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Department of Performing and Media Arts Position OpeningVisiting Assistant ProfessorCornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts seeks a visiting assistant professor of cinema and media studies in a two-year position beginning on July 1, 2018. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative scholar with a wide range of interests,...
When: Tuesday, November 28 at 7pmWhere: Film Forum, Schwartz CenterJoin us for an HD broadcast of the Tony Award-winning play Indecent on PBS Great Performances on Tuesday, November 28 at 7pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Paula Vogel (CU MA 1976; PhD 2016), Indecent...
When: Thursday, November 16 at 5pmWhere: Film Forum, Schwartz CenterCornell theater studies alumna Claire Conceison (PhD '00) returns to campus this Thursday to give a lively presentation about China's leading director and theater "badass" Meng Jinghui.The lecture at 5pm in the Film Forum at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts is in English...
The John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines awarded Jayme Kilburn an honorable mention for the James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize. The Slevin Prize honors excellent assignment sequences used in first-year writing seminars. Kilburn, a PhD student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), won honorable mention...
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces Sesame Street, offered Monique Hall ‘14 a creative development deal following her participation in its inaugural Writers’ Room fellowship.As part of the development deal, Hall has the opportunity to pitch a concept for a television show or digital series and will continue to receive...
BUY TICKETSListen to Hamlet Wakes Up Late (November 10–18) adapter/director and PMA assistant professor Rebekah Maggor and composer Kinan Abou-afach talk about the play with WHCU Talk Radio's Lee Rayburn.In this biting political satire of Shakespeare's tragedy by renowned Syrian poet and playwright Mamduh Adwan, Hamlet is a narcissistic prince,...
BUY TICKETSIn episode 12 of the PMA podcast, Hamlet Wakes Up Late (November 10–18) adapter/director and PMA assistant professor Rebekah Maggor and cast members Vanessa Okoyeh ("Polonius") and Christopher Morales ("Fortinbras") chat with host Christopher Christensen.
When: Tuesday, November 14, 4:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsTreaAndrea Russworm (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) will speak on "The Bits and Bytes of Blackness: On Race, Simulation, and Digital Games" on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts....
When: Monday, November 13, beginning at 7:00 p.m.Where: Flex Theatre, Schwartz CenterOpen to all Cornell faculty, staff & students!AUDITIONS will take place on Monday, November 13, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the following:Current | Corrienteby Irving Torres-Lopez ‘18 and directed by Jazlin Gomez MPA '...
In light of recent, disturbing events on the Cornell campus and elsewhere in the world, the members of PMA come together to condemn acts of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice and the hateful ideas that lie behind them.We commit to justice and equity as core values and to the diversification and inclusiveness of our community....
When: Thursday, November 9 at 12pmWhere: Carl Becker House, Kramnick Seminar Room (Becker G32)Lunch will be provided.For this talk, composer Kinan Abou-afach will discuss his music’s journey from Syria to the United States, as a cellist, oudist, and composer. He will share selections from his compositions and explore how his background in...
Television Writer/Producer Daphne Pollon (Murphy Brown, Sullivan and Son) will give an open Q&A discussion on Monday, November 13 at 4:30pm in 124 Reading Room, Schwartz Center. This talk is part of Cornell PMA's Professional Directions Speaker Series and is free and open to the public.Pollon is a prolific Writer-Producer of television comedy...
Theater Critic and Dramaturg Helen Shaw (NYU) will give an open Q&A discussion on Friday, November 10 at 4:30pm in Room 124, Schwartz Center. This talk is part of Cornell PMA's Professional Directions Speaker Series and is free and open to the public.Shaw is known for both her brilliant criticism of theatrical productions in the U.S. and...
Jazz Classes with Tucker DavisOpen to all!November 3, 2017 - Contemporary JazzNovember 10, 2017 - Musical Theatre JazzNovember 17, 2017 - Commercial JazzAll classes will be held from 2:30 - 4pm in 320 Schwartz Center, 430 College Avenue, Ithaca.Tucker Davis is a full time faculty member at Ithaca College in the Department of Theatre Arts,...
When: Thursday, November 2 at 5:30pmWhere: 132 Goldwin Smith HallCarlos Andrés Gómez (http://carloslive.com/), award-winning poet, actor, speaker, and writer from New York City will be doing a public performance onTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 @ 5:30 PMPOST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION: 164 KLARMAN HALLA former social worker and public school teacher,...
When: Wednesday, October 25 at 6pmWhere: Schwartz Center Reading Room, 124Ever wanted to learn about what it was like working in the entertainment industry? Interested in a career in film, but don't know where to start? Look no further than Cornell in Hollywood, a student and alumni-run organization dedicated to helping find internships and...
When: Wednesday, October 25 at 5pmWhere: 132 Goldwin Smith HallAward-winning Indigenous scholar, poet and memoirist Deborah Miranda and Chicano poet Eduardo Corral will read from their works following with a Q & A on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 5pm in 132 Goldwin Smith Hall.This event is presented by Minority, Indigenous, Third World...
A biting political satire by Syrian poet & playwright Mamduh Adwan, Hamlet Wakes Up Late makes its English premiere November 10 at the Schwartz Center!In Hamlet Wakes Up Late, Hamlet is a narcissistic prince, blissfully unaware of his people's bleak reality. Distracted by drink and theatre rehearsals, Hamlet fails to notice the rise of a...
A dark comedy about family, faith, and love!Bad Jews tells the story of three cousins who, the night after their grandfather’s funeral, are forced to share their family’s Upper West Side apartment. In the face of a family heirloom with no designated heir, who will prove to be the most deserving and most “Jewish” owner of Poppy’s chai necklace?...
When: Thursday, October 26 at 4:30pmWhere: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsKatherine Sender (University of Michigan) will give the talk, "Selling Sex: Mediating Sexual Identifications and Erotica in Transnational Contexts" on Thursday, Octboer 26 at 4:30pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.How do...
The weekly meetings of the Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) always begin and end with an outpouring of goodwill, perhaps remarkable considering the setting. The members of the ensemble are tremendously open, emotionally and intellectually. Shoulder bumps and warm handshakes are exchanged, and gratitude is freely offered. Following the...
When: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 from 12-1pmWhere: Green Room, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCornell PMA will host Cheri Magid (New York University) in conversation on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 from 12-1pm in the Green Room, Schwartz Center.This event is part of the Professional Directions Speaker Series and is free and open to the...
When: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4:30pmWhere: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us on Thursday, October 19, 2017 for the first talk in the series, Voices & Visions in Black Media, as Kristen Warner (University of Alabama) speaks on "Considering Blackness in a Time of Plastic Representation" at 4:30pm in the Film...
When: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4:30pmWhere: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a Q&A Discussion with Cornell alumna Beth Anderson (Audible.com) on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4:30pm in the Green Room, Schwartz Center.Beth Anderson '80 is the executive vice president and publisher at Audible, the world’s...
When: Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 4:30pmWhere: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a Q&A with director/writer Stacie Passon (Transparent, The Affair, The Path).This event is part of the Professional Directions speaker series and is free and open to the public.The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts is...