NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Dates: July 9 - August 2, 2026 Location: The Tank, 312 W 36th St, New York, NY, 10018 Ilana Khanin (MA '17) is directing the world premiere of Eric Marlin's What a World! What a World! at The Tank in New York City. The play runs through August 2, 2026. The 1943 melodrama The Pearl of My Oyster could be a camp masterpiece, an erotic transfixion, a flicker of joy amidst utter terror, or it might just be a dumb old movie.

Grad Film MFA candidate Anooya Swamy and Alumni Joecar Hanna and Oliver McGoldrick were selected as part of the 2026 Locarno Filmakers Academy. This ten-day intensive program for emerging filmmakers was created to meet the needs of a generation of filmmakers who will face new challenges in terms of producing and distributing their work. Read more at Locarno Festival.

, written and directed by Grad Film MFA candidate Ana A. Alpizar, produced by MFA candidate Madeline Finkel, and cinematography by MFA candidate Yuqian Zhang, won the Student Category at the 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards. Logline: ​​A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realizes he isn’t as idyllic as he seems. Ana A. Alpizar is a Cuban filmmaker based in New York.

Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026 Time: Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm (90 minutes, no intermission) Where: Caveat — 21A Clinton Street, New York, NY 10002 Dress Code: Denim. Denim — not mandatory, but join the fun! Lukas Woodyard (Performance Studies MA '20) is producing a new cabaret with their collective, Out of Order.

Congratulations to Media Producing alumna Kay Gunn (M.A. ’26) for her film Death By Chocolate being selected as a Semi-Finalist for NY Indie Shorts Film Awards. What originally started as an idea and then a thesis project for the Media Producing program, Kay said Death by Chocolate was treated as a ‘film with potential’. Read below for more from Kay about the film and the process of making the film and getting it to the festival. What is Death By Chocolate about?

Does the memory make a home, or the house makes a memory? How do we remember the place that no longer exists? PS Alumni Chloe Lee (M.A. ‘22) developed her Performance Studies course (Performing Memories) final project into a solo performance titled, "home", in Seoul, South Korea. Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, this performance interweaves intergenerational memories centering around her family home with the modern history of Korea.

A painting by George Kan (PS MA '18, current PhD candidate) has been selected by the Royal Academy of Arts in London to be included in this year's Summer Exhibition. The exhibition is open at Burlington House and is co-ordinated by Royal Academician Ryan Gander. Works include recent painting, sculpture, and architecture by Academicians, notable figures, emerging artists, and other members of the public.

Grad Film MFA Candidate and AnnaRose King Award recipient Sin Young Kim was recently selected for the 2026 CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund with her debut feature screenplay, BETTER NOT. Presented by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), CJ Cultural Foundation, and KOFIC, the prestigious development program supports emerging Korean and Korean American filmmakers through mentorship, industry guidance, and feature development. Kim is one of eight filmmakers selected for the 2026 cohort.

PS alum Mateo Rodriguez-Hurtado (M.A. '20) interviewed Dr. Sandra Ruiz (PS M.A. and Ph.D) on her latest book, Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor (NYU Press 2025). The conversation titled, "From vials of tears to vales of vestiges: A slanted grief jam session on Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor" was published this summer by Women & Performance.

Grad Film MFA candidate Einav Nitzani is the 2025-2026 recipient of the AnnaRose King Award for Comedic Storytelling for her film . Einav Nitzani is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker currently pursuing her MFA in Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Drawn to stories that balance comedy and heartbreak, her work explores identity, intimacy, and the emotional contradictions people carry through their relationships.