Cinema Theatre News

Check out the Arts and Science feature on Theatre and our senior Mackenna Guadagnoli (class of 2026)!… Read More

Welcome to the VUT’s Student Works Festival application process! We’re excited to showcase the creativity and talent of our students. Interested in working as a designer for the Student Works Festival? Fill out the following google form link: https://forms.gle/cD7xojQo8aVhUy2r7. This form will close on Friday, Nov 1st, 2024. Please… Read More

Nashville, TN (April 2024) – Vanderbilt University’s Theatre Department proudly presents its 2024-2025 season lineup: The Eco Grief Plays, DORES TO THE PAST, Student Works Festival, and She Kills Monsters. Kicking off the fall semester, immerse yourself in four groundbreaking plays delving into eco-grief, the complex range of emotions… Read More

This past Reunion weekend, the Theatre department hosted three alumni for a roundtable discussion titled “Cultivating Careers from Theatre Skills.” Laura Payne (’14), Julie Jones (’17), and Isabelle Mann (’17) spoke with students about their experiences with VUTheatre, what they learned, and how they continue to use those skills today… Read More

Ibby Cizmar, assistant professor of theatre, recently published Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family (Routledge 2023). The book represents the culmination of many years of archival and ethnographic research into the actor-director’s career. Cizmar establishes McClintock as a leading figure of the Black Theatre Movement,… Read More

The Vanderbilt Hustler reports on the launch of a scholarship aimed to eliminate financial barriers for students interested in pursuing summer media internships in Los Angeles. Richard Hull (‘92), who co-founded the internship program with fellow alumnus Chad Gervich (‘96) in 2006,… Read More

Check out this CNN article featuring an interview with our own Claire King on celebrity/fame/et c. Read More

CMA is celebrating the publication of a special double issue of the Journal of Literature and Science edited by Prof Claire Sisco King and Prof Jay Clayton. It features nine open access articles exploring how literature, film, TV, and social media shape public attitudes toward genetic privacy. Read More

During the last spring break in 2023, six theatre students traveled to New York City with Christin Essin, associate professor of theatre, and Krista Knight, writer-in-residence of cinema and media arts, to see a range of theatre offerings and meet with department alumni. In addition to touring the new Museum… Read More

The Cinema & Media Arts community is excited welcome celebrated media creator Jad Abumrad to our department! From Vanderbilt’s official announcement – “Jad Abumrad, a public radio icon, podcast pioneer and founder of Radiolab, will join Vanderbilt University to lead and advise on several… Read More

8/20/21 Congratulations to Prof Jonathan Waters!… Read More

5/21/21 Congratulations, Krista Knight!… Read More

“Each year, Variety curates a list of the top film school programs and film school educators both in the United States and abroad. This year, as the COVID-19 crisis continues unabated, most film and digital arts programs worldwide relied on online models of instruction. But in the midst of this… Read More

CMA professor Jonathan Rattner is the featured artist in the December issue of the prestigious on-line venue, Docalogue! Docalogue is an exclusive on-line venue that features one documentary film/ filmmaker a month. Check it out here – https://docalogue.com/… Read More

Writer in Residence in Theatre Krista Knight is taking a creative twist on COVID-19 protocols by teaching her Introduction to Writing for Stage and Screen course in an online, virtual reality world. Read More

CONGRATS TO CMA ALUM BILL BADI Director Bill Badi’s new short, “Smother,” just won Best Picture at the Johannesburg 48 Hour Film Project! They also won awards for Best Writing, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Costume & Makeup, Best Cinematography, and Best Directing. “Smother” was nominated in six… Read More

Professor Alejandro Acierto of CMA and the Art Department is showcasing some of his recent work! First, his work is part of a large exhibition called “After Life (We Survive) – viewable from outside at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The exhibition asks “how can new media, visual… Read More

Here’s a message from our friends at Vandy-In-Hollywood about their upcoming events! Hey, everyone — First of all wanted to give a huge thanks to everyone who turned out for last week’s inaugural event of the Vandy-in-Hollywood Virtual Screening & Speaker Series —writer/director Sam Friedlander’s “Babysplitters!” We had a great… Read More

CMA faculty member and VU Theatre playwright in residence Krista Knight leads students in an adventure in screenwriting. Exploring narrative, action, and acting, the students write, share, critique, and perform for their peers. To find out more, please take a look at our Course Listings… Read More

Wonderful news! It has been announced that Jennifer Fay won the Chancellor’s Prize, given recognition of outstanding research for her book, Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (2018, Oxford University Press). … Read More