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COMMENCEMENT 20 1

June 10, 2016

C o m m e n c e m e n t P r o g r a m PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM Demitra Alexis Pace Department of Theater Undergraduate

WELCOME Teri Schwartz Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and

CLASS OF 2016 STUDENT REMARKS Nikki Lorraine D’Aprix Department of Theater Undergraduate

Crystal Alexandria Hatch Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Undergraduate

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Channing Dungey President, ABC Entertainment

PRESENTATION OF 2016 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD IN THEATER Robert L. Freedman Dramatist and Screenwriter

PRESENTATION OF 2016 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD IN FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA Gina Prince-Bythewood Writer, Director, Producer

CONFERRAL OF THE DEGREES CLASS OF 2016 DEPARTMENT OF THEATER MUSICAL PERFORMANCE “You’ve Got a Friend” Music and Lyrics by Carole King Performed by Rebecca Nova Birstock, Kyle Michael Compton, Margaret Jane Darago, Catriona Joelle Fray, Tanner John Haynes, Miki Dawn Holmes, Elan Jonah Kramer, Demitra Alexis Pace, Laura Louise Richardson, Emily Goodwin Zetterberg

A L M A M A T E R Tanner John Haynes Department of Theater Undergraduate

FINAL REMARKS Teri Schwartz

RECESSIONAL L e t t e r F r o m T h e P r e s i d e n t

Janet Napolitano University of President

Dear Graduates:

Warmest congratulations and good wishes to the Class of 2016, and to their families and on Commencement Day 2016! Although one door is closing, innumerable others are opening before you, just waiting for you to step through them. Never before in our nation’s history have college graduates had more opportunities to contribute to the common good than now. Whether it be in the community, private industry or public service, to name but a few, your UC education and experiences have provided you with the knowledge and abilities to make a difference in the lives of many others. As Robert F. Kennedy noted, “The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”

On this triumphal day, I challenge you to commit your newly earned UCLA degree and all that you have learned to bring hope, compassion and healing to a troubled world. You can shape the future and, from what I know of our graduates, if you put your mind to doing just that, the future will be a bright and hopeful one. Go Bruins — we know you’ll make us proud whatever door you choose!

Most sincerely,

Janet Napolitano President L e t t e r F r o m T h e C h a n c e ll o r

Gene Block UCLA

Dear UCLA Graduate:

Congratulations! Today’s Commencement is a joyful day for each of you and your families, a of all that you have accomplished in your time at UCLA. A UCLA degree is highly respected and will serve you well in whatever you choose to do in the future.

As a graduate of UCLA, you are now counted among thousands of your fellow alumni who are exemplary leaders and tireless innovators dedicated to improving lives here at home and around the world. I encourage you to further the Bruin legacy of excellence and service, with the spirit of optimism that makes UCLA a special place. We look forward to what your future holds and will take great pride in your accomplishments.

Thank you for the many contributions you have made to our campus that have advanced our mission of education, research and service to California and beyond. You and your fellow students have enriched me personally, providing fresh perspectives and insights.

Your relationship with UCLA will continue throughout your life. I hope that you will take full advantage of the many resources available to our alumni and that you will remain engaged with our campus. Remember that you are one of UCLA’s best advocates and ambassadors. You are always welcome here.

Today is special, unlike any other day in your life. Enjoy this time with your family and friends in memorable ways. I am enormously proud of you, and I wish you a lifetime of fulfillment and happiness.

With very best wishes,

Gene D. Block Chancellor L e t t e r F r o m T h e D e a n

Teri Schwartz Dean, School of Theater, Film and Television

Dear Class of 2016,

Congratulations on this auspicious culmination of your academic career with us at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

As your Dean, it makes me extremely proud to have witnessed your remarkable talent and dedication to your creative work and research. It has been thrilling to see how much you have achieved during your time here with us at UCLA TFT. On behalf of the faculty and staff, please allow me to extend our deepest respect and admiration for your outstanding accomplishments, and for having reached this landmark day — your graduation.

As the next generation of artists, scholars and industry leaders, you are in a very fortunate position: You have the great potential to make a difference in the world through the power of story as expressed across the entire spectrum of entertainment and performing arts. Through the education and real-world experiences you have received as a result of your time at UCLA TFT, you now have the artistry, skills and thought leadership to not only delight and entertain, but to illuminate the human spirit and to help us make sense of our lives and the world around us.

We hope that you actively stay connected not only to your alma mater as the newest members of our amazing UCLA TFT alumni community, but to each other as you build dynamic and profound careers throughout the entertainment and performing arts communities. Use your successes to make a difference in the world and pay it forward by helping the next generation of new alumni who will one day join you in this distinguished network of artists, scholars and industry leaders.

I am honored to use this celebratory occasion to wish each of you the very best in the years ahead. I am convinced that you will use your wonderful, diverse voices to enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world.

Congratulations, once again, Class of 2016! All of us at UCLA TFT are very proud and excited for each of you!

Warmest good wishes,

Teri Schwartz Dean UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television C o m m e n c e m e n t S p e a k e r

Channing Dungey President, ABC Entertainment

C hanning Dungey was named president, ABC Entertainment, in February 2016. In this role she has oversight of all development, programming, marketing and scheduling operations for the ABC Television Network.

Dungey most recently served as executive vice president, Drama Development, Movies & Miniseries, ABC Entertainment Group, where she oversaw the development and production of all drama pilots, movies and miniseries, and the launch of new series for ABC Entertainment. Serving in that role since 2013, she developed and launched dozens of series including Scandal, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., How to Get Away With Murder, American Crime, Once Upon a Time and Secrets and Lies.

Previously, Dungey was vice president, drama development, ABC Studios. In that role she was responsible for the development and acquisition of drama programming. Her slate of programming included the award-winning and critically acclaimed ABC show Private Practice, CBS’s long-running drama Criminal Minds, the CW’s Reaper and Lifetime’s highest- rated series, Army Wives. Dungey joined ABC Studios in the summer of 2004.

Dungey began her successful career in entertainment as a development assistant for Davis Entertainment at 20th Century Fox. She then became story editor at Steamroller Productions, where she worked on the development and production of films such as Under Siege and On Deadly Ground. Following that, she joined Warner Bros. as a production executive, where she helped develop and supervise a diverse range of commercially successful, critically acclaimed films, including Bridges of Madison County, Heat, The Matrix, Twister, Devil’s Advocate, , Conspiracy Theory, Rosewood, Space Jam and Practical Magic.

In the spring of 1998, Dungey became senior vice president at Material, a film production with a first look deal at Warner Bros., which was responsible for 2000’s Red Planet as well as 2002’s remake of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. After being named president in 2001, Dungey co-produced Queen of the Damned, adapted from the best-selling novel by Anne Rice, and Showtime, starring , Eddie Murphy and Rene Russo; and The Big Bounce, based on an novel.

Dungey, who graduated magna cum laude from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, is a founding member of the Step Up Women’s Network, a national non-profit membership organization dedicated to strengthening community resources for women and girls. She also teaches the graduate-level course “Developing the Drama ” at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. D istinguished A l u m n i A w a r d i n T h e a t e r

Robert L. Freedman Dramatist and Screenwriter

Robert L. Freedman won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Book of a Musical for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the 2014 Best Musical Tony winner. He was also nominated for a Tony for Best Score with composer and co-lyricist Steven Lutvak, with whom he shared the 2014 for Best Lyrics, a 2015 Grammy nomination, the 2006 Kleban Award and a 2006 Fred Ebb Award.

For his television work, Freedman won the Writers Guild Award for HBO’s A Deadly Secret, a drama about teenage suicide, and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild Award for the miniseries Life With : Me and My Shadows. His other teleplays include ’s Cinderella (Writers Guild nomination), What Makes a Family, a finalist about gay adoption; What Love Sees, about a blind couple raising a family (Silver Plaque, International Television Festival); and the true-crime dramas Honor Thy Mother (Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America); Murder in the Hamptons; The Pastor’s Wife; Woman With a Past; and the miniseries In the Best of Families (aka Bitter Blood).

Freedman is currently writing a film for HBO set in the Great Depression, produced and directed by Robert Redford for Sundance Productions, and is embarking on a new musical with composer Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens). A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is currently on a National Tour throughout the and Canada. He is co-author, with Faye Greenberg, of the play The Beast of Broadway: The Life and Times of David Merrick, and book writer and lyricist for the musical Grand Duchy, with composer John Bayless.

Freedman has a B.A. in theater from the UCLA College of Fine Arts (now the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television), and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing and from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was recently honored with the Tisch Big Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatrical Arts.

Freedman has taught screenwriting at NYU and USC. He is married to Jean Kauffman, another proud UCLA TFT graduate. Their son, Max Freedman, is a writer, educator and community activist in . D istinguished A l u m n i A w a r d i n F i l m , T e l e v i s i o n a n d D i g i t a l M e d i a

Gina Prince-Bythewood Writer, Director and Producer

Filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood wrote and directed the widely acclaimed feature film Love & Basketball, which premiered at the 2000 . Prince- Bythewood won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and a Humanitas Prize for her work on the film. She followed that success with the HBO film Disappearing Acts.

In 2008, she wrote and directed the celebrated adaptation of the best-selling novel The Secret Life of Bees. The all-star cast included , , Paul Bettany, , and . The film won two People’s Choice Awards and two NAACP Image Awards.

Her third feature, Beyond the Lights, was released in 2014 and garnered an Oscar nomination for best song. The love story, set in the music world, stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, , Minnie Driver and Danny Glover. It received rave reviews and landed on a number of top critics “Best of 2014” lists including , and Vulture.

Prince-Bythewood studied at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where she received the Scholarship and the Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship. Upon her graduation, she was hired as a writer on the hit NBC sitcom A Different World. She continued to write and produce for network television series such as the WB’s Felicity, Fox’s South Central and NBC’s Sweet Justice before making the transition to directing.

Her television directorial debut was the CBS Schoolbreak Special What About Your Friends, which earned Prince-Bythewood an NAACP Image Award for Best Children’s Special and two Emmy nominations for writing and directing. She also won a Community Service Emmy Award for her work with BET’s Rap-It-Up campaign.

Prince-Bythewood, along with her husband Reggie Rock Bythewood, is currently writing, directing and producing Shots Fired, a 10-hour special event series for Fox, which will air in Spring 2017. She will follow that with the film adaptation of the searing novel An Untamed State for Fox Searchlight, which she is co-writing with celebrated author Roxane Gay, and directing.

Prince-Bythewood is proud to fund a scholarship for African American students enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s film program. She resides in Southern California with Reggie and their amazing sons Cassius and Toussaint. CHANCELLOR’S MARSHALS

Recognized for outstanding academic achievement and identified by the Blue and Gold Fourragere:

Theater Nikki Lorraine D’Aprix Margaret Jane Darago

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Film, Television and Digital Media Clinton-Khile Brägger Crystal Alexandria Hatch

Theater

DEGREE CANDIDATES

Gwyneth Jane Shanks Performing the Museum: Displaying Gender and Archiving Labor, from Performance Art to Theater

Anndretta Lyle Wilson Labor, Pleasure, and Possession in Transnational Black Performance

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Film, Television and Digital Media

DEGREE CONFERRED

Andrew Phillip Young “We are all Rwandans:” Imagining the Post-Genocidal Nation Across Media

DEGREE CANDIDATES Benjamin Nelson Sampson Hollywood Meets ‘Holywood:’ The Modern Intersection of Hollywood and Christian Filmmaking

Philip Joseph Wagner Research, Rhetoric, and the Cinematic Events of Cecil B. DeMille

MASTER OF FINE ARTS

Theater

DEGREES CONFERRED Anastasia Bonaccorso Israel Lopez Roshni Shukla Darcie Elise Crager Zuri Adele Ray-Alladice Miebaka Opuiyo Yohannes Marguerite Sarfaty French DEGREE CANDIDATES

Adam Guinn Alonso Ning Ji Jennifer Erin Davis Hye Sun Lee Jeanette Godoy Ji Young Lee Sachandra Grandoit Ruoxuan Li Brendan Hartnett Ginerva Lombardo Molly Ann Irelan Gelareh Soofi Siavish Yuki Izumihara u

Film, Television and Digital Media

DEGREES CONFERRED

Christopher Borey Lauren Inga Krieger Justin Perkinson Andre Gerner Matthew Maio Matt Russak Tajreen Hedayet Zachary Daniel Marion Laurie Russman Manhea Joey Kim Kimberly Jo Mills Sandra A. Stenzel David Kirkeby

DEGREE CANDIDATES

Dominic Abeyta Jessica Doris Dube Olufunke Abiola Moses Ariane Marcella Ackerberg Aaron Ture Edmonds Heather Paul Mouhamed E. Adeeb Fiordalisa Luz Fabian Benjamin Rieder Tenaya Anue Safiya Marie Farquharson Shoshana Sachidhanandam Gayatri Everitt Bajpai Stasia Mei Yun Fong Stephanie L. Sandoval Lean Evan Alexander Boyd Ball Omid Ghaffarian Graciela Sarabia Indira Justine Basu Zachary Hamby Marta Savina Eric Edward Boshart Leah Rae Hulgin Ronak Shah Zoe Renee Bower Samuel Maxim Icklow Masaya Tajika Wyatt Cain Kevin Michael Karch Teodora Totoiu Merlin Emrys Camozzi Andrew K. Knapp Eric Vennemeyer Juanita Cepero Londono Logan James Knight Patrick Durand Waldrop Lucas Chahuneau Candice Rose Knutson Sara Marie White Alice Evangeline Dennard Balbinka Kamila Korzeniowska Zehao Xue James Robert Domachowske Steven Liang Joshua Eric Yunis Lawrence T. Christian Donovan Zachary Daniel Marion

Film, Television and Digital Media

DEGREE CANDIDATES Krista Shanita Jones Grace Hyunju Jung Hang Li Briana Christa Lynn McKoy BACHELOR OF ARTS

Theater

DEGREES CONFERRED

Justin Ryan Brown Max Cody Ryan Coyne Anthony Giacomelli Lauren Christine Goyer Lea Margaret Guillory Eugene Alan Ko Kimberly Kottwitz Brette Suzanne O’Brien* Jack Matthew Shulruff Robert James Watson

DEGREE CANDIDATES

Brigid Peirce Hornig Abreu† Madai Antunes-Trujillo Dashawn Racquel Barnes Rebecca Nova Birstock Nicholas James Brunner Jensen Steele Chambers Jennifer J. Chiang Aspen Autumn Cole Kyle Michael Compton Nikki Lorraine D’Aprix† Margaret Jane Darago† Emma Kristina Degerstedt Isabel Marie Espy Hannah Caitlin Ferrell Tanya Maria Flynn Catriona Joelle Fray Lila Scarborough Gavares Angela Giovann Giarratana Jordan Gabriella Gilman Tanner John Haynes Miki Dawn Holmes Nada Jawad Andrew Eric Klein Elan Jonah Kramer† Julie Anna Lanctot† Spencer William Lichtman Caroline Ellen Mack

* magna cum laude † Latin Honors (Spring or Summer 2016 candidates whose current GPA qualifies them for Latin Honors. Level of honors is determined by final GPA.) BACHELOR OF ARTS (continued)

Theater

DEGREE CANDIDATES (continued) Chad Patrick Mata Danny DT Nguyen Rebecca Rose Noble† Demitra Alexis Pace Katerina Jones Pagsolingan Natasha Parkin Ella R. Pravetz Joseph Stephen Price Laura Louise Richardson Misha Tucker Riley Mark Joseph Royston† Runge Clara Ruth Shader-Seave† Kelsey Smith Rowan Irene Smith Savannah Rose Van Der Keyl Eric Allen Watkins Jodi Emmaline Wofford Emily Goodwin Zetterberg

† Latin Honors (Spring or Summer 2016 candidates whose current GPA qualifies them for Latin Honors. Level of honors is determined by final GPA.) BACHELOR OF ARTS (continued)

Film, Television and Digital Media

DEGREE CONFERRED

Hilarie Katharine Roope •

DEGREE CANDIDATES Iman Bahar Ahad Tamar Christina Baker Conner Joseph Bell Clinton-Khile Brägger† Matthew Royce Camello Abram Paul Cerda Beau Daniel Clarke Miranda Isabelle Davies Alexander Bernard Dekoning Jackson Hannibal DeLoach Arno Alec Ekmekji Patrick Emillo Fontenette Maggie Elizabeth Galle† Kadriya Gizatullina† Crystal Alexandria Hatch† Valbona Jashari† Rachel Caitlin Kivlahan† Silvia Lara Jacob Whatley Manoff Theodore Michael Mugerian Victor Moses Navarro† Pernell Asistores Quilon Emmanuel Ramos Barajas Aleksandra Rastovic Jasmine Diosa Rodriguez Shawn-Noel Leonen Semana Ashlyn Nicolette Thomas Haohao Yan Shirley Zhou† Marvin Zhu

• summa cum laude † Latin Honors (Spring or Summer 2016 candidates whose current GPA qualifies them for Latin Honors. Level of honors is determined by final GPA.) UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION LEADERSHIP Teri Schwartz, Dean Barbara Boyle, Associate Dean, Entrepreneurship and Special Initiatives Kathleen McHugh, Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Edit E. Villarreal, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Richard Walter, Associate Dean, Student Affairs Jeff Burke, Assistant Dean, Technology and Innovation Susan Marcano, Assistant Dean FACULTY 2015-16 DEPARTMENT OF THEATER

CHAIR VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Brian Kite Cynthia Ettinger PROFESSORS Ellen Lauren J.Ed Araiza Tim Robbins Sue-Ellen Case VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Myung Hee Cho Silvia Baker Hanay L. Geiogamah Marek Probosz Michael Hackett SR. LECTURER SOE EMERITUS Neil Peter Jampolis Thomas J. Orth Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko Brian Kite LECTURERS Miwon Kwon Vikas Adam Deborah Nadoolman Landis Cheryl Baxter Rich Rose Robert Beltran Dominic Taylor Andrew Borba José Luis Valenzuela Scott Brick Edit E. Villarreal Elizabeth Brohm Hanrahan Amy Chaffee ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Sara Ryung Clement Lucy Burns Andrew Dalzell Sean Metzger Perry Daniel Thomas O’Connor Michael Donovan Joseph M. Olivieri Kitty Doris-Bates ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Mary Jo DuPrey Michelle Liu Carriger Joshua Epstein Sylvan Oswald Sharna Fabiano Marike Splint Anthony Fanning ADJUNCT PROFESSORS Tony Fitzgerald F. Nicholas Gunn Gina De Domenico Flanagan Peggy Hickey John Garofalo Lainie Kazan David Gorshein Areum Jeong ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Christine Kellogg Dan T. Belzer Jessica Kubzansky Marilyn Fox Michael Laskin Linda Kerns Victoria Lavan Jeremy L. Mann Kimberly Lyons Edward Monaghan Sheldon Markham Judith Moreland Leanora Martino Jean-Louis Rodrigue AJ Meijer April Shawhan Kaitlyn Pietras Paul M. Wagar Chantal Rodriguez ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Jane Ruhm Raquel Barreto Pablo Santiago-Brandwein Bruce Vaughn Robin Schneider Nathan Schroeder VISITING PROFESSOR Angela Scott Robert Beltran Peter Shushtari DEPARTMENT OF THEATER (continued)

PROFESSORS EMERITI PROFESSORS EMERITI (continued) Alan Armstrong William T. Wheatley John R. Cauble Margaret L. Wilbur Patricia Harter ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR Robert H. Hethmon Daniel A. Ionazzi, Jr. Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek Michael McLain ACADEMIC COORDINATORS Joanne T. McMaster Jonathan A. Burke Paul E. Girard Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR William D. Ward Jonathan A. Burke

DEPARTMENT OF FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA

INTERIM CHAIR VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Kathleen McHugh (continued) Mali Heled Kinberg PROFESSORS Eitan Mendelowitz Janet L. Bergstrom Maggie Murphy Barbara Boyle Sjoerd Oostrik John T. Caldwell Michael Puopolo Thomas F. Denove Deobrah Spera Erkki Huhtamo Kenneth Suddleson Deborah Nadoolman Landis Michele Weiss Stephen Mamber Purnima Mankekar PROFESSOR EMERITUS/DISTINGUISHED Denise R. Mann RESEARCH PROFESSOR William McDonald Gyula Gazdag Kathleen McHugh PROFESSORS EMERITI RECALL Celia L. Mercer Lew Hunter Chon A. Noriega Howard Suber Nancy Richardson Chuck Sheetz LECTURERS SOE EMERITI Becky J. Smith Harold Ackerman Richard Walter Mark McCarty ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS LECTURERS Arne Lunde Timothy T. Albaugh Fabian Wagmister Ana Lily Amirpour Marc Arneson ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Bethany Babyak Kristy Guevara-Flanagan Bill J. Barminski Allyson Nadia Field Patricia Beatts Rory Kelly Vincent M. Brook Gina Kim Robert Burgos Ellen C. Scott James Calciano Jasmine Nadua Trice David Chambers ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Julie Chambers John W. Simmons, A.S.C. Heather Collins Stephen Farber VISITING PROFESSORS Cynthia Felando Michael Colleary Joshua Feldman Peter Guber James Franco VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Alexander Franklin Channing Dungey Alan Friel James Franco Michael Friend Tim Good George Gary David Hoberman FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA (continued)

LECTURERS (continued) LECTURERS (continued) PROFESSORS EMERITI Jason Gendler Suny Behar Parker William Adams Chad Gervich Robin Pelleck Jerzy Antczak Nicholas Griffin Terry Press Nicholas K. Browne Cecilia Hall Barry Primus Marina Goldovskaya Rhonda Hammer Daniel Pyne A.P. Gonzalez Alex Hedlund Bernardo Rondeau Barbara Marks Erin Hill Mark Rosman Dan F. McLaughlin^ Charles Holland Michael Rothhaar Robert Rosen J.R. Hughto Elisabeth Seldes Vivian Sobchack David Johnson Ben Raphael Sher Peter Wollen Michael Johnson Robert Skir John W. Young Patricia Kavanaugh Karen Smalley KODAK Silvia Kratzer James Strain CINEMATOGRAPHER- Sue Kroyer John W. Sweet IN-RESIDENCE Jonathan A. Kuntz Wilm Thoben Bradford Young, ASC Neil Landau Neil Thompson Nick LaTeraza Charlotte Trachinger ACADEMIC Valerie Lettera Derick Tsai ADMINISTRATORS Ken Levine Jeanne Tyson Benjamin U. Harris Robert J. Levy Glen Vilppu Douglas A. Ward Hans-Martin Liebing Linda Voorhees ACADEMIC COORDINATOR David Macmillan Peter Weller David Dancyger David Maquiling Michael Werb Eric Marin Cormac Wibberley Beau Marks Marianne Wibberley Kathleen McInnis Glenn Williamson Jeffrey Melvoin Amy Winfrey Josh Morgan Iris Yamashita Paul Nagle John Yoon Tom Nunan Kris T. Young Deland Nuse Amotz Zakai

MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE STUDIES

CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE TO ADMINISTER PROFESSORS (continued) THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM Steve Mamber, FTVDM Ellen C. Scott, FTVDM William McDonald, FTVDM COMMITTEE TO ADMINISTER THE Chon Noriega, FTVDM INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM 2015-16 ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Janet Bergstrom, FTVDM Allyson Nadia Field, FTVDM Allyson Nadia Field, FTVDM Greg Leazer, IS Jan-Christopher Horak, Archive, FTVDM ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Greg Leazer, IS Ellen C. Scott, FTVDM Steve Mamber, FTVDM LECTURERS William McDonald, FTVDM Snowden Becker Chon Noriega, FTVDM Dino Everett Mark Quigley, Archive May Hong Haduong Ellen C. Scott, FTVDM Linda Tadic PROFESSORS PROGRAM MANAGER Janet Bergstrom, FTVDM Snowden Becker Jonathan Furner, IS

^Deceased D e a n ’ s E x e c u t i v e B o a r d

Kevin Beggs Ken Hertz, Esq. Brad Silberling Jim Berk Rick Hess Harry Sloan, Esq. Joseph A. Calabrese, Esq. Reginald Hudlin Darren Star Sanford R. Climan Philip I. Kent Bruce Vaughn Laurie Coots Charles King Gore Verbinski David A. Leveton, Esq. Paula Wagner Donald De Line Richard B. Lippin Jeffrey C. Walker Emilio Diez Barroso Kishore Lulla Elizabeth Reiko Kubota Whitney Moctesuma Esparza Frank Marshall Deborah Widener Eric Esrailian, M.D., M.P.H. Mich Mathews-Spradlin Rita Wilson Dan Fellman William E. Mitchell Richard Wolpert Peter Guber Steve Mosko Michael Wright Cecilia de Mille Presley Jonathan Zakin Goldie Hawn u P a s t H o n o r e e s

Commencement Speakers Alumni Honorees 1990 June Wayne 2000 Army Archerd 1991 Bella Lewitzky 2001 Louis J. Horvitz 1992 Jack Valenti 2003 Moctesuma Esparza 1993 2004 Gregory Nava 1994 Peter Guber 2005 Geoffrey Gilmore 1995 Quincy Jones 2007 Gene Reynolds 1996 Debbie Allen 2008 Fred Roos 1997 Warren Littlefield 2009 Ellen Geer 1998 John Frankenheimer 2010 Felicia D. Henderson 1999 Annette Bening 2010 John Rando 2000 Joe Roth 2011 Charles Burnett 2001 2011 Mariska Hargitay 2002 2012 Shirley Jo Finney 2003 Terry Semel 2012 Penelope Spheeris 2004 Sherry Lansing 2013 2005 Fay Kanin 2013 Kristin Hanggi 2006 George C. Wolfe 2014 Darren Star 2007 2014 Wendy C. Goldberg 2008 Colin Callender 2015 Donna Deitch 2009 2015 Sarabeth Grossman 2010 Peter Guber Chancellor’s Medal 2011 U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer 1993 James Earl Jones 2012 Ron Meyer 1994 Francis Ford Coppola 2013 Cathy Schulman 1995 Quincy Jones 2014 Jane Fonda 1996 2015 Kevin Beggs 1998 Edie Wasserman Commencement Dedication 2002 2012 2005 Sir 2006 Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. UCLA Medal 2009 Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. A c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

Producer Daniel A. Ionazzi, Jr.

Production Management Kellie Knight, Bridget Kelly

Announcer Jeff Wachtel

Audio Supervisor Jonathan Burke

UCLA Gluck Brass Quintet Jon Bhatia, Luis Cardenas Casillas – Trumpets Rachel O’Connor – Horn Josiah Morales – Trombone Seth Shaffer – Tuba

Commencement Coordinators Dean Dacumos, Sandy Hall, Daniel A. Ionazzi, Jr., Crystal Santana

Special Thanks Academic Personnel Business Office Dean’s Office Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Department of Theater Information Technology Marketing and Communications Office of Development & Alumni Affairs Office of Special Events and Protocol Royce Hall Events Student Services

RECEPTION FOR THEATER, FILM & TELEVISION (Coral Tree Walk)

Coral Tree Walk

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY (Royce Hall)

“Hail to the hills of Westwood to the mighty sea below; Hail to our alma mater, she will conquer every foe. For we’re loyal to the Southland, her honor we’ll uphold, We’ll gladly give our hearts to thee, to the Blue and to the Gold.”

— Jeane Emerson ’29