Jeremy Weiss headed west toward Los Angeles after completing his MFA in Media Arts at Emerson in 2012, focused on pursuing a traditional directing career in scripted TV programming. Seven years later, he’s achieved his first “director” credits, but it isn’t with a scripted program. It’s reality TV.
Recently, we proposed a simple question on Emerson College’s Facebook page: Who is, or was, your favorite professor and why?
The Ivy Film Festival will announce the winners of its five scriptwriting competitions at the conclusion of its weeklong festival April 8-14 at Brown University. And Emerson College is guaranteed at least one win.
School of Arts alum Paloma Valenzuela ’09 was featured in WBUR’s The ARTery 25: Millennials Of Color Impacting Boston Arts And Culture, which highlights “The Pineapple Diaries,” a comedic web series following the lives of three best friends and their neighbor living in a predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.
Graduate student Stephanie Wrobel recently landed two-book deals from Penguin Random House in both the U.S. and U.K. on the strength of her debut novel and MFA thesis, The Recovery of Rose Gold.
Two Emerson College students were recently selected to receive Fulbright Scholarships, becoming the ninth and tenth Emerson students chosen for the prestigious grants.
Ivelisse Rodriguez, MFA ’99 Ivelisse Rodriguez is an alumna of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. Earlier this month, she was announced as a finalist for the … Continue Reading Ivelisse Rodriguez, MFA ’99 Nominated for PEN/Faulkner Award
Seven Emerson Los Angeles students participated in The Instant Film Festival, an event created by the Motion Picture Television Fund (MPTF), a nonprofit organization that aids people through the financial uncertainties of life in the entertainment industry.
This April 5-6, Emerson will showcase tomorrow’s comic masterminds with the inaugural ComEx Comedy Extravaganza, a two-day festival featuring student performances, sketches, and improv, and a “late nght show” with alumni comedy writers and a stand-up comic.
Writing, Literature, and Publishing alumna Holly VanLeuven ’13 grew up a big fan of actor and dancer Ray Bolger, and this month Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow, publishes, the first book detailing the life and career of the Boston-born actor.
