Golden Globe winner Krista Vernoff, writer/executive producer for hit shows such as ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Showtime’s Shameless, will be the Spring 2019 Semel Chair in Screenwriting.
Drew Daywalt is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Day the Crayon Came Home and The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors. His most recent book, Sleepy, the Goodnight Buddy, was published in September.
Several students, faculty and staff found an Emerson College first-of-its-kind town hall forum on Nov. 27 to be very constructive and forward-thin
November 27 is #GivingTuesday. This animated video, created by alumna Laura Porat ’16, helps illustrate the ways your dollars can help Emersonians be a creative force.
A web series about the aftermath of alien abductions, a comedy pilot about a young mix-raced woman trying to make it in Los Angeles, and a feature-length screenplay about Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage won the top prizes at Emerson College Los Angeles’s fifth annual PitchFest competition.
A photo gallery of Vision of Television: Early Experimental Artists’ TV Broadcasts at Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery.
Two Emerson College alumni celebrated Halloween this year by screening their bone-chilling horror films at the Witch City Horror Film Festival in the haunting town of Salem, Massachusetts.
Leave No Trace, produced by Senior Distinguished Producer-in-Residence Linda Reisman, was nominated for three 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature.
A script that Jasraj Padhye, MFA ’18, originally wrote for Visual and Media Arts (VMA) Associate Professor Marc Fields’ class became not only his graduate thesis film, but also the winner of an audience award at the International Student Film & Video Festival in Beijing last month.
Porsha Olayiwola is a first-year MFA in Creative Writing student studying poetry. Her project, entitled, Black & Ugly As Ever, is a choreopoem that explores “what it means to truly make space for oneself.”