Each semester at Tisch abounds with dynamic new work and uncommon achievements from our community. As we close the curtains on the 2025 Spring Semester, we revisit the students, faculty, and alumni whose impactful work touched our worlds or earned special recognition this year.
Institute of Performing Arts
Art & Public Policy
Luis Rincon Alba (Assistant Professor, Art & Public Policy), Shamar Watt (MFA Candidate, Dance) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls (Associate Professor, Art & Public Policy) received the Global Research Initiative Fellowship to further their research on Black Francophone speculation and sci fi in France.
Marjuan Canady ‘10 (MA, Art & Public Policy) co-produced the musical “Hell’s Kitchen" which won the Recording Academy/Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
Pato Hebert (Department Chair and Professor, Art & Public Policy) appeared in Please Hold, an experimental documentary.
Karen Finley (Professor, Art & Public Policy) had two poems entitled “Grief” and “Cooking” featured in The Brooklyn Rail.
Collaborative Arts
Sirintip Phasuk (Instructor, Collaborative Arts) presented MYCELIUM at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center.
Fina Strazza '27 (Collaborative Arts) starred in John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.
Fina Strazza '27 (Collaborative Arts) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Sam Charney (Collaborative Arts) premiered a solo performance art piece, "Transduction," at the Denver Fringe Festival.
Dance
Kyle Abraham '06 (MFA, Dance) was named the convocation speaker and prestigious Lucas Lecturer for Carleton College.
Monica Barbaro '10 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Monica Barbaro '10 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for two 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
cari ann shim sham* (Arts Professor, Dance), Meenah Nehme '24 (Dance), Karsen Tengan '22 (Dance), and Demetris Charalambous '22 (Dance) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Luis Rincon Alba (Assistant Professor, Art & Public Policy), Shamar Watt (MFA Candidate, Dance) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Jeanine Durning '90 (BFA, Dance) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Monica Bill Barnes '97 (MFA, Dance) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Ioana Alfonso '98 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Design for Stage & Film
Paul Tazewell ’89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Oana Botez '04 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 68th annual Obie Award.
Stacey Derosier '18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 68th annual Obie Award.
Jian Jung (Adjunct Faculty, Design for Stage and Film) won a 68th annual Obie Award.
Beowulf Boritt '96 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) received a theatre grant at the 68th Obie Awards.
dots, which is comprised of Kimie Nishikawa '15 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film), Andrew Moerdyk '18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film), and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde '18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film), were awarded a 2025 United States Artists fellowship.
Paul Tazewell ’89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) won a 2025 Academy Award.
Clint Ramos ‘97 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) joined Lincoln Center as Artist-in-Residence.
Gregg Barnes '83 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was honored with the TDF/Irene Sharaff Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design.
Oana Botez ’04 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Qween Jean ‘16 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Mariko Ohigashi ’17 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Stacey Derosier ’18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
David Bengali ’12 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for multiple 2025 Lucille Lortel Awards.
dots (Kimie Nishikawa '15 (MFA Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Andrew Moerdyk '18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Santiago Orjuela-Laverde ’18 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Marsha Ginsberg '90 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Arnulfo Maldonado '05 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Brenda Abbandandolo '10 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Gregg Barnes '83 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Clint Ramos '97 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
David Bengali '12 (MFA, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Justin Townsend (Chair, Design for Stage and Film) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Drama
Rachel Sennott ‘18 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Zoë Worth ’11 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Corinne Britti ‘16 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Idina Menzel ‘93 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Lisa Remington '01 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Jade Lo and Sara Manos (both current BFA students) were featured in an article about their work for Tisch Drama Stage’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Hailey Gates ’12 (BFA, Drama) won an award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Rubén Polendo (Professor, Drama & Associate Dean, IPA) and Justin Nestor ‘07 (BFA, Drama) with their company, Theater Mitu won the Obie Award for Sustained Innovation.
nicHi douglas '09 (BFA, Drama) won a 68th annual Obie Award.
Molly Shannon '87 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Screen Actors Guild Award.
Devin Kawaoka ‘05 & ‘10 (BFA, Drama & MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Screen Actors Guild Award.
Lady Gaga (Drama) won a 2025 Grammy Award.
Alisha Gaddis '03 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Grammy Award.
Evan Ross Katz '11 (BFA, Drama) was named on the Washington Post’s “Post Next 50” list.
Elizabeth Evans ’12 (BFA, Drama) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Alexis Jacknow ’08 (BFA, Drama) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Lisa Remington '01 (BFA, Drama) won a 2025 Academy Award.
Moses Aina ‘25 (Drama) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Shannon Burkett '96 (BFA, Drama), Heather Christian '04 (BFA, Drama), and Kate Douglas '12 (BFA, Drama) were announced as 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients.
Daniel C. Soule (Assistant Arts Professor, Drama) was announced as a recipient of the inaugural Tisch Creative Research Faculty Publishing Grant.
Moisés Kaufman ’17 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Lucille Lortel Awards.
Amanda Gronich ’90 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Natalie Walker ’13 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Christopher Ford '08 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Dakota Rose ’09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Lauren Patten (Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Betsy Aidem ’79 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Olivia Washington ’13 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Rubén Polendo (Professor, Drama & Associate Dean, IPA) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Abigail S. Browde '04 (BFA, Drama) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Michael S. Silverstone '03 (BFA, Drama) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Kristen Bell (Drama) was named one of TIME Magazine's Most 100 Influential People of 2025.
Molly Shannon ’87 (BFA, Drama) was announced as the 2025 NYU Commencement Speaker.
Jessica Hecht '87 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Sam Pinkleton '09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Dana Jackson '90 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
John Leguizamo (Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Ken Davenport '94 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple 2025 Tony Awards.
Rose Caiola '91 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Christopher Ford ‘08 (BFA, Drama) received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Costume Design for a Play (The Bestiary).
Seo Yun (current student, Drama) won the TCG Willa Kim Fellowship in Costume Design.
Tess Rowan Jannery-Barney, Nathalia Nicolalde, and Isabella Molinary Sandoval (all current students, Drama) were awarded 2025 Community Engaged Summer Grants.
Graduate Acting
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ‘95 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Samantha Quan '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Samantha Quan ’01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for multiple 2025 BAFTA awards.
Samantha Quan '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Devin Kawaoka ‘05 & ‘10 (BFA, Drama & MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Screen Actors Guild Award.
Samantha Quan '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Elizabeth Evans ‘19 (MFA, Graduate Acting) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Todd Bartels ’11 (MFA, Graduate Acting) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Samantha Quan '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won a 2025 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award.
Samantha Quan '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won a 2025 Academy Award.
Frank Wood ’87 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Sarin Monae West ’20 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Richard Topol ’87 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Nick Mills '06 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Daniel Dae Kim '96 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was named one of TIME Magazine's Most 100 Influential People of 2025.
Daniel Dae Kim '96 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
Winnie Holzman (Cycle 1) won a 2025 Golden Globe Award.
Winnie Holzman (Cycle 1) was nominated for multiple 2025 Critics Choice Awards.
Maiga Vidal ‘25 (Cycle 34) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Susan C. Li (Cycle 34) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Cheeyang Ng (Cycle 28) & Eric Sorrels (Cycle 28) were announced as 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients.
Sean Patrick Flahaven (Cycle 7 and Faculty) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Deborah Abramson (Cycle 8) presented TRAMPOLINE at 54 Below.
Jessie Field (Cycle 29) and Kat Cartusciello (Cycle 30) had songs featured in January's Verse Intro Cabaret, presented with Soho Playhouse.
Maiga Vidal (Cycle 34) presented a reading of the musical, Cafe Con Leche, with book, lyrics, and music by Vidal. Music Direction, Orchestration, and Arrangements were also provided by current student Felipe Segovia Sanhueza (Cycle 34).
Jacinth Greywoode (Cycle 27) and AriDy Nox (Cycle 27) won a Richard Rodgers Award for Black Girl in Paris.
Sophie Boyce (Cycle 32) and Veronica Mansour (Cycle 32) won a Richard Rodgers Award for The Dark Lady.
Mel Marvin (Faculty) released the album LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
Tidtaya Sinutoke (Cycle 22), Rona Siddiqui (Cycle 21), Pete Mills (Cycle 8), and Jesse Kearney (Cycle 8) were declared finalists in the National Music Theatre Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Lisette Flodowski (Cycle 28) and Richard C. Walter (Cycle 28) presented their musical Madame Cliquot at Pittsburgh CLO.
Scott Davenport Richards (Cycle 6) had music presented at the New York premiere of BLIND INJUSTICE at the Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall.
Gaby Alter (Cycle 15) presented the musical NOBODY LOVES YOU at ACT San Francisco.
Ben Bonnema (Cycle 21) presented the musical THE APPLE BOYS for which he wrote the music and lyrics at Bucks County Playhouse.
Will Aronson (Cycle 16) was nominated for multiple 2025 Tony Awards.
Sean Patrick Flahaven (Cycle 7 and Faculty) was nominated for multiple 2025 Tony Awards.
Rachel Sheinkin (Cycle 10 and Faculty) and William Finn (former Faculty) presented THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at the Kennedy Center.
Performance Studies
André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies) gave a talk entitled: "Performing in Surveilled Totality" at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris.
Mark Lockwood ‘17 (MA, Performance Studies) has successfully defended his dissertation, "BLACK INCHES: MASCULINITY, VISUALITY, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE 'BLATINO PORN' ERA," and started the SPAN Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.
Diana Taylor (Professor, Performance Studies) was awarded a year-long Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities to finish her digital book, Shape Shifting Performance.
Hadar Landan ‘20 (BA, Performance Studies) presented the first evening length show, “LanDance: "54.”
Ann Pellegrini (Professor, Performance Studies) and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou (Faculty, NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) had their book, Gender Without Identity nominated for a 2024 Gradiva Award.
Gwen Rakotovao '19 (MA, Performance Studies) started pursuing a PhD at Stockholm University of the Arts with their research, titled "Famadihana 2.0 | Embodied Explorations: Investigating the Essence of the Famadihana Ritual."
Zjana Muraro ‘15 (MA, Performance Studies) presented experimental dance work at the White Wave Dance Festival.
Karen Shimakawa (Professor, Performance Studies), Allen Weiss (Professor, Performance Studies), André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies), Marc Arthur ‘19 (PhD, Performance Studies), and Joshua Takano Chambers Leston '09 (PhD, Performance Studies) spoke and presented work at Park Avenue Armory's symposium "A Dream You Dream Together."
André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies) had his book, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement translated into Romanian with a total of 14 translations since its release.
Christina Yang (PhD Advisor, Performance Studies) was selected as a Curatorial Ambassador for the inaugural Arrival Art Fair.
Alex Tatarsky ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) received the second annual Triple Canopy Fellowship.
Penelope Gould '23 (BA, Performance Studies) presented the DIY punk show/musical Lost Grrrl Found at Pianos.
Aliza Shvarts '10 & ‘20 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) had her work, Untitled [Senior Thesis] (2008), named #32 of the best 100 artworks of the 21st century by ARTnews / Art in America.
Tara Aisha Willis ‘13 & ‘22 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) was announced as the Curator of Dance & Theater at EMPAC, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Aliza Shvarts '10 & ‘20 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) was commissioned to write a feature article on the state of reproductive justice in the art world today for Art in America.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ‘07 (MA, Performance Studies) was named one of TIME Magazine's Most 100 Influential People of 2025.
Xiao Liu (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) received a GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '07 (MA, Performance Studies) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Buffy ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) was an artist-in-residence at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where the performance EXAM premiered.
Seamus Slattery ‘23 (BA, Performance Studies) shared an in-progress performance work, Forcefold, as part of Movement Research’s Open Performance series.
Fusako Innami '08 (MA, Performance Studies) had Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan made available on Open Access and can be read online for free on Fulcrum platform.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '07 (MA, Performance Studies) won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Purpose.
Lynn Sally ‘04 (PhD, Performance Studies) celebrated the new publication of Sex on Stage.
Institute of Emerging Media
CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE OF RECORDED MUSIC
Andrew Watt (Recorded Music) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Kaleb “KQuick” Rollins ’10 (BFA, Recorded Music) worked on a 2025 Grammy award winning project.
Domenico Randazzo ’20 (BFA, Recorded Music) worked on a 2025 Grammy award winning project.
Nija Charles ’14 (FMM, Recorded Music) worked on a 2025 Grammy award winning project.
Bobby Wooten III (Assistant Arts Professor, Recorded Music) was the bassist for Grammy-award winning singer Sabrina Carpenter.
Nate Zucker (current student, Recorded Music) participated in the MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon of 2025 and won the Best Character award for the short film ‘For Pixi.’
JD Samson (Assistant Arts Professor, Recorded Music), Hitha Yelluru '23 (Recorded Music) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Karriem Riggins (Spring 2025 Artist in Residence) and Ashley Kahn (Professor, Recorded Music) were interviewed for the Tisch website about their course on the intersection of jazz and hip hop.
Maggie Rogers '16 (BFA, Recorded Music) was announced as the 2025 Tisch Salute speaker.
ITP/IMA
Nathaniel Stern ‘01 (MPS, ITP), and Amelia Winger-Bearskin ‘15 (MPS, ITP) took part in the event "Processes of Memory: Digital Practices & Re-Membering Histories" at the College Art Association.
Sharang Biswas ‘15 (Adjunct Professor & MPS, ITP) is set to release his first novella, The Iron Below Remembers.
Anney Norton ‘23 (MA, IMA) and her company, Dream Tea NYC, was featured on The Food Network website's "49 Women-Founded Food Businesses We Love to Shop From."
Jasmine Nackash ‘25 (ITP) was featured recently in Creative Applications with her project, “The Red Line”.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin ‘15 (MPS, ITP) debuted the inaugural AI art auction, Augmented Intelligence at Christie's NY.
Khushi Hora, Carolina Herrera, and Leah Jian Yu (all current students, IMA) participated in the MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon of 2025 and won the Best Character award for the short film ‘For Pixi.’
Omi Bahuguna, Mark Chan, Yidi Zhou, Prisha Jain, and Olivia Lee (all current ITP students) won the Best Music award for their short film ‘Qatsi’ at the MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon of 2025.
Kate Hartman ‘07 (Adjunct Instructor & MPS, ITP) released the book; Make: Wearable Electronics, Second Edition.
Tiri Kananuruk ‘18 (Adjunct Instructor and MPS, ITP) and Sebastián Morales ‘18 (MPS, ITP) won the bronze award for excellence in design from the A-Design Award and Competition.
Leia Chang ‘23 (MPS, ITP), Lucia Gomez (MPS, ITP), Sam Lavigne ‘18 (Fellow, ITP), Simone Salvo ‘21 (MPS, ITP), Elyana Shams ‘24 (MPS, ITP), and Carrie Sijia Wang ‘20 (Fellow, ITP) exhibited work at CultureHub ReFest in New York.
Sarah Rothberg ‘14 (Assistant Arts Professor and MPS, ITP), Lisa Jamhoury (Faculty, ITP) and Nouf Aljowaysir ‘18 (MPS, ITP) were featured in the Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition at the ONX Studio in Midtown Manhattan.
Yuliya Parshina-Kottas (Assistant Arts Professor, ITP/IMA), Maryia Markhvida '24 (ITP) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Yeseul Song (Assistant Arts Professor, ITP/IMA), Priyanka Makin '24 (ITP) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Sahal Hassan ‘25 (MPS, ITP) and Lita Vineuza ‘24 (MPS, ITP) won a Rhizome Grant for their project “Cop City Online.”
Sarah Rothberg ‘14 (Assistant Arts Professor and MPS, ITP) had FOREVER MEETINGS featured in an upcoming exhibit at Bitforms Gallery in New York.
Hannah Tardie ‘20 (MPS, ITP), Michelle Temple ‘11 (MPS, ITP) founded and David Rios (Faculty, ITP), Kari Love (Faculty, ITP), Shuang Cai ‘23 (MS, ITP), Lily Crandall ‘24 (Staff and MPS, ITP), and Ocatavio Figueroa (ITP student), participated in Temple University's Second Annual Electronics Faire.
Alexander Reeder ‘09 (MPS, ITP) and his design company, Art and Program, have announced several works currently presenting or upcoming around the world.
Josh Zhong ‘24 (Resident and MPS, ITP) was featured as keynote speaker at Whaaat?! Games Festival.
Melika Panbehchi ‘25 (ITP) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Ender Minyard ‘26 (ITP) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (Associate Arts Professor, ITP) and his student cohort had work featured in Volume Six of the Dumbo Projection Project.
Nicholas Rubin ‘10 (MPS, ITP) and Igal Nassima ‘11 (MPS, ITP) had their augmented reality work displayed as a part of the 20th anniversary of The Gates.
Mashiyat Zaman '24 (MPS, ITP), Kitty Guo '24 (MPS, ITP), An-Kai Cheng '24 (MPS, ITP), and Mathew Olson '24 (MPS, ITP) worked on the game Oshi-Gokko that was added to the Arcade Commons collection at Wonderville in Brooklyn.
Wyna Liu ’14 (MPS, ITP) appeared on the “Design Tangents" podcast, co-hosted by fellow alum Josh Rubin ‘99 (MA, ITP).
John Bezark ‘22 (MPS, ITP) was part of the core design team for Space Opera, an interactive theatrical performance at Obvious Agency in Philadelphia.
Allison Parrish (Faculty, ITP) was declared a featured artist for Word.Art Salon at CultureHub.
Kayla An, Andrew Feng, Moira Huang, Nina Li, Muhan Liu, Jane Liu, Pearl Marden, Beatrice Mai, Avital Rabinovitch, Lucia Shui, Sophia Sun, Sirui Wang, Vicky Wang, Maggie Xu, Finnley Xuereb, Alina Zeng, Claire Zhao (all IMA students) opened the exhibition “Out of Storage” at theBlanc.
Tirtza Even ‘95 (MPS, ITP) and Nadav Assor opened their installation “Chronicle of a Fall" at Bates College through their Impact 21st program.
Daniel Shiffman (Faculty, ITP), Gabe BC (Faculty, ITP), and Lucy Kirakosyan ‘25 (MPS, ITP) presented The Nature of Code exhibit in The Clive Davis Gallery at 370 Jay St.
Nathaniel Stern ‘01 (MPS, ITP) premiered Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies, a creative AI exhibit at Krasl Art Center.
Marina Zurkow (Adjunct Professor, ITP) opened a new exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art called Parting Worlds.
Priyanka Makin '24 (MPS, ITP) and Zoe Cohen '23 (MPS, ITP) presented work at CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival.
NYU Game Center
Jenny Jiao Hsia ‘16 (BFA, NYU Game Center) and AP Thomson ’15 (MFA, NYU Game Center) were named 2025 IGF Awards Finalists for Consume Me.
Julián Cordero ‘19 (BFA, NYU Game Center) was named a 2025 IGF Awards Finalist for despelote.
mut / moochi ‘22 (MFA, NYU Game Center) was named a 2025 IGF Awards Finalist for tapeçaria (tapestry).
Biagi Calicchia ‘25, Hanwen Xu ‘25, Hatim Benhsain ‘25, Isabelle Smith ‘25, and Nichole Shinn ‘25 (all MFA, NYU Game Center) were named 2025 IGF Awards Finalists for Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation.
Jenny Jiao Hsia ‘16 (BFA, NYU Game Center) was featured in the article, “Jenny Jiao Hsia Is Injecting the Game Industry with a Fresh Voice—and a Game Unlike Anything You've Played” on the Tisch website.
Julián Cordero ‘19 (BFA, NYU Game Center) won an award for despelote at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards.
Jenny Jiao Hsia ‘16 (BFA, NYU Game Center) and AP Thomson ’15 (MFA, NYU Game Center) won multiple awards for Consume Me at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards.
mut / moochi ‘22 (MFA, NYU Game Center) was nominated for tapeçaria (tapestry) at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards.
Biagi Calicchia ‘25, Hanwen Xu ‘25, Hatim Benhsain ‘25, Isabelle Smith ‘25, and Nichole Shinn ‘25 (all MFA, NYU Game Center) were nominated for Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards.
Photography & Imaging
Isabel Castro ’12 (BFA, Photography and Imaging) won an award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Lili Kobielski (Professor, Photography & Imaging) photographed Donald Trump's inauguration.
Hank Willis Thomas ‘98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) and Emily Shur ‘98 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) had The Four Freedoms Photographs (2018) installed at the Corcoran School for the Arts & Design, steps from Capitol Hill.
Sophie T. Lvoff '08 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) photographed the article: “New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change" for the New York Times.
Sean Fader (Assistant Arts Professor, Photography & Imaging) took part in the event "Processes of Memory: Digital Practices & Re-Membering Histories" at the College Art Association.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya ‘03 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was featured in the UCLA Hammer Museum’s "Voices of the Diaspora" panel.
Stevia Roxanne (current student, Photography & Imaging) showcased her work as part of BLOOM: An Art Show presented by GROWN Media in collaboration with ArtfullWalls Gallery in Harlem, NY.
Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) participated in a compelling discussion centered on Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images at the Aperture Conversations event.
Jerry Li ‘26 (Photography & Imaging) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) opened the exhibition: Saturation: Beauty in the Everyday, at the Art Gallery at Brooklyn College.
Gesche Würfel (Visiting Arts Professor, Photography & Imaging) was announced as a recipient of the inaugural Tisch Creative Research Faculty Publishing Grant.
Amy Sherald (Photography & Imaging) had American Sublime exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Laura Roumanos (Faculty, Photography & Imaging) led her Business of Art class on a visit to Meta's corporate office.
Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) was inducted into the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Deborah Willis (Chair & Professor, Photography & Imaging) received the 2024 National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Founder’s Award.
Tyler Mitchell ‘17 (BFA, Photography & Imaging) was interviewed for an article in Brooklyn Rail.
Wafaa Bilal (Professor, Photography & Imaging) had his show “Indulge Me” reviewed by Art in America.
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Cinema Studies
Jenny Hsu ‘24 (MA, MIAP) was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellow in time-based media at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
José Solé ‘24 (MA, MIAP) was awarded the David Booth Fellowship in Media Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art.
Matthew Yang ‘24 (MA, MIAP) was awarded the Getty Graduate Internship at the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles.
Caitlin Clements '13 (MA, Cinema Studies) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Dramatic Writing
Samantha Riley '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Golden Globe Award.
Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for two 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Samantha Riley '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Samantha Riley '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) won a 2025 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award.
Brooke Berman (Adjunct Instructor, Dramatic Writing) had Ramona at Midlife in which they wrote, produced, and directed, available on Apple TV and streaming on Amazon Prime.
Raven Cassell ‘25 (Dramatic Writing) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Dylan Sherman had Ohio Play selected for SoHo Playhouse's Lighthouse Series.
Alex Isbell ‘28 (Dramatic Writing) won first place in the “Original Television Series Pilot” category and “Best of Festival” during BEA’s Festival of Media Arts.
Ian Ellis James (Faculty, Dramatic Writing) served as the keynote speaker for the event who presented A Gun Is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence at the Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education Visiting Scholars Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference.
Cheri Magid (Associate Arts Professor, Dramatic Writing) was announced as a recipient of the inaugural Tisch Creative Research Faculty Publishing Grant.
Kenneth Lonergan ‘86 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Marco Ramirez '05 (BFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for multiple 2025 Tony Awards.
Itamar Moses '03 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Sanaz Toossi '18 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Itamar Moses '03 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) was declared a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Ally.
Graduate Film
Jomo Fray ‘18 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Ryan Heller '16 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Chheangkea '24 (MFA, Graduate Film) Bethiael Alemayoh ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film), Karishma Dev Dube ‘19 (MFA, Graduate Film), and Joanne Mony Park '17 (MFA, Graduate Film) were selected as 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Fellows.
Tod A. Maitland (Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Rashad Frett ’21 (MFA, Graduate Film) won an award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Chheangkea ’24 (MFA, Graduate Film) won an award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Ryan Heller '16 (MFA, Graduate Film) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Ang Lee '84/Hon. '01 (MFA, Graduate Film) won the Lifetime Achievement & Service Award at the 2025 Director's Guild of America Awards.
Alex Scharfman, Ari Gold, Margaret Brown ‘98 , Kat Whalen ‘15, Fran Zayas ‘22, Eve Liu ‘20, Pepi Ginsberg ‘20 and ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby ‘23 (all MFA, Graduate Film) had work featured at SXSW 2025.
Noam Argov (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) and Jorge Corona (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) received 2024 Sloan Awards.
Julius Onah ‘08 (MFA, Graduate Film) directed Captain America: Brave New World which premiered in theatres worldwide.
Alex Sassine ‘26 (Graduate Film) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Jomo Fray ‘18 (MFA, Graduate Film) won the Spotlight Award for Nickel Boys at the 2025 ASC Awards.
Pepe Avila del Pino ‘13 (MFA, Graduate Film) won the ASC Music Video Award for “313” at the 2025 ASC Awards.
Raven Jackson '19 (MFA, Graduate Film) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Yuan Yuan ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) received the Focus Features Best Film Award for When Winter Comes.
Lucio Castro (Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film) premiered After This Death at the 2025 Berlinale at the Berlinale Special Gala.
Fran Zayas ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) received the 2025 Jeff Lima Production Award with the short film "La sombra de los Montés."
Manya Glassman ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was announced as a winner for How I Learned to Die on NYU’s 2025 Purple List.
Terrance Daye ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film) was announced as a winner for Mandingo on NYU’s 2025 Purple List.
Jason Adam Maselle ‘24 (MFA, Graduate Film) was announced as a winner for Punter on NYU’s 2025 Purple List.
Cassidy Batiz (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) was announced as a winner for Sweetwater on NYU’s 2025 Purple List.
Hasan Hadi ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) directed and Leah Chen Baker ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) produced The President's Cake at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Mia Cioffi Henry (Professor, Graduate Film) had cinematography featured in Sorry, Baby at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Eve Liu ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Film) wrote and directed, Gregory Barnes ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film), Alex Bendo ‘21 (MFA, Graduate Film), & Elias Putnam (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) produced, Mélanie Akoka ‘22 (MFA, Graduate Film) had cinematography, and Ramzi Bashour ‘20 (MFA, Graduate Film) acted in Nervous Energy at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Lucio Castro (Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Film) wrote and directed Drunken Noodles at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Joecar Hanna (MFA, Graduate Film) wrote, directed, and starred in, Belu Poncio ‘25 (MFA, Graduate Film) produced, and Sam Motamedi ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Film) had cinematography for Talk Me at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Spike Lee '82 (Professor, MFA, Graduate Film/Hon. '98 and Dean’s Council) directed Highest 2 Lowest at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Rachel Feldman '79 (MFA, Graduate Film) opened LILLY in theaters nationwide.
Undergraduate Film & Television
Matiss Kaza '18 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Golden Globe Award.
Jen Statsky '08 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Golden Globe Award.
Michael De Luca '95 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Golden Globe Award.
Michael Bederman '95 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Critics Choice Awards.
Edward Berger '94 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Critics Choice Awards.
Matiss Kaza '18 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Critics Choice Awards.
Sean Baker ’98 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 BAFTA awards.
Steve McQueen (Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 BAFTA award.
Edward Berger ’94 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 BAFTA awards.
David Scarpa ’93 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 BAFTA award.
Matīss Kaža ’18 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 BAFTA awards.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple 2025 Academy Awards.
Brendan Bellomo '08 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award.
Ward Kamel '20 (BFA, Film & TV) was selected as a 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Fellow.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Michael DeLuca '95 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Jen Statsky '08 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Jeremy Saulnier ‘98 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Critics Choice Award.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Director’s Guild of America Award.
Brendan Bellomo '08 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Director’s Guild of America Award.
Samuel Franco ’00 (BFA, Film & TV) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Hannah Stoddard ’13 (BFA, Film & TV) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Jackson Kellard ’15 (BFA, Film & TV) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Matthew Carnahan ’82 (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Cameron Fay ’03 (BFA, Film & TV) had a script recognized on The 2024 Black List.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award.
Michael De Luca '95 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award.
Jenn Statsky '08 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award.
Sean Baker '98 (BFA, Film & TV) won multiple 2025 Academy Awards.
Matīss Kaža '18 (BFA, Film & TV) won a 2025 Academy Award.
Harry Winer (Arts Professor, Film & TV), Skye Muthuramalingam (Student, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Celeste Yeany (Student, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), and Rosa Sandoval-Carlsten (Student, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) were named inaugural grantees for the Tisch Creative Research Collaborative Impact Grant.
Dane Lum Hohmeyer ‘25 (Film & TV; Arai Fund Recipient) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Lacey Hardy ‘25 (Film & TV) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Paula Hung ‘25 (Film & TV) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Matías Guibert Heitner ‘26 (Film & TV) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Ellie Tripp ‘27 (Film & TV) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Nyasia Cooper ‘27 (Film & TV) was announced as part of the 2025 cohort of HEAR US grantees.
Dawn E. Smalberg ‘89 (BFA, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Paul Sparks ’73 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Lucille Lortel Award.
Jessica Bardsley (Assistant Professor, Film & TV) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Talia Lugacy '01 (BFA, Film & TV) was selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Marco Pennette (Film & TV) was nominated for a 2025 Tony Award.
Enid Zentelis (Faculty, Film & TV) was spotlighted for her work in recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month.