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Three Department of Performing Arts faculty members, one Emerson student, and three alumni were recently awarded coveted awards for their work in the Boston theater community. The Independent Reviewers of … Continue Reading Independent Reviewers of New England awards announced
Nine Emerson undergraduate and graduate students from Visual and Media Arts Assistant Professor Jim Macak’s TV Pilot Writing and Writing the Short Subject courses were recently chosen as winners and … Continue Reading Students score in national writing contests
As a tribute to Emerson’s 2010 Artist-in-Residence Woodie King Jr., the College’s Department of Performing Arts will present a staged reading of Court Martial at Fort Devens by Jeffrey Sweet … Continue Reading A reading in tribute to Artist-in-Residence Woodie King Jr.
Emerson Journalist-in-Residence Doug Struck led a six month investigation into carbon offsets involving more than 22 reporters and editors, including students Katy Jordan, MA ’10, and Tom Smith ’11. The … Continue Reading Students produce investigative report
Emerson’s Musical Theatre Society presented Broadway producer Ken Davenport with the 2010 Leonidas A. Nickole Award of Distinction April 23 at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre. Davenport remained on campus to … Continue Reading Musical Theatre presents award to Broadway producer
Renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars, this year’s Waldman Chair in Theater Arts, spoke candidly to an audience of Emersonians at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre April 23. “Be … Continue Reading Peter Sellars spends a week at Emerson
Journalism Department Leader-in-Residence Carole Simpson, a veteran journalist and longtime weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight, will be awarded an honorary degree Saturday, May 22, at Salem State College’s … Continue Reading Simpson receives honorary degree
Small towns and the people who populate them are the stock-in-trade of Elizabeth Strout’s fiction. The author of Olive Kitteridge – which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction – … Continue Reading Pulitzer Prize winner visits campus
In her Principles of Public Relations (or as she calls it “Mini-PR”) class and her Writing for Marketing class, Department of Marketing Communication Assistant Professor Julie Lellis gives her students … Continue Reading Students build partnerships
Roughly 1,000 degrees were conferred at Emerson’s 130th Commencement exercises held May 17 at the Citi Center/Wang Theatre in Boston. Acclaimed historical novelist Bernard Cornwell delivered the 2010 Undergraduate Commencement … Continue Reading 2010 Commencement: More than 1,000 degrees