Department Homepage
The College of Arts & Sciences
Thursday, November 5, 4:30–5:30 p.m.Moderated by Christian Lippey ('22) and Triff H'Doubler ('23) Zoom linkPasscode: 779190Do you consider yourself a tastemaker?An advocate? A thought-leader?A consumer of content?If so, join us to learn more about United Talent Agency (UTA), where screenplays find buyers, groundbreaking films find financing...
Tuesday, November 39:55 a.m.–11:55 a.m. ESTbit.ly/SovereignMovementsIn this artist talk, Indigenous choreographer Rosy Simas discusses the intersections between native dance, contemporaneity, and decolonized creative processes.This talk is free and open to the public. Please register in advance at bit.ly/SovereignMovements.
Friday, November 64:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. ESTbit.ly/JessKanePDJoin us for a conversation with Jess Kane, Business Development Executive of Mandy.com. This conversation will be facilitated by Philosophy graduate student Ben Sales.With years of experience in the film industry, primarily working as a producer, Jess has worked on and consulted scripted...
Join us on Thursday, October 29, from 7:30 p.m.–8:15 p.m. for a Q&A session with film producer and Cornell alumnus Brian Dreyfuss. The talk, free and open to all, will be facilitated by Ava Richards '23 and Harris Zweig '21.Link to the Zoom session.As a lit agent, Brian Dreyfuss launched the careers of many talented first-time writers and...
Student Laboratory Theatre CompanyPMA 1670 (Spring 2021)Instructor: David Feldshuh Asiamnesia by Sun Mee ChometDirected by Duoer Jia '21 and Sara Pistono '21Performance dates: April 15–17, 2021 Submit a video of yourself performing or reading a brief monologueTo submit your materials: Please create a folder in your Cornell Box account...
The Neo-Futurists' "45 Plays for America’s First Ladies," which satirizes 231 years of FLOTUS, is a New York Times critic's pick.Jorge Silva ‘12, who was a government and theatre double major with a minor in Latin American studies at Cornell University, is managing director of The Neo-Futurists in Chicago and is production manager of "45 Plays...
On October 30–31, the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), Cornell Ambassadors for Media and Performance (CAMP), and Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA) offer three collaboratively crafted online performances led by undergraduate women artists of color. The series, titled “Virtual Vibrance: Making...
On Tuesday, October 13, a radio production of Sinclair Lewis’ novel “It Can’t Happen Here” will broadcast at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT via Berkeley Rep’s YouTube page. Written in 1935 during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis’ darkly satirical “It Can’t Happen Here” follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes President of the United States by promising...
A new initiative from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is enabling students to put into practice what they are reading, discussing, and learning in their classes. The series, “Critical Moves: Performance in Theory & Movement,” provides students...
October 14, 20207:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDTRegister for the eventIn this artist talk, Mexican-American choreographer Victor Quijada reflects about his experience as an early Los Angeles B-Boy to Canada’s leading artist redefining breakdance and concert dance codes. Quijada will also be sharing details about his most recent, and personal, solo “...
Join us for a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker/podcaster and visiting assistant professor Stewart Thorndike on Friday, October 2, at 1:30 p.m. This session will be facilitated by Natalie Breitkopf '22 and Jack Meunch '22.ZOOM LINKMeeting ID: 936 9745 3987Passcode: 182964Stewart Thorndike is an award-winning filmmaker who tells feminist genre...
Communing with the dead, navigating new parenthood, and exploring Y2K teen pop stardom and the Black genius behind it are among the themes of five student-written short plays debuting online October 8–10 for the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts’ (PMA) 8th annual 10-Minute Play Festival. The festival, hosted by PMA and the...
A corrupt manager, a failing songwriter, a teen pop sensation, and his more talented bandmate always pushed to the side… These are some of the roles we are looking to fill in Jodeci for White Girls, part of the Department of Performing and Media Arts’ 10-Minute Play Festival (October 8–10). Jodeci documents the rise of 90s white boy bands (think:...
Call for DancersVirtual Vibrance: Making, Shaking, Breaking PerformanceThe Department of Performing and Media Arts is looking for dancers who identify as Black and/or members of the African Diaspora to collaborate on a student-led project: Exhibit Noir.Exhibit Noir will be directed and choreographed by Faith Parris '24 and depicts a Black...
Submit your audition materials for these fall Department of Performing and Media Arts productions:The 10-Minute Play FestivalProduced by Zhen Cheng and Levi WilsonOnline streaming dates: October 8–10, 2020 Virtual VibranceProduced by Cornell Ambassadors for Media and Performance (CAMP) and Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (...
When a shortened on-campus spring semester necessitated the cancellation of in-person events, theatre students in the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) did what they do best: they got creative. The team behind the popular semiannual student-run Festival24 quickly changed course and produced an online iteration of the...
Cornell Ambassadors for Media and Performance (CAMP) and Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA) are seeking proposals from directors, facilitators, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, experimental artists, and any other interested participants for a (virtually) collaboratively crafted performance to be offered October 29–31,...
PMA Fall Production: Off-Campus/On-ScreenAre you an actor? A performer? A playwright? A composer? A visual artist? A poet? Do you have an urgent story to tell about Covid-19 and the “off-campus/on-screen” experience? We’re looking for you!The Department of Performing & Media Arts (PMA) announces an audition call for actor-storytellers and...
Each year, the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) invites Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to submit essays for the Marvin Carlson Award competition. The recipient of the 2020 award, which is given to the best student essay in theatre or performance as selected by a PMA faculty committee, was Andrew Lorenzen ’22 for the essay...
Shoshana SwellPerforming and Media Arts and Information Science majorWhat are some highlights of your involvement in PMA?Discovering ways I wanted to use film to impact the world in my classes and projects. Directing a play in Fall 2019. Bringing a screenplay I wrote to a class setting in Aoise Stratford’s class, which inspired future work to...
Nathan RevorUrban and Regional Studies major, Film and Architecture minorWhat are some highlights of your involvement in PMA?Out of all the classes I took, the film ones always had the best discussions. The conversations that came out of watching a singular film as a group could cover everything from history to craftsmanship to sexuality to...
Business Insider spoke with Samantha Sheppard, an assistant film professor at Cornell University with an academic focus on Black cultural production and African American cinema, about how films can help people understand anti-racism.Read the full article.
Madeleine GrayPerforming and Media Arts and English majorWhat are some highlights of your involvement in PMA?Working in the Box Office for Julie Tibbits and in the Costume Shop for Lisa Boquist (truly the best bosses anyone can ask for), putting up a workshop of my thesis with an amazing creative team and cast, and getting a second family in...
Olivia SartoriusInformation Science major, Theatre minorWhat are some highlights of your involvement in PMA?I really enjoyed taking Intro to Acting my sophomore year—I learned a lot more than I expected and it was the highlight of my week.What are your favorite memories of PMA?I loved helping with the Locally Grown Dance show—I helped the...
Hannah LuchsCommunication major, Media Studies and Jewish Studies minorWhat are some highlights of your involvement in PMA?The opportunity to be one of the first students in Cornell’s history to graduate with a minor in Media Studies is so special. I can’t wait to see how this minor grows in the future!What are your favorite memories of PMA?...