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A free screening of the award-winning documentary Lampedusa in Winter will be shown on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. at Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall. Director Jakob Brossmann and filmmaker Stefania Schenk Vitale will be in attendance.Lampedusa in Winter is set on the Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea that is at the...
When: Thursday, April 20, 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.Where: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsIn his forthcoming book, Diversión: Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America, author Albert Sergio Laguna (Yale University) probes the dramatic demographic and cultural shifts that have taken place within the Cuban diaspora in the last 20 years...
When: Friday, April 28, 4:00 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a Q&A discussion with producer Rick Schwartz. Schwartz's credits include Black Swan, The Departed, Gangs of New York, and The Others. He is also the Executive Producer of TV's Lip Sync Battle. This event is part of the Professional...
When: Tuesday, April 18, beginning at 8:00 p.m.Where: Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsAuditions are open to all Cornell students, faculty, and staff.Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Beth MillesPlease prepare a 1-minute monologue. If you identify as a singer, please also prepare to sing 8–16 bars of a...
By Kirsten GreenidgeDirected by Sarah K. ChalmersWhen: April 28–29 & May 5–6, 7:30 p.m.; May 6, 2:00 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSBaltimore tells the story of Shelby Wilson, an African-American resident adviser for a group of freshmen at a college in New England. When a racist caricature...
When: Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 21, at 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, April 22, at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Where: Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETS ($5)A thrilling family drama set in Tanzania, Life Sentence (Inhibited) begins when Baba Grace decides to marry off his eldest daughter, Grace,...
Dana M. Lerner ‘14 grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. She was very involved during her time at Cornell University, inside the Department of Performing and Media Arts and out. She participated in her sorority, the women’s club hockey team, and Cornell Hillel.Lerner did everything she could to get the most out of her time at Cornell. Despite being a...
Listed below are some of the new and highlighted fall 2017 course offerings from the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Film Festival Production Lab (PMA 2510)Instructor: Sabine HaenniCourse Time: TBALearn the skills necessary to produce/curate/mount a film festival, from planning to execution. The Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF...
When: April 14 at 4:30 p.m. and April 15 at 2:00 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsFREE ADMISSIONThe 4th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) will showcase short films created by students from the central and upstate New York region. This year’s festival will be held April 14 and 15 at Cornell’s Schwartz...
In part 2, host Chris Christensen talks with Two Truths and Allie (March 16–18) cast members Jonah Hirst, Leo Taylor, Will Wallace, Jamie Dye, and Emmett Milliken. In part 3, Joshua Bastian Cole, playwright and co-director, returns to the studio, this time joined by co-director Sam Blake. BUY TICKETSListen to part 1
What difference can today make?Giving Day is a day to fuel dreams, open doors, create opportunities, and inspire action. Today, you get to do that with tens of thousands of other Cornellians and their friends.Let us show the world what we can do together. With your gift on Pi(e) Day, our reach is infinite and everyone gets the biggest slice....
Host Chris Christensen interviews PMA PhD student Joshua Bastian Cole, playwright and co-director of the upcoming Schwartz Center production of Two Truths and Allie (March 16–18). The two discuss doppelgangers, catfishing, the boyfriend-twin phenomenon, and how those concepts and more relate to the trans play. BUY TICKETSListen to parts 2 &...
When: March 23, 24 & 25, 7:30 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSCaptured Spaces, our spring Locally Grown Dance Festival, runs March 23–25 at 7:30 p.m. in the grand Schwartz Center Kiplinger Theatre. The dance concert comprises three works that capture the imagination of dance in differently...
When: March 16 at 7:30 p.m., March 17 at 5:00 p.m., and March 18 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSThe doppelganger mythology brings to mind unwelcome spirits, paranormal look-alikes, and evil twins. For his new play Two Truths and Allie (March 16–18, Black Box Theatre,...
The AGIT Theater Company and Department of Performing and Media Arts invite undergraduate and graduate students to submit 10 Minute Plays. The 2017 festival explores the theme of Unbound. Selected plays will be developed and produced in the Schwartz Center Black Box in Fall 2017.Submissions due: March 13, 2017Send submissions/questions to ...
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 (...
Cornell plans to vastly redesign Schwartz Plaza in Collegetown — complete with benches, tables and chairs — in time for the fall semester, when open seats at Collegetown Bagels across the street are a hard find.“We’ve been talking about this project for probably close to five or six years,” David Cutter ’85, campus landscape architect, told The...
In the final installment of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11) podcasts, host Chris Christensen chats with cast members Elana Valastro (Gin) and Jack Press (Dalton). The two, who play mother and teenage son in Trestle, discuss the family dynamic and crushed American dreams in the Depression-era setting of the play.BUY TICKETSListen to...
When: Friday, March 10, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCornell PMA alumni will participate in the TV, Film & Theatre Internships Panel on Friday, March 10. Discussion topics include What Makes a Good Internship, Where to Find Them, How to Get Them, What to Do When You Graduate, and How to Move to...
Austin Bunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, is nominated for an Audio Publishers Association Audie® Award for his short-story collection The Brink: Stories (published by Blunder Woman Productions via ACX). The audiobook, narrated by Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Ralph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael...
When: March 6 at 4:45 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a reading and panel discussion of Rebekah Maggor's new book, Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution on Monday, March 6, 2017, at 4:45 p.m. in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.The ten plays in this collection, co-...
BUY TICKETSListen to The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11) director, PMA doctoral candidate Nick Fesette, discuss the play with WHCU Talk Radio's Lee Rayburn.https://soundcloud.com/whcu-radio/20170223nickfesette Every day after school in rural Kentucky, working-class teens Dalton Chance and Pace Creagan meet beneath the railway bridge at...
In this second installment of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11) podcasts, host Chris Christensen chats with cast members Elise Czuchna (Pace), Irving Torres (Dray), and Sam Morrison (Chas). The cast talk about their characters, their connections to the story, and how the Depression-era setting and themes are relevant today.BUY TICKETS...
The Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers in central and upstate New York for the annual competition. The fee is $10 and submissions will be accepted until March 1, 2017.For complete details on the competition, including a submission checklist, please visit the official CIFF website at pma...
Host Chris Christensen interviews PMA PhD candidate Nick Fesette, director of the upcoming Schwartz Center production of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11), to discuss the play. BUY TICKETSListen to part 2Listen to part 3