December 2020 - UCLA School of TFTUCLA School of TFT

December 2020

Ove Topfer

Happy Holidays!
All of us at UCLA TFT wish you a healthy and joyous holiday season. May you be renewed and refreshed. We're looking forward to the new year!

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Acting Up

Have you seen them? Our MFA actors are performing excerpts from six prominent playwrights including Anna Deveare Smith (Twilight: Los Angeles 1992) and Brandon Jacobs Jenkins (Gloria). All the readings are available online for viewing. [Find out more]

Thinking Out of the Box

In her award-winning essay, Danielle A. D. Howard, a Theater and Performance Studies PhD candidate, uses themes of Afrofuturism to examine the amazing story of Henry Box Brown, a former slave-turned-showman. [Read more]

Where Are You?

Professor Marike Splint’s virtual performance You Are Here, commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, is available online. You Are Here invites you on a road trip around the world via Google Earth. Filmed with a live Zoom audience as part of the piece’s development. [ Watch here]

Opera As Cinema

Director James Darrah (MFA ’10), recently appointed as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Creative Director of Digital Content, “wants audiences to see opera through the cinematic eyes of Hollywood.” [Read more]

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In Other News...

HBO

Veteran actor Larry Cedar (MFA ’78) recently guest starred on the CBS hit, Young Sheldon.

Eric Hoehn (BA ’13) sound designer and re-recording mixer for the Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit, discusses his work on the project and the future of post-production sound.

Tom Musca (MFA ’81) is the writer and director of the comedy Chateau Vato, now playing on HBO Latino and streaming on HBO Max.

Gina Prince-Bythewood (BA ’91) will be honored at the 2020 New York Women in Film and Television's Muse Awards.

Maggie Rose (BA ’12) was a finalist in the 2020 Austin Film Festival writing competition for the play Ten Minutes on the 101.

Nick Spicer (MFA ’06), Aram Tertzakian (MFA ’07) and Ulrich Schwarz (MFA ’06) are producers and Nate Bolotin (MFA ’07) is an executive producer on the sci-fi survival thriller Stowaway, which was recently picked up by Netflix.

Beatrice Springborn (MFA ’05) has been named president of Universal Content Productions (UCP).

The work of George Wade (BA ’79), an industry leader in the world of location-based entertainment, is featured in this InPark Magazine article.

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