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Join PMA for John Proctor is the Villain Auditions, on Tuesday, November 10, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with callbacks on Monday, November 16, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, in the Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for PMAPS Colloquium with André Brock Jr.: “'The Call is Coming from Inside the House': Algorithmic Inflammation, Misogynoir, and Black Respectability,” on Friday, November 13, at 5:00, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
In this episode, Cornell senior Emily Lee and PMA staff member Chris Christensen met with choreographer, dancer, and educator, Jie-Hung Connie Shiau and PMA’s assistant professor of the Practice Danielle Russo to discuss the upcoming Fall '26 presenting series.
In this episode, Emily Lee '27 and Christopher Christensen met with Cornell sophomores Gia Lish and Matthew Kushner to discuss their roles as Viola and Sebastian in PMA's upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
A new production of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night" at Cornell, adapted and directed by Professor David Feldshuh, melds the traditional play with music from the Roaring 1920s Jazz Age.
Join us for a conversation with John Sloss, the founder and CEO of Cinetic as he tells us how he got his start and offers advice and stories for those interested in the world of Hollywood film and television production and distribution. Join us for a conversation with Emmy winning music editor Craig Pettigrew as…
PMA Professor David Feldshuh visited and spoke with the students in Ph.D. student Isaiah Washington’s First-Year Writing Seminar titled, "Writing Medicine: Stories of Illness and Healing.”
PMA Associate Professor Karen Jaime will discuss her role as co-curator of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project Collection at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU, on Tuesday, October 13, at 6:00 PM. This event, "In the Gallery with Dr. Karen Jaime" is part of a month-long series of events entitled…
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night meets the intoxicating madness of music from the Roaring 1920s Jazz Age in a production adapted and directed by David Feldshuh for Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts. Twelfth Night features a cast of twenty-two including fourteen actors, a singing chorus, dancers, and the onstage presence of professional jazz musician, Mike…
Join PMA for a series of four Professional Directions events, on October 8, October 15, November 5, and November 12, from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, in Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Guest speakers will join virtually on Zoom and will include film and television editor Luke Pebler, documentarian and television director…
PMA Professor Austin Bunn gave a public talk called IMAGINE! Dialogues on the Power of the Imagination and the Public Good, on Friday, October 2 at 5:30pm at the Kitchen Theatre. Part of the 25th anniversary celebration for Ithaca City of Asylum, Bunn will be joined by journalist and memoirist (and former Ithaca City of…
Cornell Cinema and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program recommend films for Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30 that examine Indigenous residential and boarding school histories. The Cornell University initiative highlights Indigenous resilience, truth and reconciliation, and includes a remembrance walk beginning at Caldwell Hall.
CNY Humanities Working Group MP4: Practice-Based Research invites pedagogues, critical practitioners, researchers, and scholars to attend Master Class with Catherine Weidner, author of Acting Heightened Text: The Basics.
Actors wishing to audition for PMA Studios for speaking or background roles, please upload one 3-minute contemporary dramatic monologue and one contemporary Comedic monologue of your choosing.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: A Conversation with Dancer & Choreographer Jie-Hung Connie Shiau on Monday, September 28, at 10:00 am in Room 220, Schwartz Center
Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a Black Critical Thought Symposium Oct. 2. The free event will feature interdisciplinary faculty and student presentations on Black studies, culminating in a keynote conversation with cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten.
The 2026 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist, Dominique Thorne ’19, visited Cornell on September 9 and 10, 2026 for a series of events. She led an acting master class with students in the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), and took part in screenings of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at Cornell Cinema and an episode…
Miguel Angel Guzmán will share his journey as a leading international freelance artist. Coffee and bagels provided.
Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts seeks an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Scenic and Lighting Design for a tenure-track position beginning July 1, 2027.
PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz will present his choreography at the 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival in Washington, D.C. Performances will take place at Dance Space on October 10–11. He will be sharing a work-in-progress called “Cuidado con el perro.”
Internationally renowned dancer and performer Miguel Angel Guzmán will perform "Dynamic" by iconic choreographer Deborah Hay, which was bestowed upon him when selected as one of twenty dancers from across the globe for Hay’s prestigious and final Solo Performance Commissioning Project in 2012.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for a dance theatre workshop led by Michael John Heatley, Artistic Director of Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company. Open to all students, the workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore the company's creative process while working with an acclaimed artist known for creating expressive, movement-driven…
Join the Department of Performing & Media Arts for one of the following information sessions to learn more about the Cornell in Los Angeles program and the applications details.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: Q&A with Television Writer Jeff Drayer '93 on Wednesday, September 23, from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Location TBD. Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
PMA Professor Austin Bunn will screen his short documentary about an upstate burlesque academy, Getting Almost Naked, at the Buffalo Film Festival, on October 9. Getting Almost Naked (23 mins) focuses on the Bees Knees Burlesque Academy in Cortland NY, where five adults -- a punk rock hairdresser, custodian, Southern Baptist-bred college administrator, queer composer,…