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School of the Arts News
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Bright's class featured in Boston Globe
A course called Development and Production of the Situation Comedy, taught by Trustee and Visual and Media Arts Executive Artist-in-Residence Kevin Bright, was profiled recently by the Boston Globe’s Christopher Muther.
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Emerson and Writers Guild of America partner
Five Emerson College students have been selected for a Mentoring Program with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) Foundation for screenwriting, television writing, and playwriting.
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Career Week events prepare students for jobs
Career Week 2011 offered a roster of events aimed at helping students plan for their professions post-Emerson.
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Emerson College Los Angeles moving forward
In a letter to the Emerson community, President Lee Pelton and Board of Trustees Chair Jeffrey Greenhawt announced that the College is moving forward with the construction of the Emerson College Los Angeles (ECLA) academic center.
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Less than a decade after his graduation from Emerson, Todd Strauss-Schulson '03 has directed his first feature film, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas. He collaborated with several other Emersonians on the film.
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Fields' documentary on the banjo to air Friday
The national broadcast premiere of Visual and Media Arts Associate Professor Marc Fields’s documentary Give Me the Banjo will air Friday (November 4) at 9:00 pm on PBS. It will be shown as part of a new series called PBS Arts Fall Festival.
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Jaen to give advice on professional portfolios
Performing Arts faculty member and Emerson Costume Shop Supervisor Rafael Jaen will give tips on creating winning portfolios for theater, film, and the allied arts, and sign copies of his new book on that topic at two events open to the Emerson community on Wednesday.
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VMA students bring home awards
Two Visual and Media Arts students were honored in October at two separate film festivals, one for a screenplay pitch, and one for a documentary film.
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