VMA’s Regge Life Named to Marquis Who’s Who

Regge Life, Senior Distinguished Director-in-Residence in Visual and Media Arts, has been included in Marquis Who’s Who, a selection based on Life’s accomplishments and prominence in his field.

Since 2011, Life, who currently is on sabbatical from Emerson, has taught Directing Actors for the Screen, Directing Image and Sound, and co-created the Narrative Motion Picture Lab with the Performing Arts Department, a collaboration that led to a Global Pathways program to Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to teaching at Emerson, Life has taught master classes at institutions in India, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. Before joining Emerson, he taught at Howard University.

He is the director of several documentaries including Live Your Dream, Struggle and Success, Reason to Hope, and After America … After Japan. He also wrote, produced and directed the narrative films Cocktail Party, Reunion, featuring Denzel Washington, and Max; has created television specials and directed off-Broadway plays.

He has received the Cine Golden Eagle Awards for Doubles, Struggle and Success, and Seriously Fresh, as well as a Philadelphia International Film Festival Gold Award for Reunion, a Best Black Film Award for Reason to Hope at the 26th Black International Film Festival in Berlin, and numerous Emmy nominations.

He holds an MFA in Directing for Theater and Film from New York University, and a BA in Sociology and Drama from Tufts University.