New, Revised, and Special Topics Courses (Spring 2021)
Check out new, revised & special topic PMA courses for your spring semester!
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COVID-19 & Reactivation Planning 
Open for Submissions: Heermans-McCalmon Competition for Dramatic Writing
The Heermans-McCalmon competition is open to current Cornell undergraduate students now until noon on Friday, February 12, 2021. The contest will award prizes for original works in the following categories: best 10-minute stage play, best 10-minute screenplay, best solo performance/spoken word monologue. The scripts must engage some aspect of American life.
Centrally Isolated Film Festival open for submissions
The 8th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented students for this year's competition. Submission is free! Deadline: February 15, 2021
What we can learn from career transitions between medicine and theatre
Department of Performing and Media Arts Professor David Feldshuh, who is also an emergency medicine physician, is one of ten individuals interviewed in a HowlRound essay on career transitions between medicine and theatre.
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— Austin Bunn, Associate Professor, Koenig Jacobson Sesquicentennial Fellow
I like to build from true stories. I think that comes from my experience as a journalist. I believe in the real world—there’s something important about understanding the facts and the honest genuine narrative and then elaborating from there.