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The Department of Performing and Media Arts is a nexus of rigorous thinking, imagination, artistic craft, and entertainment. On Giving Day, your gift of any size helps support PMA initiatives such as:Bringing in directors, actors, writers, producers, choreographers, and more as guest artists and guest speakers for workshops, master classes,...
Time to realize your theatrical imagination!The Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA, formerly AGiT) is presenting the 8th annual 10-Minute Play Festival October 1–3, 2020, at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Submissions are now open for the festival for Cornell University undergraduate and graduate students.The...
See the show and ride TCAT for free!*Purchase a ticket for any performance of Locally Grown Dance (March 5–7) at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. On the night of the performance, show your ticket or online ticket confirmation to the TCAT bus driver for complimentary transportation from the Ithaca Commons to the Schwartz Center and...
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 (...
Technique classes and lecture are free and open to the public.AfroDabke Dance Classes February 26–March 5MW 4:50–6:20 p.m.TR 2:55–4:10 p.m. & 4:50–6:20 p.m.Room 320, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsDrop-ins welcome; attend one technique class or several!Lecture: "Art under Conditions of Oppression"March 2, 12–1:30 p.m.Film...
Sanna Sharp, writing for Medium, sought to find the most innovative courses taught at top universities across the country. After pouring through dozens of 2019–20 course catalogs, Sharp compiled her top 17 choices: three of which come from Cornell University's Department of Performing and Media Arts.Laughter, instructed by Dr. Sara Warner and Dr...
When: Thursday, February 27Workshop: 1:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.Presentation/Talk: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Where: SB23, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsAja and Kaelan Selbach-Broad are twin filmmakers originally from southern Vermont, currently based out of central New York. After starting their own freelance production company Broad Brothers...
When: Tuesday, March 10, 4:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsGuinevere Turner wrote, produced, and starred in Go Fish (premiere Sundance Film Festival 1994) and has collaborated with director Mary Harron to write the films American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, and the 2019 film Charlie Says, about the women...
Peter Novak, chair and co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program at the University of San Francisco, created and directed the groundbreaking production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in American Sign Language (ASL).Expressing the complex rhymes, puns, and rhythms of Shakespeare’s words in the visual language of American Sign...
Attention all student filmmakers!The 7th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented students for this year's competition. Selected films will be screened at the Centrally Isolated Film Festival on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY, on April 17 & 18, 2020. Cash prizes of $200 per category will...
Join us on January 25, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. for Festival24, a free evening of performances in the Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Festival24 features an array of various original artistic works written, directed, rehearsed, and performed by students in just 24 hours!Email festival24@cornell.edu for more information or to...
January 27, 2020 • starting at 7:00 p.m.Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCallbacks will be held January 28–30Go to bit.ly/PMAauditions to sign up via the online call board.SLTCStudent Lab Theatre CompanyPMA 1670Instructor: David FeldshuhSpring 2020 semesterThe Netherby Jennifer Haleydirected by Bryan Hagelin ’20...
Stage CrewPMA 1610/2610January 21, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.Flex TheatreSchwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCome and participate in the making of theatre and dance with the Department of Performing and Media Arts!Learn carpentry, painting, electrics, and costume construction, or work behind the scenes on stage crew, as a dresser, or as a board...
Harvey Young MA '00, PhD '04, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, is featured in BU's series "Office Artifacts." In the article, Young shares interesting items on display in his office, ranging from provocative historical artifacts to pop-culture memorabilia.Read the article on BU Today.
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...
This year’s performances of “Mini Locally Grown Dance” (MLGD), December 5–7 from Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), feature nine pieces choreographed by Cornell students, faculty, and guest artists.The annual concert, directed by PMA senior lecturer Byron Suber, gives dance faculty the opportunity to present...
In episode 27 of the PMA Podcast, The Next Storm (November 15–23, 2019) producer Sara Warner, Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, delves into the history behind the play. Learn about Living Newspapers, a mode of theatre borne from the New Deal legislation of the Great Depression;...
When: Thursday, December 5, 4:30 p.m.Where: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsClaire Roberson ‘15 is a Los Angeles-based actor and educator who graduated from UC San Diego’s MFA acting program. Claire received her BA in Literature and Performing and Media Arts (PMA) from Cornell University in 2015, and most recently worked as an...
In episode 26 of the PMA Podcast, Lindsey White and Christopher Christensen meet with Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting Professor Rhodessa Jones and assistant director Allen Porterie '20 to discuss the upcoming play The Next Storm (November 15–23), a community-based climate-change play by Civic Ensemble, Cornell's Department of Performing...
When: Tuesday, November 12, 4:30 p.m.Where: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsThe Business of Broadway: How Musicals are Made with speakers Erica Rotstein and Dana M. Lerner '14Each new show is like its own startup and the lead producer is its CEO. Following the moment of inspiration, there is no one blueprint or roadmap to...
When: Friday, November 15, 4:00 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsAcademy Award–nominated writer Andrea Berloff ‘95 marked her directorial debut this year with her film, The Kitchen, a crime drama starring Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Elizabeth Moss. Berloff previously co-wrote the critically acclaimed...
When: Wednesday, November 6, 5:00 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsDo 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, new TV series are launched...
In 2017, Madeleine Gray ’20 conceived a solo performance piece in which she could combat stereotypes of mental illness and explore the question “Who, in the end, is really there for us?” “I felt extremely frustrated with the representations of physical and mental health that I encountered both in my personal life and in the social spaces that...
We encourage you to do so before the pre-enrollment period begins (10/30). Only declared PMA majors and minors have enrollment priority for PMA limited-enrollment classes.To declare the major or minor, you need to meet with the DUS. Professor Gainor, DUS, will hold extended office hours on 10/21 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in Schwartz 422. Other hours...
A Conversation with Actors Shannon Tyo and Cory Censoprano(The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up)Thursday, October 24, 20191:25–2:40 p.m.Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsPlease join Professor Christine Balance and her “Intro to Asian American Performance” class (PMA 2621) for a conversation with class guest lecturers, actors...