for an Academy Award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Spike Lee, Graduate Film Professor, was named the President of the Jury of the 74th Edition of Festival de Cannes

Haley Elizabeth Anderson '19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a SXSW Award for Summer Animals

Max Walker-Silverman '20 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a SXSW Award for Chuj Boys of Summer

Emily Kunstler '00 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a SXSW Award for Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Chloé Zhao’s (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) film, Nomadlandwon three BAFTA Awards

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won a DGA and PGA Award 

Shaka King (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was awarded the Sun Valley Film Festival Pioneer Award

Josef Kubota Wladyka, Lin Que Ayoung, Stephanie Bollag, and Aisha Ford (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) had their films featured at the Tribeca Film Festival

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won multiple Spirit Awards for her film, Nomadland

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards for Nomadland

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won multiple Golden Globe Awards for Nomadland

Chloé Zhao (Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was listed on the 29th Annual Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 list

Danny Pino ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen

Cris Gris, Tony Koros and Sontenish Myers (MFA, Graduate Film) were selected as 2021 Sundance Institute Directors Lab Fellows

Thesis students Mélanie Akoka, Eve Liu and Jorge Sistos (Graduate Film) were awarded the Black Family Prize for Thesis Short Films

Terrance Daye and Jess dela Merced (Graduate Film) were named Sundance Institute Episodic Lab fellows

UNDERGRADUATE FILM & TELEVISION

Damon Lindelof ‘85 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Nicole Kassell ‘02 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won Breakthrough Series (Over 40 Minutes) at the 2020 Gotham Awards for Watchmen

Sam Pollard, Professor in the department of Undergraduate Film & Television, was highlighted in the New York Times for his film, MLK/FBI

Anatola Araba (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a Creative Media Award from Mozilla for her film project, Afro Algorithms

Jack Wedge’s (Undergraduate Film & Television) short, GOODBYE MOMMY, was the "Short Pick of the Day" on the website Cartoon Brew

Parker Hill '16 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Isabel Bethencourt ‘16 (GAL) won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Sundance Film Festival for the film, Cusp

Cary Anderson '89 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Joseph P. Reidy '76 (Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and James Rodenhouse '14 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for The Trial of the Chicago 7

Justin Wilkes '99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Hamilton

Andy Samberg '00 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Palm Springs

Andrew Fleming '85 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Emily in Paris

2021 Golden Globes
2021 Golden Globes

Steve McQueen (Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Small Axe

Matthew Tinker '09 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for The Undoing

Natalie Jasmine Harris '20 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won the Best African American Student Filmmakers award DGA Student Film Awards for the film, East Region

Alison McDonald '93 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for #blackAF

Melina Matsoukas '03 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Laura Kittrell '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Jason Lew '03 (BFA, Drama) were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Insecure

Ayesha Rokadia '04 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Last O.G.

Ekwa Msangi '02 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Danielle Massie '16 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Farewell Amor

Chris Columbus '80 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Scoob!

Alejandra Parody '15 (BFA Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Gets Good Light

Sam Pollard, Professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film & TV, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mr. Soul!

Alexandra Johnes '99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for On the Record

Christopher Scott Cherot '93 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Black Love

Misha Green '06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film &TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Lovecraft Country – “Jig-a-Bobo”

Keith McQuirter '01 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

Sam Pollard, Professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (Ep. 1 & 2)

Freshman student Allan Rodriguez, (UGFTV) won the National Student Production Award, Best Short Film Fiction, High School Emmy, for his film, Somnum

Catherine (Cat) Min's ‘09 (BFA, UGFTV) book, Shy Willow, was highlighted in the New York Times

Student David Huang’s (UGFTV) documentary, Re-Opening, was acquired by the the Asian American Documentary Network

Students Trent Simonian (UGFTV) & Jack Byrne’s (Gallatin) one-minute Instagram show, Sidetalk, was featured in New York Magazine

Elizabeth Lo (UGFTV) released her first feature-length documentary, Stray

Satchel Lee '17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Jackson Lee '20 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were named the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors

Enid Zentelis, UGFTV Professor, was interviewed by NY1

John Gutierrez’s (UGFTV) film, Sons of the Sea, premiered at The Cinequest Film Festival

Amy Tiong '18 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was interviewed by Elite Daily and featured on Bustle's YouTube for her short film, Bitter Sweet

Alan Baumgarten ‘80 (Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a BAFTA Award for The Trial of the Chicago 7

Joseph P. Reidy ‘76 (Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for The Trial of the Chicago 7

James Price ‘96 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for The Forty-Year-Old Version

Vince Gilligan ‘89 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for Better Call Saul, “Bagman”

DGA Awards
DGA Awards

Ian Foster Woolf ‘80 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for Bridgerton, “Diamond of the First Water”

Larissa Bills ‘92 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for On Pointe, “Showtime!”

Melina Matsoukas ‘03 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a DGA Award for You Love Me, Beats by Dr. Dre

Marika Sawyer ‘05 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and Scott Rudin, Dean’s Council, were nominated for a PGA Award for What We Do in the Shadows

Alan Baumgarten '80 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Academy Award for The Trial of the Chicago 7

Sofia Sondervan '95 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for an Academy Award for The Letter Room

Shal Ngo '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a SXSW Film Award for The Box

Ivaylo Getov '10 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a SXSW Award for Soy Cubana

Melina Matsoukas ‘03 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a DGA Award 

Gerald Orzikh (Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) interviewed creators for ArtStation 

Ifeyinwa Arinze, Justice Jamal Jones, Paula J. Leon, Jiaxin Ying, Aisha Ford, and Yiwen Huang (Undergraduate Film & TV) won FOCUS Awards

Johanna Xue and Lynn Fong (Undergraduate Film & TV) won the Protovin Award for their works

Mulan Fu (Undergraduate Film & TV) won 1st prize at the First Run Film Festival

Kea Lia Pedersen won the Achievement in Animation at the First Run Film Festival

Mulan Fu, Anna Wang, and Charlene Xu (Undergraduate Film & TV) were all finalists at the Fusion Film Festival

Misha Green ‘06 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was listed on the 29th Annual Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 list

Sharon Jackson ‘90 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was listed on the 29th Annual Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 list

Sue Zizza, Professor in the department of Undergraduate Film & Television, won the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre for 2021

NAACP Awards
NAACP Awards

CINEMA STUDIES

Nina Krstic '08 (MA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Last Dance

The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program was awarded a $341,806 grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 

David Jesteadt '07 (BA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Wolfwalkers

Cinema Studies received $250,000 IMLS Grant to train digital privacy advocates; new training programs, teen privacy, medical privacy and disinformation resources

DRAMATIC WRITING

Daniel Goldfarb, Dramatic Writing Faculty Member, had his pilot, Julia, acquired by HBO Max

Steve Yockey '08 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for The Flight Attendant

David West Read '10 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Schitt's Creek

Bill Wrubel '93 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Ted Lasso

Paul Kolsby '91 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Ozark

Tochi Onyebuchi '12 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Riot Baby

Tyler Boehm '05 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) and Susan Kirr '96 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Emperor

Kevin Willmott (Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The 24th

Rajiv Joseph '04 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Little America – “The Manager”

George C. Wolfe '84 (MFA, Dramatic Writing), Tisch Dean’s Council Member, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Ian James, Professor of Dramatic Writing, debuted his new book, A GUN IS NOT FUN

Graduate student Alicia Louzoun-Heisler (Dramatic Writing) won the 2021 Goldberg Play Prize for her work, Bashert

David West Read '10 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a Golden Globe for Schitt's Creek

Joseph Vinciguerra was named Chair of the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing

Sean Galvin ‘08 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) won a DGA Award for Full Bloom, “Petal to the Metal”

PGA Awards
PGA Awards

Steve Yockey ‘08 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a PGA Award for The Flight Attendant

David West Read ‘10 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a PGA Award for Schitt’s Creek

Bill Wrubel ‘93 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a PGA Award for Ted Lasso

David West Read ‘10 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a DGA Award

Rinne Groff, Dramatic Writing Faculty Member, premiered the play, The Woman's Party

Suzan-Lori Parks, Professor in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, was elected to the Academy of Arts & Sciences