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With graduation on the horizon, seniors who spent the Spring 2017 semester at Emerson College Los Angeles (ELA) face the inevitable question: What’s next? For some soon-to-be graduates, it’s all … Continue Reading ELA Students Figure Out Post-Graduation Moves
Growing up half Japanese, half Italian American in a white neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was not always easy for filmmaker and Emerson alumnus Matthew Hashiguchi, MFA ’11. Hashiguchi set out … Continue Reading Alumnus Doc "Good Luck Soup" to Premiere on PBS
This Alumni Weekend, Emerson College will honor five alumni who have made their mark in fields as diverse as filmmaking, autism education, fiction writing, virtual reality, and arts advocacy. Film … Continue Reading Five Outstanding Emersonians to Be Honored Alumni Weekend
The 7 Fingers’ Reversible will open ArtsEmerson’s 2017-2018 season September 6-24. Photo/Cimon Parent Starting next September, ArtsEmerson will bring 13 productions from eight countries to its downtown stages, including the world … Continue Reading New Rankine Play a Highlight of Challenging ArtsEmerson 2017–2018 Season
Three Emerson College Journalism Department alumni—Gerry Wardwell ’80, Steve Shaw ’82, and Joe Rocco ’81—received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) at the department’s awards … Continue Reading Journalism Department Honors Award-Winning Alumni, Students
Massiel Torres ’17 said she never really thought of herself as a very political person—particularly the politics of her adopted home, having come to Boston from the Dominican Republic five … Continue Reading WLP Senior Selected for Women’s Leadership Program
Legendary television writer/producer and Emerson alumnus Norman Lear ’44 will receive a Peabody Award Saturday, May 20, for creating sitcoms that tackled tough issues and brought racial, gender, and socioeconomic … Continue Reading Norman Lear to Get Peabody Award for “Chang[ing] the Face of Television”
This week’s Independent Film Festival Boston is full of narrative films, shorts, and documentaries made in part by Emersonians. Among the films with Emerson ties being screened between April 29 … Continue Reading Emerson-Made Films Screening Throughout IFF Boston
Emerson College Los Angeles (ELA) hosted a breakfast for internship site providers for the first time in its iconic building on April 21. “The internship program is a key component … Continue Reading ELA Hosts Breakfast for Internship Site Providers
Since 2005, Emerson College has housed the American Comedy Archives, including a collection of interviews with people responsible for making us laugh over the last 60-odd years. Now the … Continue Reading Comedy Team: Emerson Partners with Television Academy to Showcase Oral Histories