Two Emerson College alumni, Alexandra Gellert, MFA ’19, and Noah Graham ’19, were awarded grants to complete their student films from The Caucus Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 2000 to promote diversity in the entertainment industry.
“After playing the festival circuit for years, we decided to create the festival that we always wanted to go to,”
Three longtime faculty members were honored at Tuesday’s faculty assembly, including one who now has a kindness award named after him.
Anthony Tommasini, music critic for The New York Times, wrote a piece fondly recalling an opera production that Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Scott Wheeler directed, “The Mother of Us All,” in advance of a New York Philharmonic performance of “Mother” with the Juilliard School and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February.
Dozens of Emersonians had a hand in many Sundance Film Festival entries this year.
P. Carl, Emerson’s Artist-in-Residence, previewed his upcoming book that chronicles his life and transition to becoming male with a selection from the work in the New York Times.
P. Carl had never written a book, when a literary agent called asking him to write his memoir.
Emerson alumna Jen Troy’s produced script for the CW series Supergirl, her first credit as a TV writer, airs this Sunday evening, January 19, a little more than two months after she returned from Vancouver, where she covered the TV shoot as the writer-on-set.
Film editor Michael McCusker ’88 was nominated for an Academy Award on January 13 for his work on Ford v Ferrari, his 16th nomination for the film that has already garnered him six regional award season wins.
Associate Professor and MFA Program Director of Creative Writing Jabari Asim reviewed iconic American author Zora Neale Hurston’s compilation of stories “Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick,” edited by Genevieve West, with a foreword by Tayari Jones in the New York Times.
