Interview with Madeline George '96, playwright of Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England

Madeleine talks about the origins of the play and the themes of queer love and alternative kinships. Madeleine George is a Cornell alumni class of '96, and the playwright of Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England. Madeleine chatted with us over Zoom from her home.Transcript:I'm Madeline George. I am a Cornell alum. I graduated in the class...

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Andrea Savage ’94 makes ’em laugh

Andrea Savage '94 is a a prolific actress and comedy writer.

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Isabelle's Garden screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Isabelle's Garden, a short film directed by PMA assistant professor Jeffrey Palmer will screen at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.Isabelle's Garden is an uplifting story of a community coming together in reciprocity through the hopes and dreams of a young Choctaw girl and her garden. The screening of professor Palmer's short at the Academy...

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Alum Madeleine George’s play “Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England” comes to Cornell

Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England by alum Madeleine George ‘96 and directed by Sam Blake will premiere at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Flex Theatre on November 12. In Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, a liberal arts college in New England has decided to tear down its quirky, old, beloved, natural history museum...

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Harvey Young PhD '04, Receives the 2021 ASTR Distinguished Scholar Award

Dr. Harvey Young, PhD '04 and Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston College, has received the 2021 Distinguished Scholar award from the American Society for Theatre Research. Harvey Young is a cultural historian whose research on the performance and experience of race has been widely published in academic journals and profiled in major...

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Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England - Now Showing

Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New EnglandBy Madeleine GeorgeDirected by Samuel BlakeNovember 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 7:30 p.m.Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (430 College Ave, Ithaca, NY)A liberal arts college in New England has decided to tear down its quirky, old, beloved, natural history museum and replace it with a...

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Invitation to Propose a PMA Project for 2022-2023

Programming & Curriculum CommitteeInvitation to Propose a Project The Performing & Media Arts Programming and Curriculum Committee is dedicated to supporting with care the cross-disciplinary creative work formulated by our student body.Our vision is to nurture and mentor artists, performers, writers and thinkers through the process of...

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Grad School for Film Directing / Screenwriting / Producing?

Are you thinking about going to Grad school for Film Directing / Screenwriting / Producing?Join us for a panel discussion with PMA assistant professor Jeffrey Palmer (M.F.A. University of Iowa) and PMA visiting professor Daniel Fermín Pfeffer (M.F.A. Columbia University).Professor Palmer and Professor Pfeffer will share their thoughts,...

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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

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Looking at Yourself Through Semi-autobiographical Theatre

How do we make sense of life? One way is writing about it – either directly, like in a journal, or indirectly, like through fictional characters’ experiences. A third option is a hybrid – autobiographical/semi-autobiographical dramatization of actual events and people.The first live PMA production of academic year 2021-2022 (and the first since...

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