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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-three 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…
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,…
PMA Professor J. Ellen Gainor will be giving 2 talks on plays by British Edwardian dramatist Cicely Hamilton, at the Mint Theater in NYC. During her first talk on Friday, October 23, Gainor will introduce a one night only reading of Hamilton’s play "Diana of Dobson's" (1908), about a shop girl and her financial struggles…
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 Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz has been awarded a 2026-2027 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Aldape Muñoz was one of 13 fellows selected from a competitive, national pool of candidates.
Woman or non-binary vocalist for UK Dance Theatre Production "Suitcases" by Hit The Ground Running Dance Theatre Company.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholars are among the 42 faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges and units named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013.
Cornell University alum Dominique Thorne '19 will visit campus Sept. 9-10 for film screenings, discussions and meetings with students. She’s the 2026 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist, a program of the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) in the College of Arts & Sciences.
PMA Department Chair and Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article by Isabel Bekele for Dazed called “Where are all the Black coming-of-age shows?”
Jeffrey Palmer, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, worked with President Barack Obama and his advisers to create two films for the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Three recent Cornell graduates were part of his production team.