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Event DetailsTuesday, March 23, 6:30 p.m. EDTZoom linkTalk SummaryHassan Mahamdallie, international policymaker and playwright/director, will talk about his unique approach to arts policy, “The Creative Case for Diversity and Equality in the Arts.” This approach recognizes that art placed in the margins through structural barriers and...
Join us on Wednesday, February 24, from 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. EST for a conversation with cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry.Mia Cioffi Henry (MFA in Cinematography, NYU Tisch) shot the short films Cheer Up Baby and Superior and the feature adaptation of Superior, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Cioffi Henry shot...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.The portrayal of Black athletes in sports, film, and television powerfully influences ideas of racial identity in America, and vice versa, argues Samantha N. Sheppard, the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.In a live,...
Join us on Wednesday, March 24, at 2:30 p.m. EDT for a conversation with filmmaker Miguel Arteta.Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He studied film at the Wesleyan Film Program with Jeanine Basinger. His first three features, Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000), and The Good Girl (2002), all premiered and...
About Dark Laboratory: The Dark Laboratory is an engine for collaboration, design, and study of Black and Indigenous ecologies through creative technology. A humanities and arts laboratory co-founded by Tao Leigh Goffe and Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professors at Cornell University, the Dark Laboratory is situated at the intersection of theory, art...
State of the Pod is Cornell's first and only student-driven podcast production team. We cover the emerging issues in science and tech, with an emphasis on their ethical and social implications. We're a team of motivated and passionate storytellers committed to crafting well-researched, original episodes that bridge the gap between the humanities...
Do you sing? Act? Juggle? Tell jokes? Write poems? Play the oboe? Do magic tricks? SOMETHING EVEN MORE EXCITING?!Come share your talent in a low-stakes, high-payoff environment at the PMA Under-Construction Cabaret. Sign up beforehand, and you'll get a five-minute slot to do whatever you want. As the name suggests, this is a space for work at any...
At the start of each semester, students in the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts gather for a frantic but fun 24 hours, during which they produce a theatre festival from scratch. Although Festival24 is typically performed in person, producer Arin Sheehan ’22 and technical director Will Aubrecht ’21, along with assistant...
February 15, 2021, at 7:00 p.m.Benchmark by Anna EvtushenkoDirected by Ross HaarstadPerformance dates: March 26-27, 2021The Good VictimWritten and directed by Gloria OladipoPerformance date: Feb. 26, 2021Present a short monologue or request a meeting.Actors are invited to submit a video or join us live via Zoom. Go to bit.ly/...
Invitation for ParticipationPMA Spring 3609: Making Theatre3 CreditsA call for acting students interested in a performance experience to participate in our Spring production.Co-directed by PMA Professor Beth Milles and PMA graduate Carley Robinson ’20Students will read and rehearse the work of Dominique Morriseau, Ike Holter, Lydia Diamond,...
Bold.org, a student scholarship platform, recently announced a new $1,000 scholarship for undergraduate or graduate minority students who are interested in, already enrolled in, or are recent graduates who took courses going toward a degree in the arts.The Minority Student Art Scholarship supports the creative ambitions of students whose works,...
Joshua Bastian Cole, a PhD candidate in the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts, received honorable mention for his submission for the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize, awarded by the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Queer and Trans Caucus.Cole’s essay, “Missing Things: The Eerie Allure of Hidden Trans...
The Department of Performing and Media Arts hosts a yearly contest for The Marvin Carlson Award for Best Student Essay in Theatre or Performance. This award honors CUNY Professor Marvin Carlson (CU PhD '61). The award consists of a cash prize ($250) and certificate and is given to the best essay in theatre and performance by a Cornell student (...
The Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts presents an encore presentation of Off-Campus/On-Screen: Cornell Life in the Time of COVID-19January 24, 2:00 p.m. ESTA collage of short films led by theatre director Rebekah Maggor and filmmakers Jeffrey Palmer and Youngsun PalmerThis online film screening with live discussion is...
View student designs in the Virtual Design Showcase and give feedback from December 21, 2020, through January 21, 2021.About the ShowcaseThis showcase is a presentation of design materials imagined and created by the students of PMA 3630: Scenic and Lighting Design Studio I, taught by Assistant Professor Jason Simms.Students were given three...
Attention all student filmmakers!The 8th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented students for this year's competition. Submission is free! Submission deadline: March 1, 2021Email your submission to ciff@cornell.edu. YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, etc., are accepted. Submission GuidelinesAny narrative,...
Department of Performing and Media Arts Professor David Feldshuh, who is also an emergency medicine physician, is one of ten individuals interviewed in this HowlRound essay on career transitions between medicine and theatre. Writes Amelia Parenteau,"Other major similarities between the two professions cited by the people I spoke to include...
December 18, 7:00 p.m. ESTDecember 19, 8:00 a.m. ESTDecember 20, 2:00 p.m. ESTA collage of short films led by theatre director Rebekah Maggor and filmmakers Jeffrey Palmer and Youngsun Palmer Off-Campus/On-Screen: Cornell Life in the Time of COVID-19 is a collage of student-initiated short films, created in collaboration with faculty and...
Graduating senior Carley Robinson has received a Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award from the Cornell Public Service Center. Cornell alumni Gerald Robinson '54, Margot Robinson '55, Robert Appel '53, and Helen Appel '55 established the Robinson-Appel award to recognize and honor students who have had significant involvement in community service by...
Join us on Monday, December 7, at 10:00 a.m. EST for a Q&A session with film editor and NYU film professor Jenn Ruff.Jenn Ruff is a film editor, video artist, and collagist based in Brooklyn. She explores the alchemy that results from combining divergent shots, paper cut-outs, and celluloid. She believes that, in the right order, art can cast...
Join the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts for the premiere weekend of Mini Locally Grown Dance (MLGD) 2020 (December 3–5, 7:30 p.m., online).MLGD 2020 is an ode to collaboration and an exploration of connection in the online realm. A series of student solos interpret the current political and cultural climate, offering...
Contest Guidelines and RulesThe Heermans-McCalmon awards were established at the bequest of Forbes Heermans (Class of 1878) and in memory of the late George McCalmon, Professor of Speech and Drama. The scripts must engage some aspect of American life.Winning writers are encouraged to participate in the preparation and presentation of their...
Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard, the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, writes in The Atlantic about Time, the documentary by filmmaker Garrett Bradley.Time follows Louisiana couple Rob and Sibil Fox Richardson as they try to keep their family together during Rob's...
Join us on Friday, November 13, at 4:00 p.m. EST for a Q&A session with narrative designer and Cornell alumnus Hannah MacLeod '12. The talk, free and open to all, will be moderated by Spencer Blumenberg ‘21, Gayatri Sriram ‘22, and Ben Sales (Philosophy PhD).Link to the Zoom session.Hannah MacLeod (A.B. English ‘12) is a writer and narrative...