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May 2022
 
TFT's 2022 Musical Theater Class 

Class of 2022 Virtual Student Showcases 
 
They're ready for their spotlights! Guided by the Department of Theater, our graduating student actors have created websites that feature their performances, resumes and headshots as they seek professional representation to further their careers. Take a look at the work of our MFA student actors, undergraduate student actors and musical theater student actors.
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In the News
 
Destruction in Art,
Art in Destruction


What is the connection between destroying a piano and history’s unreliable narrative? Distinguished professor Chon Noriega will explain when he gives the 131st Faculty Research Lecture, a virtual event entitled “Destruction in Art, Art in Destruction,” on Thursday, April 28. Noriega’s lecture focuses on the life and work of artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz, founder of the 1960s destructivist art movement, who has used destruction as an art form grounded in ritual, psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Read more
 Felicia Lasala  

The Return, written and directed by Hena Ashraf (MFA ’21) and Beauty Queen, written and directed by Myra Aquino (MFA ’20) will screen at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, taking place May 5-13.

The FX miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, created by Dustin Lance Black (BA ’96), debuted April 28 on Hulu.

Professor Myung Hee Cho and Lecturer Aaron Rhyne are the scenic designer and projection designer, respectively, for the Broadway production of For Colored Girls, which opened April 20.

Professor Lap Chi Chu, and alumnae Hana S. Kim (MFA ’12), Ava Lalezarzadeh (BA ’20) and Yee Eun Nam (MFA ’14) have been nominated for Lucille Lortel Awards.


Graduate student DJ Hills has been named one of Take Ten’s 2022 MFA Playwrights.

Sullivan Jones (BA ’10), has been upped to series regular for the second season of the HBO Max series The Gilded Age.

David Koepp (BA ’90) has teamed with director Kathryn Bigelow and Netflix for the thriller Aurora, based on his novel.

Graduate student Julie Piscina directed "So Worth It," a commercial spot for the launch of DoorDash’s DashPass for Students membership program.

Michael Stuhlbarg stars with Colin Firth and Toni Collette in the HBO Max miniseries The Staircase, debuting May 6.
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UCLA TFT is proud to be a sponsor of the inaugural Mexican-American Film and Television Festival & Awards presented by the Mexican-American Cultural Education Foundation (MACEF), at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, May 14 and 15. TFT Executive Board member Moctesuma Esparza (BA ’71, MFA ’73) will receive the event’s Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Edward James Olmos and Luis Valdez. This year’s theme is  “Honoring the Illustrious Past and Celebrating a Bright Future.”
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Acting and Performance • Camera Acting • Content Creation and Scriptwriting • Costume Design Innovation • Live Performance and Media Musical Theater • Stage Management • Voice Over and Camera Acting

 
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