The vast talents at the hands of so many Tisch students, faculty and alumni were on full display this Spring Semester. Below we highlight our community's accomplishments; ranging from achievements, awards, fellowships, honors, and so much more. Take a look at all you've done!
Institute of Performing Arts
Art & Public Policy
Anna Deavere Smith, Art and Public Policy Professor, was featured in the Harper’s Bazaar article “The Storytellers Who Are Remaking the American Theater” by Imani Perry
Pato Hebert, Art and Public Policy Chair and Professor, was featured in Art Journal Open for his work “Malapropisms: Track Changes”
Anna Deavere Smith, Art and Public Policy Professor, was featured on the NPR podcast It’s Been A Minute
Angelic Goldsky ‘21 (MA, Arts Politics) was shortlisted for the Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award
Xyza Cruz Bacani ‘22 (MA, Arts Politics) was featured in ANC News for an artist talk where she tells the story of the Filipino Komunidad.
Karen Finley (Art and Public Policy professor) was interviewed for Interlocutor magazine about her booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023: “Karen Finley: Redacted.”
Bidisha Mahapatra ‘22 (MA, Arts Politics) worked with the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, India.
Logan Stacer ‘19 (MA, Arts Politics) was recognized by the Youth to the Front Fund as one of “The Creatives” using their artistic practice to respond to social injustice.
Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres ‘23 (MA, Arts Politics) was selected as a Laundromat Project 2024 Create Change Fellow.
Pato Hebert (Faculty and Department Chair) spoke on the panel: “Health Aesthetics” at Rice University's Medical Humanities Research Institute.
Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres ‘23 (MA, Arts Politics) and Gina Goico ‘21 (MA, Arts Politics) were featured in the BotanicÁrte exhibition hosted at Taller Boricua in New York.
Luis Rincón Alba (Professor, Art and Public Policy) participated in a discussion with New Museum Artist-in-Residence Camilo Godoy as part of his "renacemos a cada instante” performance.
Noelle Ghoussaini ‘10 (MA, Arts Politics) led a two part workshop: “Ritual & Performance” at Mercury Store in Brooklyn.
Gonzalo Casals (Professor, Art and Public Policy) hosted the event: "The Power of Transparency” alongside the Culture & Arts Policy Institute.
Dr. Sheril Atonio (Faculty and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives) moderated a panel about the importance and power of documentary storytelling following the special screening of 2020 Chaos and Hope.
Edgie Amisial ‘24 (MA, Arts Politics) spoke at the “Queer and Trans Afro-Latinx Voices" panel hosted by The Latinx Project.
Melissa J. Olson ‘23 (MA, Arts Politics) received a Minnesota State Art Board “Creative Individuals” award.
Pato Hebert (Department Chair, Art & Public Policy) presented a lecture performance titled Ojalá in Abu Dhabi.
Jordyn Jay ‘19 (MA, Arts Politics) spoke on a panel in advance of Trans Day of Visibility hosted by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective.
Tarisse Iriarte ‘24 (MA, Arts Politics) was featured on an episode of the Crit House Show on YouTube.
Sophie Sandberg ‘24 (MA, Arts Politics) presented a paper she wrote on girl and youth led activism with ChalkBack at a UNESCO symposium on inclusive education in Paris.
Marjuan Canady ‘10 (MA, Arts Politics) co-produced “Hell’s Kitchen" and the revival of "The Wiz."
Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls (Faculty) delivered a keynote address entitled: “Dancing Black Death: Performing Black Aliveness in Public Space” at the African American Studies Grad Research Symposium at Emory University.
Dance
Karla Puno Garcia '07 (BFA, Dance) was listed on Dance Magazine’s annual “25 to Watch” list for 2024
cari ann shim sham* (Arts Professor, Dance) released “body landscape” a project that combines multiple mediums and documents the emotions and feelings that a body experiences.
cari ann shim sham* (Arts Professor, Dance) had “shimmer small anemones” exhibited at the Every Woman Biennial.
André M. Zachery (Assistant Arts Professor, Dance) taught students as the Roser Visiting Artist Resident at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Jesse Robb '02 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Jesse Robb '02 (BFA, Dance) was nominated for a Drama Desk award.
Design for Stage & Film
Jordan Jacobs '96 and Rich Murray '04 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) won an Emmy Award
Mimi Lien '03 (MFA, Design For Stage & Film) presented The Social Sculpture Project at Lincoln Center.
David Zinn ‘91 (BFA), dots ‘15 & ‘18 (MFA), Linda Cho (Adjunct Faculty), Sydney Maresca ‘10 (MFA), Bradley King ‘10 (MFA), Justin Townsend (Chair, Arts Professor), and David Bengali ‘12 (MFA) were nominated for 2024 Outer Critics Circle awards for their outstanding work on and off Broadway this year.
Barbara Samuels ‘13 (MFA), dots ‘15 & ‘18 (MFA), and Cha See ‘17 (MFA) were recognized at the 2024 Obie Awards.
Tatiana Kahvegian ‘21 (MFA), Christine Jones (MFA, Adjunct Teacher), Brett Banakis (MFA, Adjunct Instructor), dots ‘15 & ‘18 (MFA), David Zinn ‘91 (BFA), Arnulfo Maldonado ’05 (MFA), Karen Boyer ‘22 (MFA), Lux Haac ‘12 (MFA), Rodrigo Muñoz ‘19 (MFA), Paul Tazewell (MFA), Jane Cox ‘98 (MFA), Stacey Derosier ‘18 (MFA), Eric Southern (BFA, MFA), Lap Chi Chu '88 (MFA), Bradley King ‘10 (MFA), were nominated for 2024 Drama Desk Awards.
Camille Charara ‘24 was chosen for the Vision into Art Impact Lab Fellow for the Fall/Winter and the premier of a new opera Primero Sueño at the MET Cloisters in January 2025.
Daniel James Cole ‘94 (MFA, Adjunct Faculty) won the Costume Society of America 2024 Award for Costume Design.
Tatiana Kahvegian ‘21 (MFA), Christine Jones (MFA, Adjunct Teacher), Brett Banakis (MFA, Adjunct Instructor), dots ‘15 & ‘18 (MFA), David Zinn ‘91 (BFA), Linda Cho (Adjunct Faculty), Paul Tazewell (MFA), Bradley King ‘10 (MFA), David Bengali ‘12 (MFA) Amith Chandrashaker ‘12 (MFA), and Jane Cox ‘98 (MFA) were nominated for 2024 Tony Awards.
Barbara Samuels ‘13 (MFA), dots ‘15 & ‘18 (MFA), and Cha See ‘17 (MFA) were recognized at the 2024 Obie Awards.
Jason Ardizzone-West '12 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Arnulfo Maldonado '05 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards.
David Zinn '91 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Amith Chandrashaker '12 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Cha See '17 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Roger Teng (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) and Joyce He (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) worked on the short film: Terminal which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
David Zinn '91 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
dots [Kimie Nishikawa '15 (MFA, Adjunct Faculty); Santiago Orjuela-Laverde '18 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film); Andrew Moerdyk '18 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film)] were nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian '21 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film); Christine Jones '92 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film); Brett Banakis '10 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film)] was nominated for a Tony Award.
Paul Tazewell '89 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Linda Cho (Adjunct Faculty, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Jane Cox '98 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Amith Chandrashaker ‘12 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Bradley King '05 (BFA, Drama)/ '10 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
David Bengali '12 (MFA, Design for Stage & Film) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Drama
Molly Gordon (Drama) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Laura Moss '04 (BFA, Drama)/ '16 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Zoe Lister-Jones '04 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple Film Independent Spirit Awards
Olivia Washington '13 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Rachel Sennott '18 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Alisa Zhulina, Assistant Arts Professor of Drama, published a new book, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life
Stephen Carter ’90 (BFA, Drama) won an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award.
Rachel Brosnahan ’12 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Donna Murphy (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Jeremy Shamos ‘92 & ‘98 (BFA, Drama & MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Theo Iyer ’14 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Pedro Pascal ‘97 (BFA, Drama) won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Rachel Sussman ’12 (BFA, Drama) was featured for Women's History Month in an NYU Alumni Relations conversation highlighting her production: Suffs.
Alex Lin '18 (BFA, Drama) was announced as a Finalist for the 2023-24 cohort of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play: Chinese Republicans.
Rachel Chavkin '02 (BFA, Drama) was honored by the city of New York by having 48th Street, home to two productions directed by her, renamed “Chavkin Way”.
Kara Durrett ‘10 (BFA, Drama) won an award at 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW).
nicHi douglas '09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple Lucille Lortel Awards.
Ariel Kayla Blackwood '18 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (Faculty, Drama) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Aigner Mizzelle '18 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Stephanie Choate '10 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Nicole Ari Parker '93 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Justin Levine '07 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
Shaina Taub '09 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
Nikki M. James '03 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Betsy Aidem '79 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Terria Joseph '72 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Cristina Marie Vivenzio '05 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Nate Koch '07 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Rachel Sussman '12 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Michelle Noh '02 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Rose Maria Caiola '91 (BFA, Drama) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Amanda Lipitz '02 (BFA, Drama & Dean's Council) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Graduate Acting
Sterling K. Brown '01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for an Academy Award
Billy Crudup '94 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won a Critics Choice Award
Sterling K. Brown ’01 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ’95 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Billy Crudup ’94 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Karen Pittman ’07 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Britain Seibert '20 (MFA, Graduate Acting) joined the cast for Season 2 of American Rust: Broken Justice as Cynthia Frazier.
Corey Stoll ‘03 (MFA, Graduate Acting) stars as Bo and Danielle Skraastadin ‘99 (MFA, Graduate Acting) serves as understudy to Sarah Paulson in Appropriate on Broadway.
Corey Stoll ‘03 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was named as a Tisch Gala 2024 Honoree.
John Zdrojeski '18 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred as Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby on Broadway.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ’95 (MFA, Graduate Acting) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
Josh Radnor '99 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Florencia Lozano '96 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Frank Wood '87 (MFA, Graduate Acting) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Peter McNally ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Acting), Quinn Jackson ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Acting), and Tony Macht ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Acting) starred in Terminal at the Cannes Film Festival.
Corey Stoll '03 (MFA, Acting) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Carole L. Rothman '72 (MFA, Directing) was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
Nick Mills '06 (MFA, Acting) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
Sam Norman (Cycle 30) and José Alba Rodríguez (Cycle 32) presented new work at the Kennedy Center as part of Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative.
Tommy Newman (Cycle 15) and Jaime Lozano (Cycle 18) presented El Otro Oz at Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic For Kids.
Dahlak Brathwaite (Cycle 30) presented Commercial at the Public Theater.
Rona Siddiqui (Cycle 21) won the 2024 Kleban Prize.
Sam Salmond (Cycle 20) presented a reading of Eighty-Sixed at Second Stage as part of the 2nd Next Stage Festival.
Richard C. Walter (Cycle 28) presented new work at Chelsea Table and Stage written with Lisette Glodowski, Richard Lindenfelzer, and Eric Sorrels (all Cycle 28).
Paulie Pecorella and Alanya Bridge (both Cycle 27) presented new work at The Green Room 42.
Jessie Field & James Martinez Salem (Cycle 29), Miranda Holliday & Justin D. Cook (Cycle 31), and Nico Raimont (Cycle 32) presented new work at Prospect Theater & Latine Musical Theatre Lab's IGNITE Concert Series: New Musicals Mixtape at Chelsea Factory.
EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn (both Cycle 19) presented their new song cycle: “Things We Don’t Say” at Chicago's Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre.
Sean Patrick Flahaven '97 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theater Writing, Cycle 7) won Best Musical Theater Album for Some Like it Hot at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
Veronica Mansour (Cycle 32) won the 2023 Jonathan Larson® Grant.
Carlos Bauzys and Kim Bixler (both Cycle 32) presented their musical: BARBA: A Brazilian Body Percussion Musical at Pregones/PRTT with R.Evolución Latina.
Avi Amon (Cycle 22) presented Through the Sunken Lands at the Family Theater in the Kennedy Center.
James Powers (Cycle 32) presented new work at the Theatre [Untitled] 2024 Concert Series.
Lee Summers (Cycle 25) presented a reading of The Funkentine Rapture at K/Q Playwrights Group.
Nathan Fosbinder (Cycle 28), Josh Ben-Ami, Elspeth Collard, Jessie Field, Sam Rosenblatt, James Martinez Salem (all Cycle 29), Joe Badore (Cycle 30), Matt Graham, and Addie Symonds (both Cyce 32) presented a new song cycle called SNOOZEFEST at 54 Below.
Barbara Bellman (Cycle 27) presented developmental readings of Bordello, The Musical at The York Theatre Company.
Rebecca Hart and Sean McCabe (both Cycle 27) presented work at Verse Into Cabaret at the SoHo Playhouse, with fellow alum Jacinth Greywoode (Cycle 27) playing the piano.
John Dietrich (Cycle 22) in association with Dolly Parton and Dollywood Entertainment, wrote, directed, and choreographed the March 2024 premiere of From the Heart: The Life & Music of Dolly Parton.
Dani Koenig and Abbie Goldberg (both Cycle 31) produced a variety show event at Brick Aux entitled Feisty Disabled Artists: A Celebration of Judy Heumann.
Angelica Chéri and Ross Baum (both Cycle 24) brought their musical GUN & POWDER to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Works & Process series.
Amanda Freedman and Lorenzo Pipino (both Cycle 32) presented their musical: The Angel Makers as part of The 29 Project.
Danielle Koenig and Justin D. Cook (both Cycle 31) presented a reading of their musical: The Myth of the Mountain as part of the Forge Series (in collaboration with Illusion Theater).
Veronica Mansour and abs wilson (both Cycle 32) won the 2024 Richard Rodgers Staged Reading Award for their musical Lighthouse.
Justin Warner (Associate Professor, Expository Writing) was featured in Far From the Tree which won the 2024 Richard Rodgers Studio Production Award.
Tyrone L. Robinson (MFA, Graduate Musical Theater Writing, Cycle 20) presented two Children's Theatre works: Strong Inside at Nashville Children's Theatre, and Catching The Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream at Children's Theatre of Charlotte.
Michael R. Jackson (Cycle 14) & Anna K. Jacobs (Cycle 17) presented their musical TEETH at NYC's Off-Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons.
Tyrone L. Robinson (MFA, Graduate Musical Theater Writing, Cycle 20) opened his musical Show Way The Musical at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Adam LaPorte (Cycle 32) presented PIECE OF WORK at The Green Room 42
Maiga Vidal (Cycle 34) presented her musical Café con Leche: The Valley Musical at Theatre On the Verge's New Musicals Festival at Abington Art Center.
Robert L. Freedman ‘83 and Steven Lutvak ‘83 (both Cycle 1) were celebrated for the 10th anniversary of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with a concert at 54 Below that was dedicated to Lutvak after his passing.
Deborah Brevoort (Cycle 6 and Faculty) sat down with Opera America in Conversation.
Michael John LaChiusa (Faculty) released the cast album of The Gardens of Anuncia available through Ghostlight Records.
Maiga Vidal ‘25 (Graduate Musical Theater Writing) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Briana Harris and Andi Lee Carter (both Cycle 28) as a part of their creation: The Verse Intro Cabaret, presented new work by alum Justin Gates (Cycle 28) at Soho Playhouse.
Dina Gregory (Cycle 12) presented libretto as a part of The Haberdasher Prince at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Angelica Chéri and Ross Baum (both Cycle 24) presented their musical Gun & Powder at Paper Mill Playhouse.
Andrew Lynch (Cycle 27) presented Old King Trout as part of The Climate Opera Project.
Gavin Knittle (Cycle 28) and Ashton Tibbitt (Cycle 27) presented The Thieving Cactus as part of The Climate Opera Project.
William Barnett (Cycle 29) and Fred Sauter (Cycle 14) presented Polar as part of The Climate Opera Project.
Willem Oosthuysen (Cycle 20) and Tristen Moseley (Cycle 29) presented The Watering Hole as part of The Climate Opera Project.
Ziyan Tang and Ashlee K. Thomas (both Cycle 32) presented their musical TI'MON at the Obsidian Theatre Festival's Musical Theatre Showcase.
Dahlak Brathwaite (Cycle 30) presented Long Way Down at Olney Theatre Center.
Brandi Hoang Collier (Cycle 29), Clare Fuyuko Bierman (Cycle 30), Erika Ji (Cycle 30), Derek Gregor (Cycle 12), Veronica Mansour (Cycle 32), abs wilson (Cycle 32), Jacinth Greywoode (Cycle 27) and AriDy Nox (Cycle 27) were selected to attend the 2024 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.
Anna K. Jacobs '08 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Michael R. Jackson '03 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing)/'05 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing), was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Sean Patrick Flahaven '97 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing & Faculty) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Nolan Doran '13 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theater Writing) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Performance Studies
Theresa Smalec ‘09 (Ph.D., Performance Studies) was promoted to Full Professor in the Communication Arts and Sciences department at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York
Kristen Holfeuer (PhD Candidate, Performance Studies) published her article: "Crafting Inoculation" in Performance Research.
André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies) delivered a talk entitled: “The Dispute Over Movement and The Non-Time Of The Struggle. (Notes For a Performance “On The Way”)” at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Melissa West '14 (MA, Performance Studies) was interviewed on Abun(dance) podcast.
Vanessa Vargas ‘16 (MA, Performance Studies) co-authored the article "A bridge over the ocean" that has been included, in English and Spanish, in the latest issue of Critical Correspondence.
Pauline Mornet ‘22 (MA, Performance Studies) wrote an article entitled “Intimate Archives: Love Letters in Wartime Europe” in the latest issue of Performance Research: A Journal of Performing Arts.
Kristen Kelso ‘20 (MA, Performance Studies) presented Clutter B*tch, a one-woman show.
Aliza Shvarts ‘10 & ‘20 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) was appointed as the new Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Director at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fernando Calzadilla ‘00 & ‘12 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies) presented his first solo exhibition titled "Goddesses: Looking or Looked At" at the Arts Connection Foundation in Miami, Florida.
Kristen Kelso ‘20 (MA, Performance Studies) presented Songs for my Grandfather as part of the Emerging Artists Theatre Festival at the 28th Street Theatre (TADA).
Michele Minnick ‘16 (PhD, Performance Studies), Rachel Bowditch ‘04 (PhD, Performance Studies), and Paula Murray Cole (Professor, Performance Studies) co-edited the book Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises.
Macklin Kowal ‘13 (MA, Performance Studies) starred in Bruce LaBruce’s film: The Visitor, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Stacey Manos (MA candidate, Performance Studies) presented her original one act play: Best Thing in the World as part of The Maker's Ensemble Intimate Artist's Night.
Alexandra T. Vazquez (Professor and Department Chair, Performance Studies) had her book The Florida Room reviewed in the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
Biba Bell ‘07 & ‘15 (MA and PhD, Performance Studies), was featured in a recent New York Times article titled: “As Living as Opera Can Get’: John Cage’s Anarchic Anti-Canon.”
Miro Spinelli ‘20 (MA & PhD candidate, Performance Studies) reperformed "Pancake" by Brazilian visual artist Márcia X at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM).
Tara Aisha Willis ‘22 (PhD, Performance Studies) performed at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-on-the-Bowery in collaboration with Damon Locks, curated by Ethan Philbrick ‘12 & ‘18 (MA & PhD, Performance Studies).
Laura Elena Fortes (Administrative and Academic Director, Performance Studies) was nominated for the Distinguished Administrator Award for the 23/24 Academic Year.
Sujin Moon (MA candidate, Performance Studies) presented the musical titled: Neverland Never Ends at the Theaterlab.
Ashton Tibbitt ‘22 (MA, Performance Studies) premiered their original opera libretto for The Thieving Cactus as part of The Climate Opera Project at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Theo J. Malloy ‘23 (MA, Performance Studies) debuted his first novel: The Heretic Prince, on all major platforms, in paperback and digital formats.
Bess Rowen ‘11 (MA, Performance Studies) was interviewed on NPR's Culture Desk in the article titled: “‘We want to help': Why climate activists are trying something new".
Isaac Silber (PhD candidate, Performance Studies) was awarded the GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship.
Kristen Kelso ‘20 (MA, Performance Studies) directed a production of Gidion's Knot, by Johnna Adams presented by LoVo Collective at The Chain Theatre.
Monika Błaszczak (MA candidate, Performance Studies) was awarded the prestigious award Young Poland (Młoda Polska) from the National Centre for Culture in Poland (Narodowe Centrum Kultury) in the category of Dance.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '07 (MA, Performance Studies) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Anh Vo ‘19 (MA, Performance Studies) presented their performance: "Common Fetish" at the Sheerly Touch-Ya & Shisanwu LLC Warehouse.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '07 (MA, Performance Studies) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Collaborative Arts/Open Arts
Rogelio Martinez (Instructor, Collaborative Arts and Open Arts) debuted a new play: Bedfellows at the Rubell Museum in Miami, Florida.
Katherine Fisher (Visiting Assistant Arts Professor) presented at “Moving with Screens + Machines: A Symposium on Embodied Practices and Technology” at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Joseph Dorman (Professor, Open Arts) premiered his film: Moynihan as part of the PBS American Masters series.
Katherine Fisher (Visiting Assistant Arts Professor) received the Solomon Award through Brown University for her collaborative theater project "(Machine) Learning to Be: Performance Development Residency & Presentation"
Chitra Neogy (Professor, Open Arts) hosted the launch of her pop-up book, Blood Words, and a short film screening.
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television:
Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won multiple Golden Globes
Susan Soon He Stanton ’03 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a Golden Globe
Samy Burch '09 and Alex Mechanik '09 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) were nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won multiple Emmy Awards
Susan Soon He Stanton '03 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won an Emmy Award
Samy Burch '09 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) and Alex Mechanik '09 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) were nominated for an Academy Award
Susan Stanton '03 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a Critics Choice Award
Ayo Edebiri '17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won multiple Critics Choice Awards
Sanaz Toossi '18 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) has her Pulitzer Prize-winning play: English set to make its Broadway debut with Roundabout Theatre Company for the 2024-2025 season.
jose sebastian alberdi ‘23 and Forest Malley ‘23 (both MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) have been named the Page 73 2024 Playwriting Fellows.
Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won two Screen Actor’s Guild Awards.
Richard Wesley (Associate Professor, Dramatic Writing) was presented with the inaugural Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Department of Theatre Arts Legacy Award at Howard University.
Samy Burch '09 and Alex Mechanik '09 (both BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won an award at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Ayo Edebiri ’17 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
Donald Glover ’06 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
Rabiah Rowther ‘20 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) premiered "Five Times in One Night" as part of the Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season.
Suzan-Lori Parks (Faculty, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Marco Ramirez '05 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Itamar Moses '03 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Kristoffer Diaz '02 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing), was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
Kristoffer Diaz '02 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Tony Award.
David Adjmi (Adjunct Faculty, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) was nominated for a Tony Award.
Caridad Svich (Adjunct Instructor) was named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
Wyatt Prominski (MFA candidate), Olivia Mermagen (BFA student), Larkin Breitner (MFA candidate), Ashley Campbell, Aggie Hewitt (MFA candidate), and Micah Anthony Hunt ‘24 (BFA) had their work presented at the the second annual Festival of Short Works.
Cinema Studies
Bill Brand (MIAP Adjunct Faculty) presented a poetic film about the French performance artist, Hessie - Hessie, Survival Trance.
Alex C. Lo ’16 (MA, Cinema Studies) won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Brandon Tonner-Connolly ’06 (BFA, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies) won an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award.
Martin Scorsese ’64, ’68, Hon. ’92, Dean's Council was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival for his lifetime achievement.
Marina Hassapopoulou (Assistant Professor) was the keynote speaker for the "Cinema and Beyond" 23rd New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference with her talk "The Myth of (Post)Cinema: Participatory Experience and the Dispersal of the Cinematic."
Antonia Lant (Professor, Cinema Studies) was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship at NYU Madrid.
Juana Suárez (Associate Arts Professor) co-authored an article with Luisa González in Senses of Cinema, "Making a Case for piratas: Understanding the Complexity of Piracy in Colombia from the Vendor’s Standpoint."
Robert Stam (Professor, Cinema Studies) gave a keynote for a conference on "Counter-Cartographies of the Amazon" at Duke University's Amazon Lab with his talk “Indigeneity and the Decolonial Gaze.”
Kim Tarr (Visiting Assistant Arts Professor) presented the newly-preserved film FRESH KILL (Shu Lea Cheang, 1994) at the EYE Filmmuseum’s Activating the Archive conference in Amsterdam.
Zhen Zhang (Professor, Cinema Studies) published the monograph Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema (Amsterdam UP).
Andrea Avidad (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) published a chapter, “Thump,” in Sound Affects: A User Guide published by Bloomsbury Press.
Ifeanyi Awachie (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) published an essay, “The Cyclic, Interdisciplinary Vocabulary of Grace Ndiritu” in Grace Ndiritu: Healing the Museum by SMAK Gallery in Ghent and Motto Books in Berlin.
Oscar Becher (MIAP student) and Lindsay Miller ‘22 (MA, MIAP) participated in “Vinegar Syndrome: A Race to Preserve the Taboo,” a virtual conversation about film preservation and archiving the taboo.
Ifeanyi Awachie (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) published an article: “Maps of Attachment: On re-orienting our language(s) for African art and culture,” in an issue of Seen.
Eric Patrick Cameron (MA student, Cinema Studies) premiered his documentary, The Space Western of the Southwest.
Karim Elhaies (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) presented Egyptian Neo/Noir: Murder in Pre- and Post-1967 Cinema at the Middle East Studies Association conference in Montreal.
Jeff Hughes (MA student, Cinema Studies) presented Hitchcock’s Downhill and the origins of a horror POV aesthetic at HitchCon ‘23.
Julia Pratiwi (MIAP student) co-wrote the article "On Decay: Reflections on Working with Neglected Films" together with her colleague Lisabona Rahman from the collective Kelas Liarsip.
Tannon Reckling (MA student, Cinema Studies) published work in The Gay & Lesbian Review, ScreenSlate, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s blog.
Andrew Reichel (MIAP student) curated “Three by Three by Three Hundred: Rare 16mm Films,” which was screened as part of NYU Cinema Studies’ Friday evening event series.
Carlos Saldaña ‘24 (MIAP student) co-published, co-edited, and translated the book Illuminated Hours: The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler.
Leah E. Simon ‘26 (MIAP student) published “The History of Women’s Work Starts and Continues with the Labor Movement”, a review of the New York Historical Society's "Women's Work" exhibition, in this year's Winter 2024 issue of the Metropolitan Archivist.
José Solé (MIAP student) was awarded the Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Mike Stetz ‘22 (MIAP) worked on "Spike Lee: Creative Sources, Brooklyn Museum (October 2023- February 2024)" as MIAP Graduate Fellow at Forty Acres. Claire Shaffer, Anthony Gonzalez, and Momo Li (all MIAP students) supported Mike’s work as interns.
Lucy Allen Talbot (MIAP student) had their essay: “Why I love the lesbian documentaries of the 1990s” published online by Little White Lies.
Juan Velasquez (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) was awarded a Tinker Field Research Grant by CLACS (Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies) to visit Colombia for research on early Colombian video art.
Matthew Yang ‘24 (MIAP) received an AMIA Broadening Perspectives Scholarship.
Amal Ahmed ‘22 (MIAP) participated in FIAF 2023 at UNAM in Mexico City presenting her paper “The Queen of Melodies: Collective Memories in South Asian Film Archives.”
Matthew Yang ‘24 (MIAP) was awarded the 2023 Society of American Archivists Oliver Wendell Holmes Award.
Fábio Andrade (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) had the short film Contour screened at the Belfast Film Festival, as part of the touring program "Súitú".
Walter Forsberg ‘10 (MIAP) was published in Canyon Cinema for his anthology on Mexican microcinema culture and histories: “Cine-Espacios.”
Syreeta Gates ‘20 (MIAP) served as a producer and archivist of the Netflix series Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop.
Sandra Gibson ‘10 (MIAP) exhibited “Obscurus Projectum” at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, and also performed “The Changeover System” at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Genevieve Havemeyer-King ‘15 (MIAP) was featured in Screen Slate Podcast Episode 21, discussing theatrical film projection.
Joey Heinen ‘14 (MIAP) hosted "TBM IRL: Examining Lifecycles of Time-Based Media Art", a day-long colloquium gathering Southern California artists, galleries, collectors, museums, and archives/estates to consider our shared roles in stewarding time-based artworks.
Kirk Mudle ‘23 (MIAP) co-authored a short article “Expanding Digital Preservation through the DPOE-N,” in the January/February 2023 issue of Archival Outlook, the Society of American Archivists’ bimonthly magazine.
Emily Nabasny ‘14 (MIAP) was interviewed by Walter Forsberg ‘10 (MIAP) about her work as Video Archives Technician (contractor) on the Media Conservation and Digitization team of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
Katie Zwick ‘23 (MIAP) programmed the shorts section of the 53rd New Directors/New Films at Film at Lincoln Center with a counterpart from the Museum of Modern Art.
Graduate Film
Pablo Berger '96 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for an Academy Award
Raven Jackson and Maria Altamirano '19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) were nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Laura Moss '04 (BFA, Drama)/ '16 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Laurel Parmet '19 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Jomo Fray '18 (MFA, Graduate Film) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Brett Morgen '99 (MFA, Graduate Film) won an Emmy Award
Raha Amirfazli ’25 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Brett Morgen '99 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) won Best Music Film for Moonage Daydream at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
Mamadou Dia ‘17, Sheldon Chau ‘16, and Alan Wu ‘19 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) premiered their films at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
Shuli Huang (MFA Candidate, Graduate Film) premiered his film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
Anthony Saxe ‘19 and Tara Sheffer ‘23 (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered and won awards for their films at 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW).
Veena Sud (MFA, Graduate Film) premiered The Stranger, her new feature length film, on Hulu.
Ang Lee '84 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film) was featured in Variety magazine.
Anooya Swamy ‘26 (Graduate Film) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Naa Adei Mante ‘25 (Graduate Film) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Pablo Mejia (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) was named a 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.
East Elliott (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) wrote and directed Terminal which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ella Gibney (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), Wren Stark Haven (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), Donovan Staley (MFA candidate, Graduate Film), and Andy Brame (MFA candidate, Graduate Film) worked on the short film: Terminal which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hanna Gray Organschi (MFA candidate), Sara Crow (MFA candidate), David Rafailedes (MBA/MFA candidate), and Ramzi Bashour ‘20 (MFA) were selected for the 2024 Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs.
Nada Bedair, Kwesi Jones, Xinying Lao and Gustavo René Sanabria (all MFA candidates) were selected as the recipients of the 2023-2024 Black Family Prize for Thesis Short Films.
Undergraduate Film & Television
Robbie Brenner ’93 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Golden Globe
Ravi Nandan ’99 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Golden Globe
David Minkowski ’89 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Golden Globe
Francesca Scorsese '23 (BFA, Film & Television) was featured in NYLON magazine
Jacob Wasserman '12 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Emma Seligman '17 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Matthew Galkin '95 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award
Jeremy Tchaban '03 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Lindsay Crystal '99 and Carmen Angelica '10 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Ravi Nandan '99 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Chris Grasso '05 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Shaun Harkins '81 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Joanna Naugle '11 (BFA, Film & Television) won an Emmy Award
Jean Tsien '83 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for an Academy Award
Christine Turner '04 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for an Academy Award
Robbie Brenner '93 (BFA, Film & Television) was nominated for an Academy Award
Robbie Brenner '93 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Critics Choice Award
Ravi Nandan '99 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Critics Choice Award
Louis Leterrier '96 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Critics Choice Award
Jeremy Tchaban '03 (BFA, Film & Television) won a Critics Choice Award
Brendan Bellomo ’08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & Television) won the US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Ethan Tobman ’01 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award.
A.V. Rockwell '12 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won an award at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Rachael Fung '11 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won an award at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Ravi Nandan '99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won an award at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Christine Turner '04 (BFA, Film & Television) was interviewed by NYU Tisch to discuss her Academy Award nominated film: The Barber of Little Rock.
Brett Morrow ‘23, Alex Gehrlein ‘23, Jack Gacek ‘23, Clint Pang ‘23, and Andrei Captan ‘23 (all BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won awards at 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW).
Adriana Guevara ‘24 (UGFTV; Arai Fund Recipient) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Chiemeka Offor ‘25 (UGFTV) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Paula Hung ‘25 (UGFTV) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Jazz Pitcairn ’21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
John Skidmore ’08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
Eric K. Yue ’11 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) won a 2024 NAACP Image Award.
Karen Herwono '23 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was accepted into the LAIKA Studios ("Coraline" "Kubo and the Two Strings") Stop Motion Summer Internship Program.
Dawn Smalberg '89 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
Institute of Emerging Media
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Joshua Cooper (BFA Candidate, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) went viral after he was accepted into the program
JD Samson (Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) took home the Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Original Score for her work on the innovative documentary: 32 Sounds directed by Sam Green.
Dr. Matthew Morrison (Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by NYU Provost Georgina Dopico.
Ava Henry (Avangelina) and Alberto Lugo (DJ Synchro) (both current Clive Davis Institute students) performed as a part of their group Blive with a Late-Night Jam Session in NYU's Garage venue.
More than 500 members of the NYU community and the music industry gathered at 74Wythe in Brooklyn to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
Sofia Rei (Professor) had her students: Arin Reedy, Ava Leslie, Azel RM, Claire Nichols, Ella Wylde, Eloise Granville, Hannah Williams, Jake Marsh, Jules, Leilani Patao, Lila Diamond, Morgan Swihart, Nadia Faye, Piper Quincy Jackson, Sofia Canale, Sumaya Bouhbal, Sydney Sherrill, Tracy Dios, Trevor Nightly, and True Jackson perform live at Arlene's Grocery.
ITP/IMA
Cezar Mocan ‘21 (MPS, Interactive Telecommunications) presented Arcadia Inc. in the frame of the Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM at /rosa in Berlin.
Jaycee Holmes ‘18 (ITP) was featured in a rolling out article about how she became a professor in her 20’s.
Daniel Rozin (Arts Professor, ITP) has his mechanical mirrors featured in an exhibit at The Exploratorium in San Francisco called Glow: Discover the Art of Light.
Kat Mustatea ‘23 (Project Fellow, ITP) in collaboration with Yonatan Rozin ‘22 (MPS, Interactive Telecommunications) have their work "BodyMouth” declared as a finalist for the 2024 Guthman Prize.
Lu Lyu ‘21 (MS, Interactive Telecommunications) was featured in an Art Insider article written by Shuang Cai ‘23 (ITP) about her kinetic motion sculptures.
Alan Winslow ‘22 (MS, Interactive Telecommunications) had his “Edges of November" series showcased by StandardVision on the large-scale digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott LA Live.
Wei Kang ‘21 (MA, Game and Interactive Media Design) was featured in an article in LA Weekly about her art.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg ‘07 (MPS, Interactive Telecommunications) and the Exploratorium presented the world premiere of Xeno in Vivo.
Ai Xia ‘23, Nicole Padilla ‘23, Jaye Cho ‘23 (all MA, Interactive Media Arts Low Residency Program), and Tony Patrick (Instructor, ITP) collaborated on the “Renewal Room”, a restorative pop-up space and week of wellness events and programming at 370 Jay Street Brooklyn for the NYU Community.
John Henry Thompson (Professor, ITP) presented “POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” in the Clive Davis Gallery at 370 Jay Street.
Ali Santana (Faculty, ITP) presented "NationTime - ELUCID - BETAMAX" in the windows at the 370 Jay Street “Garage”.
Neeti Sivakumar ‘24 (ITP) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Kathryn Lee ‘25 (IMA) wrote the article “Tisch Interactive Media Arts: Everything You Need to Know” for Meet NYU.
Photography & Imaging
Deborah Willis (DPI Chair and Professor) was announced by President Biden as a nominee to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities.
Hank Willis Thomas ‘98 (B.F.A. in Photography and Africana Studies) opened his “LOVERULES – Solo Exhibition” at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
Deborah Willis (DPI Chair and Professor) was celebrated in an article by Theory for Black History Month.
Stevia Ndoe ‘25 (Photo & Imaging) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
Jada Rodriguez ‘25 (Photo & Imaging) was selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).
NYU Game Center
Alyssa “AJ” Rodriguez ‘24 & Ami Cai ‘24 (Game Design) were selected as a part of the 2024 cohort for HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories).