FILM THEATRE VISUAL ARTS WRITINGFind Your Place Columbia University School of internationally renowned artists, film and theatre directors, writers of poetry, "Columbia is such a the Arts is an innovative graduate fiction, and nonfiction, playwrights, professional school with a tradition welcoming institution. producers, critics, and scholars. of risk-taking, grounded in a deeply intellectual university I’m so grateful to be Ivy League In 2015, the School marked the 50th and energized by our location in New here, to be in the heart Anniversary of its founding. In 2017, York City—one of the great cultural the School opened the Lenfest of New York and be capitals of the world. The study and Center for the Arts, a multi-arts venue at such a prestigious practice of art-making at the School designed as a hub for the presentation is an immersive, constantly evolving and creation of art across disciplines institution. It’s really on the University’s new Manhattanville process. Aspiring, emerging, or campus. a diverse university: I established, our filmmakers, writers, theatre practitioners, and visual would definitely tell Columbia University is a diverse artists grow individually through academic community of more than a prospective student intensive engagement with their craft 40,000 students, faculty, and staff to choose Columbia and lively, profound exchanges of from across the nation and the world, living and learning on dynamic for the artistry, and to ideas and work. campuses in a great, global city. become a master of Columbia University School of the Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts their craft." degree in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and and the Master of Arts CHRISTIAN GOODIE Writing >> FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ACTING '20 degree in Film and Media Studies; GRADUATE ADMISSIONS: arts.columbia.edu/ it also offers an interdisciplinary admissions program in Sound Art. The School is a thriving, diverse community of talented, visionary, and committed artists from around the world and a faculty comprised of acclaimed and Photo by Steve Johnson via Unsplash. Columbia University School of the Arts offers students the opportunity to go to film school at one of the world's great universities, with a faculty of Film working professionals esteemed in both Hollywood and the independent film community. Our home is New York City, one of the creative capitals of the world, affording access to exceptional talent pools and locations, major research collections, and the opportunity to see films from every country and era at venues dedicated to film culture. Our "My last film screened degree programs are populated by top students at around 70 festivals from around the world, and our curriculum fosters cutting-edge creativity, intellectual rigor, and around the world. I hands-on practicality. couldn’t have made The Film MFA program is among the world's my film without the premiere training grounds for emerging filmmakers, renowned for the global success of its alumni in film Program, and Columbia and television, including top prizes at Sundance, has given me so many Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and the Academy Awards. The Film and Media Studies MA program gives opportunities moving students a unique opportunity to study film history forward. It’s life- and theory in the midst of an active filmmaking community. changing for sure." MFA PROGRAMS NELICIA LOW > Screenwriting/Directing SCREENWRITING/DIRECTING '18 > Creative Producing MA PROGRAM > Film and Media Studies Photo by Steven Van via Unsplash. FACULTY Bogdan Apetri Annette Insdorf Blair Singer Rania Attieh Jamal Joseph June Stein Ramin Bahrani Tom Kalin Lance Weiler Nico Baumbach Rob King Andy Bienen David Klass >> FOR A LIST OF Hilary Brougher, Chair Christina Lazaridi ADJUNCT FACULTY AND RECENT GUEST Ira Deutchman Jack Lechner LECTURERS VISIT: Katherine Dieckmann Eric Mendelsohn arts.columbia.edu/ film-faculty Trey Ellis Ian Olds Jane M. Gaines Richard Peña Bette Gordon Maureen A. Ryan Ron Gregg James Schamus ALUMNI Gina Atwater Annemarie Jacir Madeleine Olnek Albert Berger Phil Johnston Kimberly Peirce Kathryn Bigelow Jimmy Keyrouz Mark Raso Lisa Cholodenko Bora Kim Laura Ricciardi Robert Cristiano Simon Kinberg Lisa Rubin FALL 2020 ADMISSION Cherien Dabis Andrew Stephen Lee Saim Sadiq DEADLINES Moira Demos Jennifer Lee Shrihari Sathe Film MFA Program: Dina Emam James Mangold Sandi Tan December 3, 2019 Kurt Enger Greg Mottola Chris Teague Film and Media Studies MA Program: February 4, 2020 Nicole Holofcener Olivia Newman Suzi Yoonessi Rachel Israel Ben Odell Sameh Zoabi >> APPLY.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Graduates from our MA program have gone on to >> FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR ALUMNI: doctoral research at Harvard University, New York University, Princeton University, University of arts.columbia.edu/film-alumni California-Berkeley, UCLA, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, Yale, and Kings College, London, among many others. They have also pursued careers as film archivists, critics, festival and repertory theater programmers, and distributors. Photo by Jakob Owens via Unsplash. Columbia University’s MFA Theatre Program is collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary. It defines itself by its location in New York City. It THEATRE thrives on the extensive network of Columbia alumni and faculty who work in prestigious theatres at every level, who direct and perform in award-winning productions, and who engage with our students far beyond the classroom. "You look at work that fires The Theatre MFA program seeks students who have people up. And enrages the talent, vision, and commitment to become exceptional artists. At the School of the Arts, students people and excites people. interact with the leading , , creators practitioners And that’s the kind of work producers, and analysts of today’s theatre, acquiring rigorous training rooted deeply in the classics, you get here at Columbia." while exploring new forms and the cutting edge of DAVID FIERRO theatrical art. The best theatre across all times and ACTING '11 cultures has not only reflected, but has also shaped its society. At its best, theatre helps point society to its best future. Columbia’s MFA Theatre Program aims to train theatre artists to fulfill that important role in today’s society. MFA PROGRAMS > Acting > Directing > Dramaturgy > Playwriting The Death of the Last Black Man-in the Whole Entire World26 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by > Stage Management Jeffrey Page '19, with Anthony Pratt ’20. > Theatre Management & Producing Lighting Design by Eric Norbury, Scenic Design by Ramaj Jamar, Costume Design by Sabrina Bianca Guillaume, Sound Design > Theatre JD/MFA by Kimberly S. O'Loughlin, Hair & Make-Up Design by Marilyn “Cookie” Jordan. Photo by Jill Jones. FALL 2020 ADMISSION DEADLINES FACULTY Theatre Directing: Arnold Aronson Christian Parker December 3, 2019 Anne Bogart Michael J. Passaro All other concentrations: James Calleri Blair Singer January 7, 2020 Steven Chaikelson Ron Van Lieu >> FOR A LIST OF >> APPLY.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Peter Jay Fernandez Lance Weiler ADJUNCT FACULTY AND RECENT GUEST Liz Hayes W. B . Wo r t h e n LECTURERS VISIT: David Henry Hwang arts.columbia.edu/ theatre-faculty David Klass Brian Kulick, Chair Sita Mani Charles L. Mee Lynn Nottage ALUMNI Ito Aghayere Kia Corthron Robert O’Hara Saheem Ali Nana Dakin Diane Paulus David Wilson Barnes Kareem Fahmy Tyne Rafaeli Jocelyn Bioh David Fierro Jay Scheib Jeremy Blocker Michel Hausmann Ken Rus Schmoll Hammaad Chaudry Anchuli Felicia King Darko Tresnjak Rachel Chavkin Yue Liu Beau Willimon Lauren Cipoletti Hal Luftig Barbara Whitman Carl Cofield K.K. Moggie Rachel Zucker Clarence Coo Anson Mount Blue Window, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll '00, with Gabrielle Greer '16, Folami Williams '16, Brynne McManimie '16 and Nico Kiefer '16. Lighting Design by Yuki Nakase, >> FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR ALUMNI: Scenic Design by Kimie Nishikawa, Costume Design by Kirche Leigh arts.columbia.edu/theatre-alumni Zeile, Sound Design by Elliot Davoren. Photo by Carol Rosegg. The Visual Arts Program attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, working alongside an Visual Arts exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research + institution in New York City. Sound Art The two-year studio program is interdisciplinary and offers an MFA degree in Visual Arts rather than in one specific medium. Taught by internationally celebrated artists, students pursue moving image, "Columbia is truly an new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Students have many opportunities interdisciplinary program. to expand the depth and complexity of their studio It allows me to move practice as well as their ability to think critically in the context of contemporary art theory. To that across mediums with zero end, students have regular studio visits with full- resistance, and unexpected time and adjunct faculty, who offer critical insight into both the form and underlying ideas of students’ trajectories emerge from this work. Students are encouraged to take electives fluidity. The program also outside of the program to develop a broad base of art history and theory upon which to build a solid grants me access to other and provocative studio practice. departments such as the For more information on the Visual Arts curriculum: > ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU/VA-CURRICULUM natural sciences, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. The MFA Sound Art program, offered in association with the Visual Arts MFA Program, the Department These classes